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@GemFrodo

Crypto Enthusiast since 2017, PhD Candidate in Marketing

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Frodo@GemFrodo·
I see some crypto people arguing that recent acts of Arbitrum was against decentralization and not acceptable. You are not OK with some cexs controlling the whole market and order table for years then? Right?
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@camolNFT I agree. But I also think that systems should be more resilient when it comes to security issues. All of the parties were warned long before the incident because their systems were vulnerable. I do not underestimate the complexity of the malicious acts but they were nonchalant.
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camol@camolNFT·
Seeing a lot of takes regarding Arbitrum freezing stolen funds (~$70M) and working with law enforcement. This is not a bad thing. In fact, it reminds me of when Ethereum forked in 2016. A hacker was able to steal 3.6 MILLION ethereum, valued around $72M, at the time. The community voted to HARD FORK Ethereum and rollback to before the hack happened to recover the stolen funds. Decentralization is GREAT. Crime is bad. There is no perfect world where people will EVER have 100% decentralization and we should celebrate teams making hard decisions to support the overarching health of the ecosystem and community. I mean shit, do you guys really just want continued downwards pressure on token performance from criminals?
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
$292M gone. In 24 hours. Here's how North Korea just shook the entire DeFi ecosystem, and why LayerZero, KelpDAO, and Aave all share the blame. 🧵 On April 18, attackers drained 116,500 rsETH (~$292M) from KelpDAO's cross-chain bridge, built on LayerZero infrastructure. Unbacked rsETH tokens were minted through a misconfigured LayerZero cross-chain bridge, creating fake liquidity that triggered a massive crunch across DeFi. The attack carried markings of a "highly sophisticated state actor", LayerZero pointed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, specifically the TraderTraitor subunit, previously linked to the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge and WazirX hacks. Pattern? Very much so. The root flaw: KelpDAO ran rsETH with a 1-of-1 DVN setup, LayerZero Labs as the sole verifier, directly contradicting the multi-DVN redundancy model LayerZero had consistently recommended. One compromised node. $292M gone. KelpDAO counters that the 1/1 setup was LayerZero's own GitHub default, currently used by ~40% of protocols. The blame game is real. Aave froze rsETH markets on V3 and V4, and saw $10B+ in outflows — its total supply dropping from $45.8B to $35.7B. Total DeFi TVL tanked to $85.6B in 24 hours. The message is clear: interconnected DeFi is only as strong as its weakest single point of failure.
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
Privacy in crypto isn’t optional. It’s inevitable. Right now, most blockchains are radically transparent — every transaction, every wallet, fully visible. That sounds great… until it isn’t. Would you want: → Your salary visible to anyone? → Your investments tracked in real time? → Your financial behavior permanently recorded? That’s where Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) change the game. They allow one party to prove something is true… without revealing the underlying data. In practice: → Transactions get verified without exposing amounts → Identities stay private while remaining compliant → Applications become both secure and confidential This isn’t theory anymore. From zk-rollups to privacy-focused protocols, ZK is quickly becoming core infrastructure, not a niche feature. Transparency built crypto. Privacy will scale it. 💬 The real tension: Can crypto balance privacy with regulation — or will one break the other? #crypto #blockchain #privacy #ZK #zeroknowledge #web3
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@WazzCrypto That's a total fail and cringe. I would expect someone around to warn him about these.
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Wazz@WazzCrypto·
Highly recommend not depicting Bitcoin as a giant orange bubble about to crash and burst on people panicking, specially as its biggest holder If you'd like some more PR tips please reach out. First one is free, next is 1 $BTC
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
I am not happy to be right about the fate of crypto in 2026 and incidents in April like KelpDAO and Lovable unfortunately exceeded my forecast of an incoming storm.😩 Stay safe fellas.🙏🏻 There are lessons to be taken from these.😉
Frodo@GemFrodo

Seems like there is a lack of gems in the market. People are sick of losing money and getting robbed. I am therefore paying more attention to newcomers as they need to be alert to red flags. 2026 is not gonna be an easy year for crypto but there is still hope.

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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@FaridRached Series of big mistakes resulted in an exploitation. All of the three that you mentioned were fatal and yet people had warned them about this. They were nonchalant and now the whole crypto world is paying the price.
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Farid 🔺(✌️)@FaridRached·
why did aave allow rseth on the platform in the first place? why did layerzero allow a 1/1 dvn? why did aave allow that too?
Duo Nine ⚡ YCC@duonine

🚨 I don't think people realize how bad things are at @aave right now. All core markets are at 100% utilization, that includes $3 bil in USDT and $2 bil in USDC stuck! That means you CAN'T WITHDRAW your money! A long post on why and how we ended up here. When the rsETH exploit happened and AAVE incurred bad debt, whales like Justin Sun, MEXC exchange, and others immediately withdrew billions from AAVE. This instantly drained all available liquidity in key core markets like ETH, USDT, USDC and so on. Those first to withdraw got out, laggers got trapped. Initially, the ETH market hit 100% utilization, meaning you could not withdraw your ETH from AAVE. Worse, this also means the protocol can't process ETH liquidations should ETH price fall/crash. If you can't sell any ETH, you can't liquidate to cover debt obligations. That means the risk of more bad debt incurred by AAVE is increasing the longer its markets remain stuck. Nevertheless, users can still sell at a minor loss the aETHwETH tokens on Uniswap or similar aggregators. That exit door is the last one remaining for ETH depositors on AAVE. The same cannot be said by depositors of USDT and USDC. They are stuck. That's because AAVE lost over $6 billion in liquidity in the past 24h. As whales took out their money, USDT and USDC also hit 100% utilization. These markets are now also stuck with money locked. Panic is spreading and desperate times call for desperate measures. Some users decided to borrow against USDT/USDC and exit via other markets at a 10-25% loss (90-75% LTV). Basically you borrow GHO/DAI/USDe against your locked USDT/C. But as more liquidity leaves AAVE, more markets get to 100% utilization and get locked/stuck due to low liquidity. This is quickly cascading across all available markets. Luckily the crypto market was rather flat today so liquidation risks were marginal, but if things change there are billions in stablecoins and other assets locked on AAVE that can't process liquidations = more bad debt for AAVE. If users or related protocols that are stuck need access to their money to prevent liquidations or other critical function, they have a huge problem on their hands. Plus, nobody wants to deposit (or provide liquidity) in these markets now since your ETH, BTC, USDC/T could be stuck there for who know how long. As soon as any available liquidity is made available, it is instantly taken out by bots fighting to get out. As I wrote this I saw 250k in liquidity on USDC vanish in seconds. Then there is the bad debt question. There's over $200 mil in bad debt incurred by AAVE via rsETH that's like a hot potato. Nobody knows who will eventually pay this bill. If you didn't remove your assets from AAVE, you risk receiving at least part of that bill in some form. Not having access to your money is part of that risk too. Contagion is also extremely high. Many protocols and apps rely on AAVE for their earn mechanics. These protocols and their users are stuck too and may be forced to incur bad debt with no fault of their own. October 10th was a CEX driven crash, this is a DeFi risk mitigation failure of epic proportions. AAVE should have never onboarded rsETH as a collateral asset, at least not to the size of hundreds of millions that allowed the hacker to walk away (i.e. borrow) over $200M in ETH after posting fake collateral. Rumors on X are saying rsETH was onboarded by AAVE due to a conflict of interest (lobbying) by a given service provider. If true, this is a major failure of its governance structure (nothing new). The folks at @KelpDAO who manage rsETH also have a tough decision to make on who will actually pay for the $200M exploit. AAVE users? L2 rsETH users? Everyone affected gets a haircut to account for the loss? The AAVE team and its founder, Stani, have been quiet for over 20h since the exploit after initially announcing the rsETH market freeze. They have a pretty big problem on their hands since the whole protocol is at risk right now. Trust is already lost as AAVE is bleeding billions in TVL to the level of hitting 100% utilization on all core markets. Maybe some key actors in the space will step in to provide liquidity to stabilize the markets on AAVE before this gets even worse. I got lucky to get out of AAVE early when I first saw this. I also removed all assets from DeFi and will not touch any protocol in the next few weeks. Too much risk for a few percentage points in yield. If you found this informative, like, share, and follow @duonine

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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@DeeZe That's being like an Android phone manufacturer and using iPhone in personal life. It would be funny if it was not a real statement. Pathetic.
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@camolNFT They are unfortunately extremely talented at this. However I think that they are not the sole danger. World is getting closer to a future that they can't even imagine what can happen to them.
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camol@camolNFT·
North Korea made over $2B via crypto hacks last year. That's 10% of their GDP. This year? They're on track to VASTLY increase that number. Every person, group, and company is a target. The company funds itself by scamming people. Be safe.
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
Wise words. Follow the advice and remove all your funds integrated with Layerzero immediately. This is the safest option for now. This is a big lesson for whole crypto world. However I am optimistic that it will benefit our future greatly.
curb@CryptoCurb

🚨🚨🚨 REMOVE ALL YOUR FUNDS INTEGRATED WITH LAYERZERO IMMEDIATELY!!! LayerZero placed blame on KelpDAO saying they were irresponsible for running 1/1 DVN. @Dune analyzed all LayerZero integrations. Out of the 2,665 LayerZero integrations, 47% are running 1/1 DVN LayerZero integrations. I am being 100% serious here— REMOVE ALL YOUR FUNDS INTEGRATED WITH LAYERZERO IMMEDIATELY!!! 🚨🚨🚨

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BuBBliK@k1rallik·
> be crypto in April 2026 > April 1st. Drift Protocol. $285M gone in 12 minutes > North Koreans befriended their way in > got them to pre-sign hidden transactions > nobody noticed until wallets were empty > Tether scrambled to recover $147M > April 18th. Kelp DAO. $293M > hacker literally printed money out of thin air > minted fake tokens, used them as collateral on Aave > AAVE dropped 14% in hours > 20 days. $605 million. gone > no one went to jail The scariest part isn't the hacks. It's how easy it's getting.
Polymarket@Polymarket

JUST IN: Crypto platforms have now lost over $605 million to cyberattacks in under 20 days.

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Frodo@GemFrodo·
Crypto isn’t just about digital assets anymore. It’s about bringing the real world on-chain. Welcome to the rise of Real World Assets (RWAs). We’re talking about: → Real estate → Bonds & treasury yields → Commodities like gold → Even private credit All tokenized and accessible 24/7 on blockchain networks. Why does this matter? Because traditional finance is slow, gated, and inefficient. RWAs flip that: → Fractional ownership (you don’t need millions to invest) → Global access (no borders, no banking barriers) → Instant settlement (no waiting days for transactions) This isn’t hype — it’s already happening. Major players are quietly moving in, bridging trillions of dollars into crypto rails. The next bull run might not be driven by speculation… but by real yield from real assets. 💬 The real question: Will crypto disrupt traditional finance — or merge with it? #crypto #blockchain #RWA #tokenization #defi #finance
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Frodo@GemFrodo·
@SuhailKakar It is both hard to expect and be prepared against and exploit the system like this. I hope they can recover from this.
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Suhail Kakar@SuhailKakar·
the kelp rsETH post-mortem is wild lazarus (dprk) compromised two rpc nodes that layerzero dvn was relying on. swapped the op-geth binaries. wrote a custom payload that forged messages *only when the dvn queried* - every other IP, including monitoring, saw clean truthful data. then they DDoS'd the healthy RPCs to force failover onto the poisoned ones. drained $290M. self-destructed the malicious binaries to erase tracks. they targeted rsETH because kelp ran a 1-of-1 DVN config with layerzero as sole verifier
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LayerZero@LayerZero_Core

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