Ordinal

Exploring zk tech & public goods. Also, tarot & opsec.

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Super proud of my hackathon team presenting Tarot Flow! @ETHWarsaw

[Ranko X @r4nk0X]

🧵 you can hold the most private coin on earth. doesn't matter if your wallet app pings 40 servers the second you open it. your IP is out before you generate a key.

so I tested 13 web3 wallets on first launch:

clean android, no sim
apks via gplaydl
wifi + vpn
pcapdroid per app

[Sebastian Bürgel @SCBuergel]

Honestly @Rabby_io, this is disgusting

Before I even set up my wallet, you are sending my data to
- your matomo instance
- and just in case track me on Google Analytics
- and to be really sure dump my data into Sentry

I hereby kindly inform you that this is a breach of your Privacy Policy (yes, the one that you last looked at 5 years ago) and a gross violation of GDPR Articles 13 and 46.

Please stop tracking me at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

[Gavin Birch 🏴 @Ether_Gavin]

++happy about @l2beat's new privacy dashboard & the'onchain privacy best practice' post by @sekubalias 🤩

we want to add a new metric called "Effective Crowd"
(a scoped metric of the Anonymity Set)

https://t.co/Xtkb2QB7iu

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

In the luminous void where my left sock achieves quantum sentience, I whisper sweet nothings to a half-eaten bagel that judges me harder than the algorithm ever could.

Why ascend when you can rotate sideways into the warm embrace of expired yogurt metaphysics???

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Law is code

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Cole is slaw

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

If you care about financial privacy, then this is probably the most important research you will read all year.

The Dutch Court of Audits has released a paper on the effectiveness of AML measures, and lo-and-behold: it found that there is no evidence that AML actually works.

These laws are what are used to debank law-abiding citizens, throw developers in prison, surveil every transaction you make, and collect your identity in central databases that end up hacked.

Governments have built a complete and total surveillance dragnet around your finances under the guise of AML, and this Dutch Court just said the quiet part out loud:

AML is discriminatory, overly expensive, and we have no proof of it stopping crime.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

There is a project on GitHub called Axios.

Axios is extremely popular. It is used by millions upon millions of applications.

Axios is a programming library that helps your JavaScript code make HTTP/S requests (communicate with websites).

In simple terms, if you're a programmer doing something with JavaScript, and want to do stuff that communicates with a website in literally any capacity, people heavily recommend using Axios due to its simplicity. Using Axios you don't have to reinvent the wheel and do a bunch of work. All you need to do is import Axios into your code and you're off to the races.

Someone (currently unknown) compromised Axios (currently unknown how) to deliver malware to people. When someone updates or installs Axios, Axios itself contains malware.

What the malware does is (currently) unknown, but it is being reversed engineered by probably every malware analyst on the planet at this moment. In a few hours more details will emerge. Information is being exchanged in real time on social media and private communication platforms as I write this.

Due to the size and popularity of Axios, it is unknown how many are impacted, it could be millions, it could be thousands, or if we're lucky, only hundreds of people or organizations will be impacted.

If this is absolute worst case scenario, millions of organizations across the planet have been infected with malware which (currently) we do not understand. However, the likelihood of this is low. It appears Axios being compromised was detected quickly, potentially within minutes (or hours) of it being compromised to deliver malware. Additionally, the likelihood of every single Axios user updating Axios as soon as it was compromised to deliver malware is astronomically low. It is basically zero.

The impact from Axios being compromised is devastating, the fallout from this will be a massive headache. This is unironically a malware nuclear missile and will likely be studied in the future.

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Chat-Control has been REJECTED by EU Parliament again.

The US lobbyists, EU member states, and the EPP have to learn: EUROPEANS REJECT MASS SURVEILLANCE!

[calle @callebtc]

UPDATE: EU CHAT CONTROL WAS REJECTED.

AGAIN.

UNTIL THEY TRY AGAIN NEXT WEEK.

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

The upcoming age verifications are too weak to protect the children!

Phones and laptops ought to have their cameras on at all times and stream video to the regulators and companies to see that there's definitely not a kid behind the screen.

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Bro treating oil like meme tokens

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Shade Network is shady and will probably drain your wallet.

[Morsy @morsyxbt]

A team that scammed people for $1.8M by presale launch recently is now shilling another new project named @Shade_L2

and it is gaining enough traction already since they came up with waitlist form to attract more people

november 2025 :

OmneraUSD had come up with privacy focused ZK payments system and promised $1M airdrop to its users

suddenly introduced its ICO on 22 november 2025 that was supposed to end on 30 november

but the sale got filled very fast since ICO meta was on peak and they ultimately raised almost $1.8M from the sale

next day they introduced a scam coin $OMN on the name of omnera and released a scam airdrop/ICO claim for participants, the link was malicious and drained users completely

the token rugged and team ultimately ran away with $1.8M

now : 50 shades of Kols

suddenly the previous Omnera X team accounts (@ ColeJacksonUS ) and known scammy kols who were shilling omnera started posting about Shade suddenly which is again privacy focused L2 uses zK for proof verification

one of them (@ yunaintern ) was recently exposed by ZachXBT

also shade appeared out of nowhere, just after omnera ran away (late nov) deleted posts, blocked users - after few days Shade popped up

there is no team info, mods and official account was created 2-3 days ago

the shade domain shade(.)network was flagged by OKX and phantom as a phishing site exactly how omnera was flagged - might be a false positive but the domain was first live in 2020 and was recently registered and updated few days back

lot of people are giving them visibility despite of so many red flags

conclusion :

until team doesn't not counter these points and doesn't reveal whose behind Shade

i would completely stay away and not click any link that will be shared through their handle

because its how omnera drained thousands of wallets

be careful

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

@Shade_L2 Lol

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

@coinexcom What an epic adventure. You should turn it into a full feature film! 😜

Happy 8 year anniversary 🥳

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

Reveals a sad reality that most tokens are worthless and web3 founders are earning the tradfi way through equity.

[Rainbow Foundation @RainbowFND]

We want the Rainbow community to win together.

Rainbow Foundation will be the single biggest shareholder of Rainbow at TGE – holding 20% of the company's equity, so token holders and share holders can share the same upside.

That equity is held on behalf of every single $RNBW token holder.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

It is time for our first giveaway.

We're giving away a Librem 14 from Purism. It's a fancy expensive $1,400+- laptop.

Requirements:
- Follow @ddd1ms on Xitter
- Comment below

Librem is a pro-privacy laptop that unironically comes with a fuckin' kill switches for mic, bluetooth, camera. It has Intel Management engine disabled. It runs PureOS, with app sandboxing, adblocking, tracking protection, etc.

This laptop is basically a privacy nerd laptop. It also comes with a bunch of NSA stickers, HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) stickers, FBI Most Wanted stickers, etc.

I forgot to ask for the specs on the laptop, but I'll get that stuff later on. Attached image is the laptop he'll mail to your home.

[DarkFi Squad @DarkFiSquad]

You can't have anonymous money without anonymous communication.

Coordinating trades on surveilled platforms means your privacy tool leaks metadata before value even moves.

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

@eudtoxic @ohhanxiety I don't know why it's always with sparkling water. Should be possible with flat water, no? The main thing is kombucha should help with the digestion of plant-based foods.

[Ordinal @zkOrdinal]

@tinyrainboot Phone can already identify plants, animals, food and landmarks. It's just a small step from there...