Aengus

No blockchain forensics team can beat a $5 wrench. What's actually protecting your Monero — the math, or your OPSEC?

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Bitget hack: Circle & Tether froze ~$339K of stablecoins linked to it.

Out of ~$387M.

That's the honest reality of "following the money": stablecoins can be frozen, ETH & BTC can't. Most stolen funds are never recovered. Anyone promising otherwise = red flag.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Bitget lost ~$387M and no private keys were stolen.

Attackers broke into a backend system, faked the transaction data, and let Bitget's own approval system sign off.

Not stealing the bank's keys. Forging the paperwork the bank trusts.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

@WazzCrypto @UniqueReborn Keep up the good work ... always happy to help ... security auditor here ... now standing on giants (AI agents) shoulders ... we need to secure that space back to OG days ... it has to be really decentralized play with real value ... not shitcoins craze

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

@WazzCrypto @UniqueReborn Before launch, the tool typically:

Builds an Address Lookup Table (ALT) containing the wallets, the token accounts to be created, and the program accounts. Versioned (v0) transactions can then refer to accounts by a 1-byte index instead of a 32-byte address.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

@WazzCrypto @UniqueReborn The disperser moves SOL from a main wallet into the generated wallets. A Solana transaction can hold many SystemProgram::transfer instructions, so one transaction can fund around 20 wallets.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

@WazzCrypto @UniqueReborn Traces left: a shared funding ancestor a few hops back, funding in a tight time window, amounts clustered in a range, and leftover balances that line up with fees plus rent.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Running agents to uncover such scams ...

[Ted @TedPillows]

Fomo and Pumpfun are mostly insider-driven plays, and 99% of people end up losing money.

Full extraction mode.

I don’t touch that garbage.

[Ted @TedPillows]

Fomo and Pumpfun are mostly insider-driven plays, and 99% of people end up losing money.

Full extraction mode.

I don’t touch that garbage.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Anyone interested in the report please contact me. Running automated agents that scan for such scams. $DEED #robinhood

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

Here's just an excerpt of the launches linked to this operation sorted by amount of money extracted

Curiously the launch that triggered this investigation ($DEED), doesn't even make it to the top 10 most money extracted here.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Told you so ...

[Furkan @_tuncfurkan]

Fomo adlı uygulamayı sildim nedenini çok basitçe açıklayım;

O sizin gördüğünüz 100K - 200K profitlerin hepsi yalan o kdumun fenomenleri düşük market cap’ten çıkarıyor ve timeline de paylaşarak pump’lıyorlar tokeni ( buna fomo ekibi de dahil ).

Ben yıllardır phantom bidget binance opensea gibi ve birçoğunu kullandım ve kesinlikle 1.2 günde veya 1 haftada 100.000$ - 200.000$ kazanan birine nadiren çok çok nadiren şahit olurum çünkü bu birkaç günde yeni çıkan bir token için gerçekleşmeyecek bir olay.

Burada sahte bir volume yaratıyorlar aslında bu insanlar senin benim al-sat yaptığım tokenlerden gelir kazanıyor çünkü; ( fenomenin giriş koduyla kullanıyorsun) .

Yani bize sattıkları bir proje değil bize ürün satıyorlar hemde sahte bir ürün ve ne yazık ki bu insanlardan birisi de benim

İşin daha komiğini ne biliyor musunuz o aanasını belli olmayan fenomenler sadece birkaç bin dolar için yapıyor bunu

Ben 50,100$ ile 50x,100x yapan normal bir yatırımcı görmedim çünkü sadece kendileri kazanıyor asla ama asla @fomo uygulamasını kullanarak bunlara destek olmayın.

Fomo’da birinci sırada olan @theunipcs bile içeriklerinde sürekli referans linkimi kullanın diye bağırıyor milyon dolarlar kazanıyorsun fakat ama senin bana sağlayacağın referans’a ihtiyacın var dimi :d yalana bak

Geçmişte @loshmi bu uygulamayı kullanıyordu fakat şuan kullanmıyor ve hepinizin bildiği üzere Loshmi sürekli trade yapan birisi ve neden birden fomo’yu bırakıp, Pumpfun’a yöneldi? Neden @waleswoosh gibi birisi fomo uygulamasını sildiğini açıkladı çünkü onlar da hepsinin bir yalan olduğunu biliyor

Biraz da bunu araştırmak lazım.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

@WazzCrypto All data is there ... let's do some "KYC" then ... stay tuned ...

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Learn your craft here ... be vigilant ...

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

I just uncovered the biggest serial Rugpulling and Extraction operation on Robinhood

The same operation is linked 53 launches within a 2 month period

Total Extracted: $18.43 MILLION

very likely more this is just what I could directly link

🧵

[Wazz @WazzCrypto]

I just uncovered the biggest serial Rugpulling and Extraction operation on Robinhood

The same operation is linked 53 launches within a 2 month period

Total Extracted: $18.43 MILLION

very likely more this is just what I could directly link

🧵

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

The exchange breach that actually hurts you isn't the one that steals funds. It's the one that leaks your name next to your holdings, years before anyone acts on it.

[fxyo @kingfxyo]

crypto is fucking wild

we built a financial system so we wouldnt have to trust anyone with our money

then we put it all on exchanges

word is that @bitget just got hacked for over ~$350m

praying nobody i know is affected

pretty timely reminder of what we were trying to fix

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Interesting ...

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

Developers just figured out a way to hide who sent bitcoin, who received it, and how much moved, without changing Bitcoin itself.

This new proposed idea is not a fork around the protocol or new cryptocurrency. This is how Bitcoin was designed, a base layer people can innovate on without asking permission.

On Thursday, researcher Misha Komarov and colleagues published Shielded Bitcoin, a Zcash-style shielded pool for Bitcoin’s base layer.

Encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs ride along in ordinary Bitcoin transactions. Separate software checks that no coins are created from nothing and none are spent twice.

There is no company running the pool, no sidechain, and no soft fork. Funds go in and out through cryptographic vaults Komarov has been building, called PIPEs, so no federation has to hold the bitcoin.

Miners do not enforce the privacy rules. Invalid shielded data can still land in a block, indexers simply ignore it.

The trade is: Bitcoin stays conservative, and the experiment lives on top of it. If it works, private transfers arrive the way most of Bitcoin’s best ideas have, not by rewriting the constitution, but by building on the settlement layer everyone already trusts.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Gold, meet privacy. 🪙

We're building Hush Bullion: a vault-backed gold token on Tari's Ootle.

Real bullion. Private transfers. A chain merge-mined with Monero.

More soon. 👀

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[Aengus @AengusWiz]

Synthetic gold backed by XMR collateral. This would work like a stablecoin: no vault, just XMR collateral and a price oracle. It needs smart contracts, so it would have to live on Tari or a future Monero L2. It's interesting as research, but I don't know of any working version.

[Aengus @AengusWiz]

An idea:
- tokenize gold using Monero ($XMR)
- any ideas ?

[Karel Mercx @KarelMercx]

The extra yield France has to pay over Germany on 10-year debt is going vertical.

If Politico is right and the US really imposes a 90-day diesel export ban, Europe is heading into a financial crisis.