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[BenJamin Steele @Benn_Bullish]

A rocket company just did more daily volume on a crypto exchange than most FTSE stocks manage in a month. SpaceX, gold, silver, OpenAI — all trading as tokens now. Asset classes are dead. Vibes are the new portfolio theory.

#Tokenisation

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Dead protocol. Live funds. $2.19 million gone.

Aztec Connect — a DeFi privacy bridge shut down in March 2023 — was exploited yesterday for $2.19M. The attacker drained 909 ETH, 270,000 DAI, 167 wstETH, and other tokens across seven separate withdrawals.

Here's the kicker: Aztec Labs knew it was coming and could do absolutely nothing about it.

The contracts are fully immutable. The team discarded their admin keys when they deprecated the protocol. There is no pause button, no upgrade path, no emergency response. When Aztec Labs posted their incident statement, all they could say was: "holds no admin keys or control over the system; it cannot be paused."

The attacker pre-funded via Tornado Cash — then found a verification-settlement mismatch in the ZK proof logic. The contract credited them with balances that didn't exist. Then they withdrew them. Then they did it again. Seven times.

Three years after shutdown. The vulnerability sat there the whole time. The funds sat there the whole time. The only variable was when someone clever enough would notice.

This is what "immutable" actually means in DeFi. It's not just a feature. It's a countdown clock.

🔗🧵👇

#DeFi #Ethereum

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

Ethereum's top predator just became prey. 🕷️

Jaredfromsubway.eth — the MEV bot behind 70% of all Ethereum sandwich attacks — has been drained of $15M after an attacker turned the bot's own automated logic against it.

Here's how it went down: the attacker spent weeks deploying 66 fake token contracts that mimicked WETH, USDC, and USDT, paired with fake liquidity pools designed to look like profitable sandwich opportunities. The bot took the bait every time, automatically granting the attacker's helper contracts approval to spend its tokens — a standard step in its sandwich workflow.

Once enough approvals had accumulated across all 66 contracts, the attacker executed a single devastating transaction that called every backdoor simultaneously, sweeping the bot's entire treasury in one block. WETH, USDC, USDT — all gone. Some funds have already been routed through Tornado Cash.

The kicker? This bot has been so prolific it even sandwich-attacked Vitalik Buterin in May. It's caused an estimated $60M in annual losses to Ethereum traders, running 60,000-90,000 attacks per month. And the operator's response? A dismissive tweet: "You guys seriously think $15M is a big deal for me?" 😂

If one attacker can weaponise a bot's own approval logic using 66 fake contracts, the entire MEV extraction model is built on dangling approvals and blind trust. The hunter's playbook was its undoing — and every other MEV bot should be terrified.

The predator became the prey. #DeFi

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

Anthropic just begged the world to stop building AI. 🚨

The company — valued at nearly $1 trillion after raising $65B — published internal data this week showing Claude now writes over 80% of its production code. That's up from single digits in early 2025. Their engineers ship 8× more code per quarter than they did between 2021 and 2024. Claude achieves 52× optimisation speedups on complex tasks.

And it gets wilder. Open-ended engineering task success rates jumped from 26% to 76% in just six months. That's not incremental improvement — that's a phase change. Anthropic says recursive self-improvement — AI building its own successor — could arrive within two years.

So what's their solution? A globally coordinated pause on frontier AI development. Verifiable agreements between the US, China, and allies to slow everything down before it spirals.

Sounds noble. Except for the timing.

Anthropic just filed for IPO. They've raised $65B. They're approaching a $1T valuation. David Sacks called it regulatory capture dressed as altruism — and he's not wrong. You don't build the fastest AI on Earth, raise more capital than most countries' GDP, file to go public, and then tell everyone else to stop.

This isn't safety. It's the biggest "pull up the ladder" move in tech history. The fox isn't guarding the henhouse — it built the henhouse, ate the hens, and is now writing the food safety regulations.

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

Florida just became the first US state to sue OpenAI — and they're not pulling punches.83 pages of allegations:

ChatGPT aided mass shooters, coached suicides, and addicted children. Sam Altman is personally liable.

This isn't a regulatory slap. It's an existential threat. Full story 🔗👇

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An AI-powered fortune-telling crypto project just lost $15M to hackers.

The irony? It uses ancient Chinese divination to "predict" market moves — but couldn't see a fraudulent signature in its own multisig.

Here's what happened 🧵👇

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

A Google security engineer used confidential search data to go 25 for 25 on Polymarket — banking $1.2M before the FBI showed up.

This is only the second-ever federal insider trading case on a prediction market.

Full story 👇

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History rhymes. Gates bought QDOS for $50K, rebranded it MS-DOS, and his mum's board connection to IBM's chairman got him the deal. Built a monopoly off someone else's code and a handshake. Now it's OpenAI building the tech whilst Apple controls the tap. Different era, same moves💀

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OpenAI is fighting Apple, Elon Musk, Congress, and 24 wrongful death suits — all at the same time.

Our latest deep dive breaks down the $6.5B partnership implosion and what it means for AI's biggest power struggle. 👇

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

OpenAI and Apple were supposed to dominate the AI era together.

Now the $6.5B partnership is reportedly collapsing into legal threats, broken promises and a full-scale power struggle over the future of AI devices. 💀

This is no longer a partnership.
It’s an AI cold war.
See thread below 🧵👇

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[BenJamin Steele @Benn_Bullish]

$900K revenue. $406M crypto losses. Devin Nunes is gone. Stock down 90%. And somehow this company is still listed. You genuinely couldn't write a worse corporate treasury strategy if you tried. 💀

[BenJamin Steele @Benn_Bullish]

127,271 BTC seized. Forced-labour camps. A Cambodian lord advising the PM. @BullishTimes_ just dropped the full breakdown on the biggest crypto bust in history — and it reads like a Bond villain origin story. 🐷💀

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AI just built a working zero-day exploit. Not in a lab. Not a proof of concept. In the wild, targeting real systems. Google confirmed it yesterday. The age of machine-speed hacking has officially begun. 🧵👇

[Bullish Times @BullishTimes_]

$480 MILLION in LAB tokens just vanished into fresh wallets.

Now ZachXBT is accusing Bitget and a network of Chinese exchanges of operating like a coordinated cartel. 💀

Fresh wallets.
Massive token movements.
Zero transparency.
And retail traders are trapped in the middle.
If even half of these allegations are true, this could become one of the biggest exchange scandals of the cycle.
Full story in thread below 🧵👇

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Roaring Kitty's verified X account just got hijacked to promote a Solana memecoin — and it wiped $10M+ from retail traders in under an hour. Here's the full anatomy of the rug pull. 🧵👇

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