@Truebitprotocol Hey @Truebitprotocol and @JasonTeutsch
your attitude is not good for your TRU token investor.
Many people 's hard money is gone because of you only.
You have to pay of our single tears. 😭. Karma will never leave you.
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Truebit is continuing to work with US law enforcement and external cybersecurity specialists to investigate the recent attack on the TRU smart contracts.
Truebit’s new platform, Truebit Verify, has been in development over the last four years. The recent attack on the TRU smart contracts did not compromise Truebit Verify’s operation. TRU interfaces with Truebit Verify as a staking-based countermeasure intended to protect against Sybil attacks and faulty behavior. These protections remain in effect, including managing Node operator participation, auditable dispute resolution, and deregistration of identified faulty Nodes. Truebit Verify’s API tasks, Dynamic Oracles, and Verified Orchestration features also remain fully functional.
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@dac_chain With Truebit ??????
Don't Trust, Verify even Truebit 😂
You need verify first
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@csdwj @TheTrue_bitcoin I’m so sorry brother. Lost a whole lot myself.
Hopefully the team will do the right thing.
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The timing raises difficult questions
On November 12, 2025, Truebit updated its Terms of Use.
Shortly thereafter, the exploit occurred.
Terms can limit liability going forward but they cannot retroactively redefine the nature of risk already borne by token holders who interacted with live contracts in good faith.
Legal language does not rewrite blockchain history.
Transactions occurred.
Liquidity existed.
Tokens were minted and traded openly through standard interfaces like Uniswap and MetaMask.
These were not “unsupported” assets.
They were native TRU tokens interacting directly with Truebit’s own system.
The silence is the real problem
Two weeks later, there has been no clear public statement addressing:
• what exactly failed
• whether the vulnerability was previously known
• why it remained accessible
• what options are being evaluated
• how token holders fit into the future of the ecosystem
This silence is not neutral.
Silence amplifies fear.
Silence invites speculation.
Silence damages trust far more than bad news ever could.
Token holders are not demanding guarantees or price recovery.
They are asking for acknowledgment.
For clarity.
For honesty.
Real people, real losses
This is no longer abstract.
There are holders who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Others committed life savings not chasing yield, but supporting what they believed was foundational verification infrastructure.
These were not reckless traders.
They were participants who relied on years of public messaging, technical reputation, and the continued existence of live contracts.
When people act on reasonable reliance, responsibility does not disappear simply because outcomes turn bad.
Can verification exist without accountability?
Truebit Verify may still function technically.
But verification is not only cryptographic.
Trust is also social.
If token holders the earliest supporters are treated as expendable collateral damage, a serious question emerges:
How can large enterprises trust an infrastructure that did not protect or even address its own community?
Enterprises do not only evaluate code.
They evaluate governance behavior under stress.
And silence under pressure sends a message.
This is not about blame
This is not an accusation of fraud.
It is not a call for retaliation.
It is not an attack on individuals.
It is a request for responsibility.
A request for leadership.
A request for transparency.
Because projects are not judged by perfection they are judged by how they respond when things go wrong.
A note on seeking independent legal advice
Given the scale of losses and ongoing uncertainty, it is reasonable for affected holders to consider seeking independent legal advice in their own jurisdictions.
This is not about hostility.
It is about understanding rights.
Different countries treat digital assets, negligence, disclosure, and reliance differently. What may not apply in one jurisdiction may be highly relevant in another.
Consulting qualified legal counsel is not aggressive.
It is responsible.
Especially when real financial harm has occurred.
No one should rely solely on social media narratives or speculation when their livelihoods are involved.
Clarity ,legal and factual benefits everyone.
The moment that defines Truebit
Truebit now stands at a crossroads.
Not technical.
Ethical.
Either this becomes a moment of transparency, accountability, and leadership or it becomes the moment when the phrase “trustless verification” lost its meaning.
Token holders are asking not to be abandoned.
The world is watching.
And silence is already an answer just not a good one.
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@Truebitprotocol I don't care of your investigation.We are victims because of your Side.
My Whole life saving is in the TRU token.
If You will not Refund my investment soon then i have only and only One Option. 😭
Remember it Karma will never live you peacefully. 😭
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@TheTrue_bitcoin @csdwj I don't Care for anything.
I Want My Money Back.This is it.
4 Year is not short time for me .
My Whole savings is in TRU token @Truebitprotocol . And today I am in deep Depression. 😭. Family is in tension for Me.Sir @JasonTeutsch please do something for #TRU token Holders.
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To Everyone Who Lost Money in TRUEBIT
This isn’t a post to inflame, defend, or speculate.
It’s to establish facts, align expectations, and restore clarity in a moment of chaos.
Thousands of holders lost money after the recent Truebit bonding-curve exploit. That loss is real. Ignoring it, minimizing it, or reframing it as “just crypto” helps no one.
What actually happened (plain English)
No private keys were stolen
No wallets were hacked
The TRU token contract itself was not compromised
The exploit occurred in a five-year-old controller contract that governed the bonding curve the mechanism that priced and minted TRU in exchange for ETH.
A math error allowed attackers to:
Buy TRU at mispriced rates
Immediately sell it back
Drain 8,535 ETH ($26M) from the reserve in a single sequence
This was economic exploitation, not a conventional hack.
The result:
The ETH backing the curve disappeared
The price anchor vanished
Liquidity collapsed
TRU repriced to near zero
That repricing was not panic it was mechanical.
About the tokens people bought
Many holders are being told:
“Those tokens aren’t recognized”
“They were never meant to exist”
“They’re outside the intended supply”
This matters, so let’s be precise:
The tokens were minted by deployed contracts
They were sold on-chain
They were freely transferable
They were held by real users
They were priced by the protocol itself
Whether they were intended is irrelevant to the people who bought them in good faith.
Intent does not erase economic reality.
About responsibility
Truebit’s documentation explicitly limits liability. That is legally common in DeFi but it does not make losses imaginary, nor does it remove ethical responsibility.
There is a difference between:
“We are not legally obligated”
and
“We owe our users transparency, clarity, and a path forward”
Right now, what holders need most is not reassurance it’s truth.
What is known right now
Funds are being traced on-chain
Law enforcement has been contacted
No recovery has been confirmed
No snapshot, rollback, or migration has been announced
Exchanges and wallets are reacting differently due to risk controls, not coordination
Anything beyond that is speculation.
What this does not mean
It does not mean verification as a concept is dead
It does not mean Truebit’s research is invalid
It does not mean everyone who bought is foolish
It does not mean recovery is impossible
But it does mean trust must now be rebuilt with actions, not words.
A message to fellow holders
You are not alone.
You are not imagining the loss.
You are not wrong to ask hard questions.
This space only matures when failures are confronted openly not buried under narratives.
Whatever comes next recovery, migration, or shutdown clarity is the minimum that is owed.
Until then, be cautious of certainty, from both optimists and doom-sayers.
Facts first.
Then decisions.
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@Truebitprotocol I can't stop Negetive Thinking now.
Please Do something and Recover the price. 😭
Bad thaught is Disturbing me.. 😭
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Today, we became aware of a security incident involving one or more malicious actors. The affected smart contract is 0x764C64b2A09b09Acb100B80d8c505Aa6a0302EF2 and we strongly advise the public not to interact with this contract until further notice. We are in contact with law enforcement and taking all available measures to address the situation. We will share updates through our official channels as they become available.
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@ReferTri @Truebitprotocol There is no liquidity there.
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@TrueCryptoPower @Truebitprotocol Should I sell me token on Mexc ?
What you suggest?
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@TrueCryptoPower I am also Done 4year + 2 Month With @Truebitprotocol .
My Children is mature but still Truebit is not.
😂
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Today's #Truebit node activity was unusually high. 👀
Something good is cooking...
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Fulbright spotlights our founder @jasonteutsch and his ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award work on the “Verifier’s Dilemma”— a precursor to ETH scaling, Truebit, and L2 optimistic rollups.
Read more here fulbrightisrael-magazine.org/2025/alumni/dr…
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@TruebitGod @josephdelong @hosseeb @JasonTeutsch @Truebitprotocol Have you any idea? when will self stacking node ?
Any Guess
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@josephdelong @hosseeb @JasonTeutsch and @Truebitprotocol have always been S tier. Eth OGs still think it's a half-forgotten Eth-scaling experiment; the REAL wild part is they kept building for YEARS and launched Truebit Verify recently, a general-purpose verification platform, it's groundbreaking.
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Someone was asking for a bear market reading list. If you want to brush up on your crypto foundations, here's my all-time Crypto White Paper / Academic Paper Tier List:
S:
* Bitcoin (2008)
* Ethereum (2014)
* Augur (2015)
* Flash Boys 2.0 (2019)
* Truebit (2017)
* Uniswap v2 (2019)
* Uniswap v3 (2021)
* Zerocash (2014)
A:
* Avalanche Consensus (2018)
* Cosmos (2017)
* Constant Function Market Makers (2021)
* Eigenlayer (2023)
* MakerDAO (2017)
* Tornado Cash (2019)
B:
* Arbitrum (2018)
* Lightning Network (2016)
* Filecoin (2017)
* HotStuff (2018)
C:
* 0x Protocol (2017)
* The DAO (2016)
* Verifiable Delay Functions (2018)
Thoughts? Any classics I'm missing here?
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@TrueCryptoPower Have you any idea? when will self stacking node ?
Any Guess?
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Just $2,000 $TRU is enough to stake to run #Truebit node. Why are we securing the node with only $340?
There are2⃣options:
-only in the early stage and the number of required $TRU will increase later.
-Truebit team knows that the value of 1 $TRU will soon increase significantly.
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Whilst crypto natives panic over prices, tariffs, and macro volatility, the legendary and crypto-foundational @truebitprotocol quietly releases general availability of the Truebit Verify platform, ushering in The Age of Verification and cementing the foundations of a real verification layer for decentralised compute, off-chain workflows, and web3 in general.
They have finally moved from beta docs to a productised platform, with RWA, compliance, and AI verticals. This is very exciting, and wonderful to see after 4.5 years of waiting (if you count from the OS deployment), or 8 years of waiting (if you count from the publication of the first paper by @JasonTeutsch and Reitwießner people.cs.uchicago.edu/~teutsch/paper…).
Some observations (apologies for the long post).
1. The positioning is clearly enterprise-ready. It appears to be a SaaS-first go-to-market approach, with crypto rails half-implemented (the node side is done, the task side is not). Many of you are upset with the monthly subscription fiat pricing, but this is an absolute necessity on launch because low-friction onboarding is needed, especially given the fact that immediate verification customers are going to be enterprises ("crypto bros" don't need verification right now, they need therapy, a box of tissues, and a 9-5 job), it goes without saying that trying to onboard enterprise customers through crypto rails is counterintuitive. It's akin to asking institutional ETH ETF investors to install Metamask and get their ETH exposure from Uniswap.
2. I'm very happy to see unit definitions, so one certified transcript is one task execution. This makes transcripts a clear and billable metric, a task under the Developer plan costs you approximately $0.026 ($29 divided by 1100). This is dirt cheap if you need audit-grade proofs and even better for accelerating adoption. There's maybe a potential reseller business idea in there (you heard it from TBG first).
3. The lower and middle tiers provide insufficient transcript storage for enterprises that have large audit windows and large data retention policies. I expect proper businesses to opt for a custom plan. Also, the lower and middle tiers only give you five verifiers, you absolutely need more than this for the big stuff. The more verifiers working for you and competing for a slice of the pie the, more robust your results.
4. The verification game, which has inspired so many protocols since its inception, is more explicit now, and is named as being done by the Truebit Control Node. Disputes land here, and are adjudicated here.
5. "Under the hood, Truebit leverages blockchain-based ledgers to secure execution, ensure full transparency, and manage system-level financial mechanics." - This is the phrasing that many were waiting for, this confirms the economic layer we all knew was coming.
6. Regarding transcripts, we can see which nodes participated and which ones got paid, and if applicable, which ones were penalised (after adjudication). Node leader board anyone? Would be fun. @ShaneOnChain something to think about and build.
7. We now have some information, albeit just a little, on the AI audit trail. Given the rise of AI Agents, this will likely be THE major driver for verification, especially if companies in regulated industries deploy agents.
8. We now have clear definitions of the major stakeholders. You've got the task developers (currently guys at Forte, see here - x.com/TrueCryptoPowe…), the task requesters (the enterprise customers seeking certified transcripts), and the node operators (who put up collateral to win the jobs that verify the work).
9. The node payout rail is in USD stables, a clean path to revenue for node operators. Paying nodes in USD stables is a sober design choice because infra providers pay bills in fiat, not tokens (not to mention the sell pressure from them having to repeatedly sell their TRU). Increasing demands for verification means more parallel nodes competing for work as dispatched by the Verify Hub. The way the network adds capacity is for more TRU to be acquired and locked. Price pressure therefore has to migrate to TRU as verification work increases with demand. There's also the institutional fit, naturally some enterprises may want to dabble in the node operators lane, and payment in stables (post GENUIS Act) is a genuine and legit revenue pathway.
10. Running a node now has a cash incentive. USD is easier to forecast and easier to fund your current and future infra with. Professional infra providers want this. Also, at $0.14 per TRU, the cost to run a node is approximately $280, a small price to pay for an early slice of the verification pie. This invites competition, fast capacity growth, and network effect.
11. Cheaters are slashed, good participants are rewarded. Classic incentive for good behaviour and honest work.
A predicted flywheel
1. Demand shock as verification needs grow. Watch Larry Fink predict the tokenisation of all assets here - x.com/ShadowofEzra/s…
2. More nodes needed, thus more TRU needed for security and staking.
3. Nodes earn stables, the operators pay their OpEx, withdraw some profits, and then recycle the rest into more TRU for node expansion (after all, once you get a taste of the rewards, you'll want more and more). Node operators begin to seek OTC and secondary market deals, their last resort is calling the buyTRU(uint256 X) function. We all know what that does.
4. At some point (as per the official FAQ), they begin allowing the lower and middle tier plans to use TRU for payment, meaning transcripts/tasks are crypto railed and denominated in TRU, augmenting the game theory and driving the utility of TRU:
A] Task requesters mint TRU from the OS, or acquire through secondary markets if price < mint price (dependent on liquidity and availability).
B] Their tasks receive some kind of priority QoS or faster orchestration from the Verify Hub or perhaps discount on tasks, I'd love to see a 'TRU-pay' toggle. This fires up the game theory dynamics, and will indirectly impact the staking price collateral for nodes. It also means professional enterprises who only deal with fiat can continue to subscribe in the conventional USD way as per the pricing page.
C] Leftover minted TRU can be used for more tasks down the line, can be retired to the OS (at a loss as per the spread between the retire and mint price), or they can be sold on the secondary markets if the price is higher than retire.
D] Possibility of OTC acquisition, given that there is still a lot of free-floating TRU circulating as a result of the May 2021 events. OTC can be directly with Truebit (I imagine they minted and/or acquired their fair share), or with other holders. There's a potential OTC/P2P marketplace idea in it for you TRU-holding entrepreneurs out there in the ether (think TAO early days, before exchanges, ping me if you want to explore this further).
5. Suddenly, an entire verification marketplace is teeming with buy, sell, retire, mint, and stake.
6. Bots wait in the shadows, arbitraging price gaps, policing the curve and helping the fair value discover itself.
Those of you who are here for speculative purposes only will have to deal with the fact that for now, near-term "price action" is the result of node demand, which will be the result of increased verification needs, and this will not be an overnight event. Sorry if this disappoints you. CT doesn’t need a new 'casino' right now, what's needed is a 'factory' for verifiable workflows.
A few outstanding questions from my list to @Truebitprotocol
1. Is there any kind of legal exposure for node operators? If my node verifies compliance steps for tokenised securities, do I carry any obligations related to data handling and/or audit trails?
2. Slashing slashing slashing, this is a big one! Clarity on the slash amount, clarity on where the slashed TRU goes, does it get retired/burned? Does it go to the treasury, is it distributed to other nodes, or is there a split between all three?
3. Is there scope for the staking amount to grow with network usage and scale? If so, will the early nodes at 2000 collateral get to keep their early bird/early adopter low collateral option?
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BIG NEWS!! The "just trust us" era is OVER. Truebit Verify is now Generally Available! We are the verification layer for tokenized assets, generating cryptographic proof for any off-chain operation, from NAV calculations to compliance workflows. Solve the trust gap, stop discounting asset values, and unlock institutional adoption for your digital assets. Read the full announcement here: truebit.io/truebit-announ…
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