Anthony Bernal

Father. Equity Advocate. VC & Startup. Finance. Blockchain. Game Theory & Poker.
For Financial Modeling, Analytics, and Finance and Strategy Fractional role:

[Walker Deibel @walkerdeibel]

FanDuel sold for half a billion dollars.

But the founders got nothing.

After studying 250+ deals, I discovered the toxic terms that wiped out their equity.

Here's what every founder needs to know:

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I retired from my 9-5 cubicle job forever at 34.

• No savings/trust fund
• No selling drugs
• No mentors

Here are the basic ideas I used to retire early:

[Anthony Bernal @manilashark]

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[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

OpenAI just released its new AI model, OpenAI o1 (internally known as Project Strawberry/Q*)

The wait is finally over.

Here's the model coding an entire video game from a prompt 🤯

The model can think before it answers and is better at math and programming challenges.

The longer it thinks, the better it does on reasoning tasks.

The model also ranks in the 89th percentile on competitive programming questions (!) and correctly solved 83% in a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)

[Anthony Bernal @manilashark]

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[Min Choi @minchoi]

It's only been just about a week since Cursor got massive attention.

And people can't stop building with it.

10 wild examples:

[Meng To @MengTo]

My 8yo son built a Three.js site with zero coding experience

He used Claude AI and let Cursor apply all the code for him. He actually made several projects including 2 platformer games, a drawing app, an animation app and an AI chat app. ~2 hours spent on each. I only helped him set up Cursor, Git and Netlify.

Code is a design tool and you don’t even need to code anymore.

[Oguz Erkan @oguzerkan]

Bill Ackman is one of the best investors of our generation.

In the last five years, his fund returned 183% against 102% return of S&P 500.

Yesterday, I re-watched his 3 hours long interview with Lex Fridman.

Here are the 7 things you can't miss: 🧵
(No. 5 is critical)

[0xNobler @CryptoNobler]

🚨 I found a way to extract $150,000 from PumpFun!

Scammers use this method to make 1000+ $SOL per day and they'll be mad at me for leaking it.

It's highly effective and even experienced degens fall into the trap👇🧵

[Fernando Cao @thefernandocz]

The man who’s predicted the rise of EVERY social media:

Early investor in Facebook, Twitter and Slack.

And he just said “In 10 years, every company will be a media company”.

Gary Vee’s 5 predictions on the future of wealth creation (& why you should care):

[Anthony Bernal @manilashark]

@NoliEala We lost the defensive and offensive presence of Kai. The stoey could have been different if he is healthy just like the Latvia game.

[Atlas @crptAtlas]

This is Andrew Kang: one of the best crypto traders ever.

Starting from $0, he made 9 figs in his 20s.

After reading his current market thoughts, I was shocked.

Here're his trading strategy & market insights: ur key to the 1st million this cycle 👇 🧵

[CertiK @CertiK]

CertiK recently identified a series of critical vulnerabilities in @krakenfx exchange which could potentially lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

Starting from a finding in @krakenfx's deposit system where it may fail to differentiate between different internal transfer statuses, we conducted a thorough investigation with three key questions:

1/ Can a malicious actor fabricate a deposit transaction to a Kraken account?
2/ Can a malicious actor withdraw fabricated funds?
3/ What risk controls and asset protection might be triggered by a large withdrawal request?

According to our testing result: The Kraken exchange failed all these tests, indicating that Kraken’s defense in-depth-system is compromised on multiple fronts. Millions of dollars can be deposited to ANY Kraken account. A huge amount of fabricated crypto (worth more than 1M+ USD) can be withdrawn from the account and converted into valid cryptos. Worse yet, no alerts were triggered during the multi-day testing period. Kraken only responded and locked the test accounts days after we officially reported the incident.

Upon discovery, we informed Kraken, whose security team classified it as Critical: the most serious classification level at Kraken.

After initial successful conversions on identifying and fixing the vulnerability, Kraken’s security operation team has THREATENED individual CertiK employees to repay a MISMATCHED amount of crypto in an UNREASONABLE time even WITHOUT providing repayment addresses.

In the spirit of transparency and our commitment to the Web3 community, we are going public to protect all users' security. We urge @krakenfx to cease any threats against whitehat hackers.

Together, we can face risks and safeguard the future of Web3. #Web3 #Security #Transparency

[Zama @zama]

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[Anthony Bernal @manilashark]

@mr_inv_007 @OatLayer2 Have you invested in a project? Relentless fudding is unconscionable for us existing investors. The dev has delivered what they have promised. This is not a pump-and-dump scheme. The project is only 3 weeks since launch. Stop being unreasonable!