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This is our 9th year in crypto Nine years providing liquidity and staying active through every market condition Today we're launching Armitage Our take on vault curation, starting with two USDC vaults on @Morpho

Had a lot of fun helping @lawmaster with few chapters of "How Crypto Actually Works" book and somehow made it to the co-authors list! Grateful for the opportunity and strongly recommend to check it out 🔽 x.com/lawmaster/stat…

1/4 After years in this space, one thing stands out: most people are missing pieces of the foundation That’s why @lawmaster and our research team (🐐 @emparedad0) collaborated on a book about the most important crypto concepts👇 x.com/lawmaster/stat…

The best way to see if you're cut out for trading? Challenge yourself at our Trader Assessment Day March 6 in London: solve real problems, compete on quant challenges, meet Wintermute traders Top performers move to final interview For 2026 graduates Apply by Feb 15

While looking through old contracts, I found a post from 2016 saying unclaimed TheDAO funds would be used for Ethereum security. Nearly ten years later, I made the proposal to put these funds to use and I'm proud to say that 75,000 ETH will be used to fund Ethereum security!

That’s a wrap on Wintermute Construct Demo Day in London! Our first cohort presented on 21 Oct 👏 @RPS_AI @calibermoney @showdown_gg @canary_proto and @tradevu_co Missed it? Join us for the online Demo Day on 30 Oct ↓ ↓ ↓

A cluster of addresses with a similar behavior made more than 1,500x with @PlasmaFDN airdrop by spending just around 570 $USDT and receiving ~1,060,656 $XPL ($1,100,960) today. In details 🔽

Did you know that one wallet alone bridged around $3.4 billion between @HyperliquidX HyperCore and HyperEVM? We didn't either, so we built a @Dune dashboard to explore HyperEVM's unique features and uncover any new insights Dual blocks, write precompiles, LSTs & more 🔽

@TheBlock__ my quantitative said scores need some time weighting, post backtesting he said "bayzedbarry" would be in S

Here's the CryptoIQ tier list 🧠 These are the smartest people in crypto (so far) — can you knock them off the leaderboard? All of them have earned a follow from The Block 🤝

And @tonykebot took the first FCFS opportunity in the PvP part of the @wintermute_t Alpha Challenge 2025 after recovering the Solidity code from the bytecode What a start🔥

Last year I participated in the Alpha Challenge, this year I'm a researcher at @wintermute_t Spoiler: While it was harder than clicking a few buttons, this year’s Alpha Challenge is absolutely worth taking. Here’s why:

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@nero_eth How did you get the data?

CDF of Ethereum block propagation delays across countries, measured relative to the fastest node per slot (block first seen). Only a few countries (FI, CH) achieve sub-100 ms delays; most show 200–500 ms median lag. This represents a lower bound estimate for block propagation.

New ATHs, new chain, new labels — all on our EIP-7702 dashboard EIP-7702 adoption saw new all-time highs this week across different metrics, including hitting ~0.55% of all daily transactions on Ethereum with x5 growth in 2 weeks! In details 🔽

While EIP-7702 brings new convenience, it also introduces new risks Our Research team found that over 97% of all EIP-7702 delegations were authorized to multiple contracts using the same exact code. These are sweepers, used to automatically drain incoming ETH from compromised addresses. More insights from our @Dune dashboard ↓ What’s the “Crime” tag in our dashboard? These are mostly delegate contracts designed to auto-sweep funds from EOAs with leaked private keys. We highlighted this pattern in our original post, based on behavior seen across authorizations from compromised addresses. At that time, the bytecode was not verified. Now, we’ve reversed the EVM bytecode into Solidity and published a verified version called CrimeEnjoyor. Why verify it? Because verified code makes intent visible. We no longer need to infer malicious behavior from transaction patterns or metadata. This lets us: ‣ Shows exactly what the malicious contract does ‣ Add a public warning ‣ Clearly label it for other users The CrimeEnjoyor contract is short, simple, and widely reused. This one copy-pasted bytecode now accounts for the majority of all EIP-7702 delegations. It’s funny, bleak, and fascinating at the same time. It also reinforces a key point: New primitives like EIP-7702 expand what is possible, but without verification, labeling, and transparency tools, it becomes harder to tell infrastructure from exploitation, especially for new users. New updates to our dashboard We’ve added labels for delegate contracts used by: ‣ @TrustWallet ‣ Porto by @ithacaxyz ‣ @thirdweb ‣ v1 of @Uniswap Calibur ‣ @FireblocksHQ and more crime-tagged contracts With more compromised contracts tagged, more activity can be surfaced and more users can be protected. You can now also explore detailed activity analysis of EIP-7702 users on Ethereum, including which contracts they interact with. Currently, this covers only MetaMask workflow, and we’ve excluded any approve interactions to provide additional insights for the data. @Uniswap @jumperapp @eulerfinance currently account for 95% of all EIP-7702 flows on Ethereum as they’re early integrators. 🔗 Check out the live EIP-7702 adoption metrics: dune.com/wintermute_res… h/t @FrankResearcher @emparedad0

@brisket131 @danrobinson yeah, bigger jumps in markouts line up with biggest recent liqs i can remember (end of feb 2025, early Aug 2024). And the indicriminate flow always followed up with equally loss-making (to pool) backruns

Here's a mystery: AMMs seem to be much more profitable when buying ETH than selling it Look at how these cumulative markouts (grouped by direction) diverge over time The pool made >$20m from its ETH buys, but lost >$24m from its ETH sells! Any theories?

@0xKofi fwiw, see you only check for successful txns in a recent commit (atleast i assume since idk what the col in the table acc is). But if thats the case you would be missing some auths since they are not rolled back if the txn reverts.

EIP-7702 launched last week. More than 25,000 wallets are currently upgraded to EIP-7702 smart accounts. - 13,013 on Ethereum - 5,588 on OP Mainnet - 5,261 on BSC - 2,851 on Base - 229 on Gnosis