Good reminder of how far social engineering can go.
One can read it as "don't trust anyone ever, always adversarial mindset" but that's not always ideal. The way to go is:
1) critical systems deserve the highest security. Critical signing devices should never touch anything else
2) NEVER take shortcuts on your security protocols. Trust the process. It's there to protect you from the most insidious threats, not the obvious ones.
📣 "Privacy Unlocks Ethereum's Product-Market Fit" — Arnaud Schenk (@arnaudschenk), Co-Founder of @aztecnetwork
In this latest episode, Arnaud joins Wolfgang Vitale (@w4vitale) and Marco Mariani to make the case for why privacy — not scalability — is the real reason blockchains haven't crossed the line with mainstream adoption.
Arnaud breaks down:
- Why a syndicated loans deal in 2017 accidentally turned into an 8-year privacy protocol
- How client-side proving works — and why your data never leaves your device, not even to the network
- The ZK + MPC combination that makes multi-party finance possible without anyone seeing anyone else's numbers
- Why Aztec launched fully decentralized from day one — and why "we'll decentralize later" is a promise that never gets kept
From reluctant cryptographers to a private world computer — this is what eight years of building from first principles actually looks like. 🔐
📺 Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/MrgA0hLw4Y
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Aletheia Heat Check on October 28
The Bitcoin price action currently is showing constructive behavior in my opinion. It is, however, important to note that we rejected at the first strong resistance around $116K yesterday and are currently trying to find a floor at last Tuesday’s resistance, possibly turning it into support. If this level holds, we are likely going to trade towards $120K over the coming weeks.
Gold reached a temporary top and is trading below $4K again, down more than 10 percent from its recent ATH. This is a rather positive sign for Bitcoin and crypto, especially when looking at the last two years, where BTC often started rallying shortly after gold began consolidating or trading lower.
Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision, which will very likely consist of a 25 bps cut, as the market has been expecting for quite some time. I suggest looking out for remarks regarding the end of QT. Regardless, the market is expecting another cut towards the end of the year, and it looks like an irresponsibly dovish Fed is shaping up as the main bull case for 2026, next to the mid-term elections in November next year.
You surely see how everyone is farming for airdrops. Perp DEXs are the hot topic, with everyone actively trading on Lighter and other HL alternatives in hopes of another life-changing airdrop. I feel like most will be disappointed, but there are certainly some interesting opportunities. It is probably best to farm the ones that no one, or only very few, are talking about.
Airdrop farming is closely connected to a series of possible TGEs lining up for Q4, as many projects are expected to launch their tokens to profit from the positive regulatory developments and a possible rally into year-end. Monad, MegaETH, Abstract, and Lighter are among the most anticipated upcoming TGEs.
Some altcoin spot ETFs are expected to be approved any day now. The question is whether the launches will be bullish catalysts for the underlying assets or a bunch of nothingburgers. So far, BlackRock has not filed for another altcoin spot ETF, and when looking at the numbers from the Bitcoin spot ETFs, we see that, excluding BlackRock, the spot ETF flows would be negative YTD.
Currently, everyone seems to be talking about x402 and ERC-8004, but what are they? Both are emerging Web3 standards designed to enable autonomous AI agents to operate and transact on the internet, but they focus on different aspects of machine-to-machine interaction: x402 focuses on payments, while ERC-8004 focuses on identity and coordination. The x402 protocol, launched by Coinbase and Cloudflare, is a plug-and-play payment system that adapts the traditional HTTP “402 Payment Required” web standard into a functional on-chain payment mechanism. ERC-8004, meanwhile, is an Ethereum standard launched by the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and Consensys to establish a framework for AI agents to discover, authenticate, and cooperate on-chain without centralized intermediaries.
Guys just a heads up - when pitching a token to tradfi you don’t need to bring up the “revenue meta.” Revenue is universally understood to be a good thing outside of the asylum