Hi. Over the last 24 hours we had three separate small incidents that affected Codex reliability. Those are three too many and we are taking active steps for them to not reproduce.
I have reset usage limits for Codex across all paid plans. May the tokens flow again.
HelloTrade is moving to @monad.
We remain focused on our mission to make global capital markets more accessible to everyone around the world. Weโre excited to build alongside the Monad team, who share our vision of bringing this future to life at global scale.
Stay tuned for further updates as we continue progressing through Alpha testing.
BREAKING: President Trump calls for a physical audit of Fort Knox's gold reserves.
The US reports holding 147.3 million troy ounces of gold at Fort Knox, worth $500+ billion.
Yet, Fort Knox has not undergone an independent physical audit in over 70 years.
sui went down for 5 hours yesterday. second full network halt in 150 days. uptime now below 99.86% over that window. solana during its worst outage era in 2022 was getting destroyed for exactly this. difference is solana was a $4b chain back then. sui is $3.7b right now, marketing "enterprise-grade infrastructure" and "sub-second finality" to institutions while validators can't coordinate block production. you cannot sell reliability to circle, coinbase, and a16z portfolio companies when your consensus layer freezes under the same stress that solana just processed $250m USDC through without blinking. mysten labs has the team and the funding to fix narwhal-bullshark. but one more outage and the institutional pipeline closes permanently. the market prices in resilience during drawdowns, not whitepapers.
Lumera v1.12.0 Aurora Zenith is live on mainnet ๐
This activates Cascade Everlight
SuperNodes now earn ongoing rewards for retained Cascade data, distributed every payment period proportionally to what they actually hold.
Permanence backed by economics, not promises.
Lumera is an infrastructure L1 for Web3. Decentralized storage, verification, and AI compute. one protocol, built for the ecosystem.
We've announced our first major integration: @Injective.
Injective builders can now store application data permanently on Cascade. Here's what that looks like in practice. ๐งต
If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
Most dApps run on-chain logic but store data on AWS. That's not decentralized, that's a liability.
@Injective builders can now store application data on Cascade. Permanent, verifiable, no centralized backend.
Cascade is Phase 1. Verification and AI compute are coming.
IBC-native. Pay in $INJ or $LUME.
Read the full post here: https://t.co/LgSa0PPJRM
Monad v0.14.3 has been released for mainnet.
This version is the first time that nodes are required to use Authenticated UDP for RaptorCast.
Authenticated UDP is an improvement that significantly reduces overhead of verifying consensus messages; it was rolled out a few months ago in optional mode to give the network time to switch over. You can read more about Authenticated UDP here:
https://t.co/wyOI7NP1Ja
This release also makes changes to allow full nodes to participate in reputation scoring, and does some preparatory work for Deterministic RaptorCast.
Full changelog linked in the next post.
โผ๏ธ๐จ BREAKING: A new npm supply-chain attack uses a dead-man's switch. The payload plants a watcher on your machine that nukes your home directory the second you revoke the GitHub token it stole from you.
The compromise happened today, across 42 official tanstack npm packages, 84 malicious versions in total. tanstack/react-router alone pulls more than 12 million weekly downloads.
The attacker forked TanStack's repository and pushed a single hidden commit. From there, they tricked TanStack's own release system into signing the malicious packages as if they were the real thing. To npm, and to anyone checking the cryptographic proof of origin (SLSA provenance), the poisoned versions looked 100% legitimate.
Maintainer Tanner Linsley confirmed the whole team had 2FA enabled. It didn't matter. This is the first documented npm worm in history that ships with a valid, signed certificate of authenticity, the same one defenders rely on to know a package wasn't tampered with.
saw someone vibe coding at a cafe
no voice mode
no multi-agent setup
no 3-hour extended thinking loops
no switching between Codex and Claude Code
just typing a prompt, and staring at the screen, waiting for the response
like a psychopath
Introducing Monad Watchtower
โ https://t.co/23MZCz7gXO
An analytics and performance dashboard for the @monad ecosystem and validators.
1,329 epochs of history: 168 days of mainnet + 142 days of testnet. All visualized, searchable, and live-updating.
A brief backstory about how it all began.
From the early Monad testnet days we developed a monitoring and alerting system for validators called Monad Watchtower, with the goal of keeping teams in the loop with real-time notifications. Since then we've been pushing the development forward, consistently improving the logic, adding new features, and most importantly - collecting all the data for each epoch...
Now, having this much data, we decided to build a public dashboard to visualize all of it and make it available for everyone to use, analyze, and compare. Every validator would love to track their own performance, every delegator just wants a clear view of who's healthy and worth delegating to, and of course the Monad Foundation team needs to evaluate validators in the VDP.
So we put it all in one place.
๐ What's inside:
1. A live network overview that updates every 30 seconds: network success rate, online/offline validators, current epoch progress, alerts.
2. Per-validator deep dives with full epoch participation history (all the way back), alert state, 24h stats, and a VDP compliance card showing flagged weeks against the rolling 3-month window.
3. An Epoch Browser pulling every epoch ever produced, with adjustable trend charts and a "by validator" view to jump straight to anyone's history. Weekly Reports broken down by ISO calendar week with notable events flagged for each.
4. The page worth bookmarking is the VDP Watchlist. Every validator with flagged weeks (โค98% weekly success rate) in the rolling 3-month window, sorted by severity. 3 flagged weeks triggers a delegation review by the Monad Foundation, so we surface the risk before it lands.
5. An Alerts page split into offline, recovering, and degraded validators so you can see who's actually in trouble at a glance.
And we just shipped a full mobile redesign too, so you can check on the network from your phone!
Massive thanks to @socialforging - you've been there with us through every question, every "wait is this actually useful?" moment along the way. Your feedback shaped Watchtower into something we're actually proud to ship. Truly grateful for everything! ๐
There's still a lot in the works, we'll keep you posted as we ship new features.
gmonad! ๐