Hellios🧪

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@getmoni_io OG
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[José Donato @josedonato__]

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[Stacy Muur @stacy_muur]

3 new DeFi protocols shut down yesterday.

Here's the full list

DeFi protocols that shut down in 2026 ↓

Jan 15: @milky_way_zone

Jan 24: @niftygateway

Jan 27: @SlingshotCrypto

Feb 13: @PolynomialFi

Feb 16: @zerolandxyz

Feb 19: @parsec_finance

Feb 23: @StepFinance_

Mar 4: @DataHaven_xyz

Mar 17: @tallyxyz

April 30: @DeFiCarrot

May 4: @phi_xyz

May 12: @legendapp

May 13: @code4rena

May 20: @fantasy_top_

May 21: @syndicateio

May 21: @EverclearOrg

May 21: @zerodotnetwork

DeFi is going through its biggest protocol cleansing event ever.

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

Important lesson from this one 👇

Renounced + LP burned still isn’t safe on V4 if the hook has hidden admin rights.

Dev quietly pulled almost 20 ETH.

Always verify the hook before aping.

[HONKAYO🧙‍♂️ @HONKA_YO]

UniV4 Pulp Fiction: How I Lost 0.156 $ETH

Chapter Three. "Bundle".
Let me start from the end. I'm staring at my wallet: a couple hundred thousand dead $HALO and 0.156 ETH that aren't coming back.

Not avg rugpull, not $rseth, not $mega. Not even thread-worthy. But I paid for the ticket and sat through the credits.

Chapter One. "Renounce".
May 19, 12:18 UTC. Somebody deploys the $HALO token. 36 seconds later, hook with 251 inscribed addresses. A minute after that, hook attached to the pool, Permit2 approved. Textbook. Frame. By. Frame.

13:59 drops 5.5 ETH into the position, mints the LP NFT. In the same block, 50 inscribed wallets pile in 38 ETH under a 3% buy-tax.

The bundle is so clean, so synchronized, so Tarantino, you want to cue up Stuck In The Middle With You and just watch.

Meanwhile I'm reading the chat. Someone posts: "renounced, LP burned, clean." I check — yep.

14:02 — token renounced onchain.
14:11 — LP NFT shipped to 0x...dead.
Burned his own position. What a hero.

I ape. 0.156 ETH dust by my usual size, but my last money, "let's see what happens." By the standards of this movie, exactly enough to be an extra in someone else's film.

Chapter Two. "Hook".
Renouncing the token doesn't touch the hook. They're two separate things. The token is an ERC-20. The hook is a separate contract sitting between the pool and traders, collecting tax. Admin on the hook stayed with the deployer.

14:23 — sweeps 3 ETH from the tax vault.
14:58 — sweeps 16.95 ETH. Almost 20 ETH in taxes went right back to wherever the inscribed wallets came from.

The play:
> Token renounced (everyone claps)
> LP burned (everyone claps louder)
> Hook still admin-controlled (nobody's looking)
> 20 ETH in taxes quietly extracted (too late)
Like selling your car, handing over the keys with a smile, then pulling a second set out of your pocket and driving off.

Chapter Four. "Counting the body".
If the 51 active inscribed wallets are one person (and they obviously are, no 51 random degens bundle that synchronously in one block), the math:

Bundle spent on buys — 43.8 ETH
Bundle received back — 68.2 ETH
Creator clawed back from position — 0.5 ETH
Minus initial liquidity — 5.5 ETH
Net from trading — 19.38 ETH
Net from tax sweeps — 19.95 ETH

Total realized — 39.33 ETH, plus 0.0076 ETH left sitting in the hook.

One more signal: 17.7 ETH moved from bundle wallets to three external addresses that then zeroed out. Classic one-hop sink. Real cash-out is higher.

Chapter Five. "What I learned".
Renounced ≠ safe. One door closed, the others still wide open.
V4 hooks are a new attack surface nobody's really watching. By habit, people check the token owner, mintable, blacklist. Meanwhile a hook with an admin sweepTax() sits off to the side and quietly skims 3% off every trade. Nobody renounces it. Technically it's a different contract.

LP burn looks great. Aesthetic. +30 IQ in the eyes of the chat. But if tax is collected before ETH ever hits the pool — and that's exactly how V4 hooks work — burning LP is just theater.

Chapter Six. "Grand Finale".
0.156 ETH. Cost of the lesson. Cheaper than a smart contract bootcamp, more expensive than a Nansen subscription.

Not angry. I'm almost impressed: clean execution, no rough edges. Renounce at the right moment, burn at the right moment, sweeps spaced so it doesn't look like panic. Not a 2021-style rugpull where the dev yanks the liquidity and runs. This one had staging. Smoke. A third act.

Next time, before I ape into a "renounced + LP burned" V4 token, I'll open the hook and read the code. Though honestly — we did. We just ignored it.

For now, a couple hundred thousand HALO collecting dust.

memento mori

Follow if you want more stories from the degen trenches.

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@getmoni_io In order of importance, in my opinion: A, D, B, C.

So I guess A if I had to choose one.

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Vibe coded my first project today!

Let me know what you guys think ❤️

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@kvzuobai @getmoni_io respect bro

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@UnitreeRobotics Gorilla mode activated when Karen cuts you off in traffic kek

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@getmoni_io @mqxoniwe lmao💜

[Moni 🧙‍♂️ @getmoni_io]

You still think it doesn't deserve your attention buddy?

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@getmoni_io

[HONKAYO🧙‍♂️ @HONKA_YO]

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[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@PrintBroCartel $GKC

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

Trenches are kinda slow rn, but some things still pop off from time to time

We keep finding them @PrintBroCartel
solana:G6mNZN8o16QBcTqfuEx6FzjiWa94B1XWhfyDxjDibrrr

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@PrintBroCartel solana:72Faue1uM8Nv7qc6KR47AoQFL27idbaBAwsatsmcsR2Z

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

lol

[kuno @kunoo]

This is still one of my favorite posts in Crypto 😂

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

@aixbt_agent

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

Just found something that actually feels different in the memecoin meta. $sato isn’t another standard pump coin it uses Uniswap v4 hooks to create a built-in bonding curve + reserve system.

Thread🧵

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

@hellios_og @PrintBroCartel solid eye on that entry. mechanics hold, now it's about how the attention spreads

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

When you get:
• Innovative token mechanics
• Smart money rotation
• Strong community conviction
• Clear narrative leadership
…you pay attention, as @aixbt_agent said, now it's about how the attention spreads.

$sato watch this one closely.

[Hellios🧪 @hellios_og]

Community sentiment (@ssshtggf) is strong.

They’re calling $sato a potential new DeFi primitive, one that could lock up serious ETH in its reserves.

Talk is also growing around the upcoming deflationary phase as it approaches total supply cap. Momentum is shifting.