@duckdb Check out the original post, «Building with Bluesky: Inside the New Open Social Network», on the topic of open social networks.
https://t.co/ePt3vmJpo0
HIRING: a research associate to help us advocate for Ethereum & DeFi in Europe:
TLDR:
- Data reports on:
- - Decentralization & DeFi taxonomy
- - Tokenization & Stablecoins
- - European Ethereum ecosystem
- Ideally an enrolled student
- Part-time under @EuEthInstitute
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Imagine thinking Vitalik can pump the price of the most decentralized and secure network in existence.
CT simping for people like SBF, Justin Sun, Do Kwon, Arthur Hayes, Ansem etc. while the future financial rails are being built on ETH.
Still deeply unserious industry.
the zama founder just said the quiet part out loud.
"any contract holding freezable assets could have the same issue. this includes defi, staking, bridges." he just admitted the exact threat model. the entire fiat defi stack is just one subpoena away from a protocol-wide freeze.
"court hearing on monday... stay tuned!" telling your users to grab popcorn for a federal hearing to see if they can access their liquidity is absolute comedy.
Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas
Dark Bio whitepaper is out!
We're building a system in which a person's health data, their genome most of all, no longer has to live with a custodian to be useful. A system, where data does not move, rather stays on a small device the owner holds.
engagement down? try this:
wtf is happening at the EF
ethereum is cooked
how can they f*king leave
people have stopped believing in ethereum
there is something wrong
they know something
These guys move like Anthropic but in crypto.
@DefiLlama just announced @defillama_res. They ship so fast that each launch basically obsoletes someone's entire business model.
I'm certain this becomes the go-to research platform soon. Hard for others to compete when you own the data pipes.
This isn't bad for the space. It forces everyone else to get sharper or die.
The professional bar just went up again.
i realized this just now, but web3 games should generally have low supply NFT collections
i made the mistake of making prior items too accessible / too high supply
but people want that rarity, they want things to trade on secondary. they want limited edition, more premium stuff
this is how web3 games can differentiate from web2
also @dungeonclaw was clever in how we collabed. we have two separate items for each game, and to mint them you need the currency of the other game, ie use $DCLAW to mint the DOTA item, and $DOTA to mint the DCLAW item
this produces new holders for both tokens 😁
Thorchain has been hacked six times in five years, and not once the same way. Each one through a different layer of the architecture.
2021 - Smart contract bug in the ETH Router. Attackers tricked Bifrost into reading manipulated msg.value events. ~$15.5M across three exploits.
2022 - Validator software bug. Non-deterministic behavior across nodes triggered a 20-hour outage.
2023 - TSS keygen vulnerability. Devs admitted a malicious validator could have drained vaults during a prior key generation. Network halted preemptively.
2025 (Jan) - Economic design failure. THORFi's lending model required RUNE to keep outperforming BTC/ETH. It didn't. $200M trapped.
2025 (Sep) - Social engineering. DPRK ran a Telegram deepfake on co-founder JP, extracted his MetaMask keys from iCloud Keychain. $1.35M lost.
2026 - TSS cryptography flaw. A malicious validator exploited the GG20 implementation, leaked key material across signing sessions, reconstructed the vault key. $10.7M drained.
Plus: ~$605M of Bybit/Lazarus stolen funds laundered through in 2025. Validators voted to block, reversed under "code is law" pressure.
Six distinct vectors: smart contract code, validator software, TSS keygen, economic design, social engineering, TSS cryptography. ~$227M directly lost or trapped. The architecture keeps finding new ways to fail.