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$600M stolen across 3 DeFi protocols in April alone 💸 Different attacks. Different vectors. Same root cause: centralized control was the single point of failure 🔓 A thread on what this means for L1 builders 🧵

Crazy to think @polkadot had it right all along and @cosmos had it all wrong.

.@GoKiteAI has launched their blockchain built for agent payments. @CryptoRick98 breaks down the Kite Chain architecture, the design of Kite Agent Passport, the launch partner roster spanning Avalanche, PayPal, Google, Coinbase, and more, and where Kite fits into the agentic payments landscape.

Odd date to pick but OK x.com/GlobeEyeNews/s…

Argentine President Javier Milei, still in Israel, literally dancing and signing for Netanyahu's amusement:

@rohanpaul_ai more interesting than that would be if it understood in what plane it exists.. digital or what.

Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein test” for defining AGI: Train a model on all human knowledge but cut it off at 1911, then see if it can independently discover general relativity (as Einstein did by 1915); if yes, it’s AGI.

Coqnet is a good (bad?) example of how using a centralized L1 poses a significant risk to users. The chain stopped producing blocks without prior notice, effectively locking all bridged funds 🔒 It's also a good example of how decentralization metrics can be gamed 🧵

@fede_intern Skills is simply a prompt that you repeat. If there's a multi-step procedure that you go through with an LLM, and you do it recurrently, you can put it in a skill, which will load dynamically or by calling it. Think of it like a bash script for llms. Nothing more, nothing less.

i never used a skill file or any of those things. the models are already great. i'm working on multiple difficult things. i don't get why you need all this fine tuning.

In line with the $AVAX Foundation's recent efforts to build honest data-driven reporting for Avalanche to help drive effective action, we are releasing several tools and content for the L1s ecosystem. Our first contribution is an article, along with a Dune dashboard:

@the_smart_ape @hyperbridge there's absolutely no proof this has anything to do with AI lol

🚨 JUST IN: someone just used AI to hack @hyperbridge and walk away with $237K. the attacker used AI to craft a fake message that looked legit to the bridge. like a perfectly forged letter saying "i'm the new manager now." and the bridge believed it. once "promoted" to admin, the attacker minted 1 billion $DOT tokens out of thin air on ethereum, and dumped them for $237K before anyone noticed. → AI generates a forged cross-chain message → message passes through hyperbridge's gateway → bridge thinks it's real, executes it → attacker becomes admin of the token contract → mints 1B tokens → sells everything → gone crafting a valid-looking cross-chain message used to take weeks of manual reverse engineering. now an LLM can analyze the contract, find the weak validation logic, and generate the perfect forged payload in hours. and the most ironic part? hyperbridge literally published a post on april 1st called "The Hyperbridge Hack Explained" as a joke. they were flexing about how their ZK proof system made them "unhackable." 12 days later, someone proved them wrong.

I am a Web3 Ambassador at World Liberty Financial. There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance." 600,000 wallets bought our memecoin. They lost $3.87 billion. The family collected $350 million in trading fees. It launched 3 days before the inauguration. 80% of the supply went to CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC. I did not choose the names. I designed the allocation, the vesting, the timing, and the distance between the product and the President. The distance is my best work. I am the reason these events are unrelated. World Liberty Financial sends 75 cents of every dollar to DT Marks DEFI LLC. That is the family entity. Zero capital contributed. Zero liability assumed. I wrote this into the Gold Paper. Page 14. The lawyers bound it in white leather. The binding cost more than the due diligence. Justin Sun invested $75 million. He was facing SEC fraud charges. The SEC dropped the case. He is now our advisor. These events are unrelated. Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to federal money laundering violations. He received a presidential pardon. The SEC dropped its lawsuit against his exchange the same week we listed our stablecoin. Then the exchange settled a $2 billion deal entirely in that stablecoin. These events are unrelated. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed of BitMEX pleaded guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations. All 3 received presidential pardons. Then the company itself was pardoned. $100 million in fines. Gone. An American first. These events are unrelated. Sheikh Tahnoun of Abu Dhabi paid $500 million for a 49% stake that was never publicly disclosed. Then the administration approved semiconductor exports to his companies over national security objections. These events are unrelated. Everything is unrelated. I track the unrelatedness on a dashboard I built. The dashboard has 7 columns now. I am proud of the dashboard. On May 22nd, 220 people paid a combined $148 million to eat dinner with the America First president. Over half were foreign nationals. Justin Sun paid $18.5 million for the first seat. He visited the Executive Office Building the day before. I designed the seating chart. I put it on the Investor Confidence page. That page is doing well. The team page lists 3 Witkoffs. All 3 are Co-Founders. Steven Witkoff is the President's Middle East envoy. He testified as a character witness at the President's fraud trial. His son Zach runs the crypto operation. His son Alex is also a Co-Founder. I have not been told what Alex co-founded. The father runs the diplomacy. The sons run the platform. The family runs both. That is organizational efficiency. Barron is 19. His title is Web3 Ambassador. The same as mine. Donald Jr. called the conflicts of interest "complete nonsense." Eric launched a Bitcoin mining company called American Bitcoin. America First. The mining partner is Hut 8. Hut 8 was founded in Canada. America First means the name. On March 6th, the President signed Executive Order 14233 creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The order directs the government to hold Bitcoin. The President's family holds billions in Bitcoin. The executive order appreciates the President's assets by presidential decree. I did not write the executive order. I made sure it looked unrelated to the portfolio. Trump Media put $2 billion of Bitcoin on its balance sheet. The ticker symbol is DJT. His initials. The press secretary said it is absurd to insinuate the President profits off the presidency. Forbes calculated his crypto holdings exceed the combined value of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower. I would call that absurd too. That is my job. 600,000 wallets bought in. 1 of them asked why she could not withdraw her funds. I told her the protocol was experiencing dynamic market conditions. She asked what that meant. I sent her the Gold Paper. She said she had read the Gold Paper. I muted her channel. Dynamic means the conditions change. The condition that changed was her access. A congressman called us the world's most corrupt crypto startup operation. We put it on a coffee mug. Ironic merchandise. $45. The revenue split on the mug is also 75/25. My own tokens vest on a different schedule. I wrote that schedule. That is not in the Gold Paper. The memecoin funds the family. The family funds the platform. The platform funds the stablecoin. The stablecoin funds the deals. The deals require the pardons. The pardons free the partners. The partners fund the platform. The President signs the executive orders. The executive orders inflate the assets. The assets fund the family. I am the reason these events are unrelated.

@BetterCallMedhi 1. what? Are you aware China uses linux right ?

France announcing a switch to Linux to reduce reliance on US tech in 2026 is peak digital colony behavior they think sovereignty is changing the wallpaper on gov laptops while US and China are literally rebuilding the global computing infrastructure with AI and custom silicon It’s like changing the brand of your steering wheel while someone else owns the entire highway

@anil_jose1 @GBX_Press france rejected it because of not wanting to share tech in the first place

@GBX_Press It is In a way good for India...if France looses Rafale contracts like this then India can force France to come to its kneels & give all source code with full ToT including engine tech. Blessing in Disguise.😅

🚨 BREAKING The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has withdrawn from the €5 billion Rafale F5 fighter jet project.

@danicuki @alice_und_bob what's your opinion of JAR? hard to valuate from outside

@alice_und_bob Are you sure?

JAR is the only interesting thing happening in Polkadot rn

@byteboro @itsbirdo_ "non-handicapped coding" ?

@itsbirdo_ vibe coding probably is entering its "we should get a better word for this" phase

anyone who says shit like this has no idea how software engineering in 2026 actually works

@itsyogesh18 @eischideraa_unn @Polkadot why tho? mantaining something with currently low traction seems quite some work. Will it be continued by Parity or will web3F fund it?

@eischideraa_unn @Polkadot Really appreciate it 🤩 The hackathon pushed me to build what I'd been wanting for a while - Polkadot deserves native dev tools, not patchy ethereum tooling. Its definitely live! Try it out at relaycode.org/studio and let me know what you think 🙏

One developer joined the first @Polkadot Solidity hackathon planning to build a small tool, but saw it wasn’t enough and, with just two days left, built and submitted a full coding platform (an IDE) instead — a much bigger and more useful product. @itsyogesh18 is the product now livem

@trq212 I had created a loop: 1. /init 2. find set of things to do small issues/ small features, deployments 3. solve them. 4. record findings 5. review what should go into the claude.md with the human. Quite complex but results were quite good.

we're testing a new version of /init based on your feedback- it should interview you and help setup skills, hooks, etc. you can enable it with this env_var flag: CLAUDE_CODE_NEW_INIT=1 claude would love your feedback!

@hessc300 @AshCrypto they didn't

@AshCrypto I wonder who we should thank..... O yea

BREAKING: France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan say they are ready to join efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

@sorpaas wouldn't be able to evaluate it. But wonder what parity/other implementers think of this. Did they give any opinion? or just silence?

Here you go -- our latest benchmark for Grey. We are now consistently beating PolkaVM in real-world scenarios. This includes secp256k1 ecrecover, a known bottleneck for building EVM services on top of JAM/JAR.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.