A big morning at @Nasdaq 🔔
Proud to celebrate @BNBStandard’s bell ringing with @odagius and @cz_binance. A BNB treasury company on a major U.S. exchange is a signal of where this is heading, and @BNBCHAIN is only getting started 🚀
Jenner hardfork is coming to BNB Smart Chain testnet on Oct 28.
Validators, node operators, block builders, and application developers: start preparing for the upgrade.
Jenner includes:
🔸 Payment Lane, reserving 5% of block gas by default for eligible payments.
🔸 Millisecond block timestamps for smart contracts.
🔸 Functionality for CAS20, a new Compliant Asset Standard. More details on its availability will follow separately.
Testnet node operators must upgrade to a compatible client before activation. Developers should review the changes affecting their applications and tooling.
Our upgrade guide covers what’s changing and how to prepare 👇
https://t.co/Fg4Eo3kQ6O
SG’s PSI index gives health descriptors to a lagging 24h average (who even looks at this?) while the hourly PM2.5 lacks equivalent advisory bands.
The question isn’t just what to measure, but what the numbers and how we frame it help people understand
With the absurd haze situation in Singapore and all the discourse online about whose government is at fault, which air purifiers to buy etc, I am more intrigued by @NEAsg's semantic framing around the different advisory bands.
@Bhheennyy Arc goes beyond purpose-built L1 chain for payments to assembling a fully connected financial stack. Are we looking at Thanos of the stablecoin world collecting all the infinity stones 👀
so about the $86m ledger drain. everyone’s screaming “ledger got hacked” again. i spent the evening digging and it’s dumber and scarier than that
there’s a shop in malaysia called cryptobilis that sells hardware wallets. ledger has it listed as an official authorized reseller since at least 2022, for malaysia, indonesia and the philippines. legit shop, real devices, years of normal customers
this spring the founders sell it. the deal comes with an NDA: they can’t tell anyone about the sale until october 19
by august the company registry shows one owner with 100%. some guy from heilongjiang, china
the shop keeps running like nothing happened. the site, the name and the “authorized by ledger” badge all stay up
then on oct 8 @MagicalTux posts photos of a ledger he cracked open. hidden under the screen there’s an extra little board with an LTE modem and an eSIM. it just watches the display. you set up your wallet, your 24 words show up, and they get sent out over mobile data. ledger’s genuine check doesn’t catch it because the actual ledger chip is real. his device came from malaysia
https://t.co/vRuBM0xIfR
that post does 120k views
22 hours later someone sweeps everything. 203 BTC hits two addresses in literally one block. ~$58m USDT moves on tron in the same hour. i added up all the wallets: ~$91m
about 7 hours after that ledger says “we’re investigating” and asks cryptobilis to pause sales
cryptobilis is still on ledger’s site as an authorized reseller
to be fair, nobody has officially tied the new owner to the bugged devices yet, and ledger hasn’t confirmed how it happened. but read it as a business plan:
get authorized, sell real stuff for years, quietly sell the company under an NDA, keep the badge, ship devices that phone home, then drain everything the second someone notices
and was ledger even told the shop got sold? nobody’s said so
“authorized reseller” means ledger trusted whoever ran the shop back in 2022. says nothing about who runs it today
bought your hardware wallet anywhere but the manufacturer? open it up today, ledger literally has a guide for that. then move to a fresh seed on a device bought direct
wonder who’s going to answer for this: the chinese frontman from heilongjiang, the shop’s previous owners, or ledger itself
@Ledger clearly needs to keep a much closer eye on who they call official resellers, and take way more responsibility for who sells their devices and how
Agentic payments is the buzzword in the room this week at token2049. Funnily enough, many people I spoke to haven’t personally tried it out.
I recommend you fiddle with it yourself ☝️
> No clunky MCP setup
> Walletconnect compatibility for popular wallets
> Get some moolah back
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$30B+ in tokenized stock volume. No chain does more than @BNBCHAIN.
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