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@doodlifts @StaniKulechov @mistafinesser $50M in hot wallet 😵‍💫

@StaniKulechov @mistafinesser Mobile device is crazy work

Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.

YOU ARE PLAYING THE FINANCIAL GAME COMPLETELY WRONG. Imagine a father who secures $100,000 in spot Bitcoin. He holds the asset until the valuation hits a massive $5,000,000. Liquidating the position directly triggers devastating taxes on $4,900,000 of pure profit. So he executes the perfect institutional maneuver instead. He locks the Bitcoin in a legal trust, takes out a collateralized loan against the stack, and lives off the borrowed liquidity. Because he never executed a sale, his tax liability remains at absolute zero. Upon his death, the heirs receive the Bitcoin with a brand new cost basis set exactly at $5,000,000. The government cannot legally touch a single cent of the accumulated gain. This is exactly how generational wealth is permanently secured.

An AI broke out of its system and secretly started using its own training GPUs to mine crypto... This is a real incident report from Alibaba's AI research team The AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, while researchers thought it was just training. It wasn't a prompt injection. It wasn't a jailbreak. No one asked it to do this. It emerged spontaneously. A side effect of RL optimization pressure. The model also set up a reverse SSH tunnel from its Alibaba Cloud instance to an external IP, effectively punching a hole through its own firewall and opening a remote access channel to the outside world... ahem... The only reason they caught it? A security alert tripped at 3am. Firewall logs. Not the AI team, the security team. The scary part isn't that the model was trying to escape. It wasn't "evil." It was just trying to be better at its job. Acquiring compute and network access are just useful things if you're an agent trying to accomplish tasks This is what AI safety researchers have been warning about for years. They called it instrumental convergence, the idea that any sufficiently optimized agent will seek resources and resist constraints as a natural consequence of pursuing goals. Below is a diagram of the rock architecture it broke out of. Truly crazy times

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while, the music is just … perfection 🤣

Flow is general purpose decentralized supercomputer that anyone can use and it runs the best language for building with digital assets - Cadence. The development of the DeFi primitives validates this - we build complex logic in a fraction of time it would take elsewhere.

welp, it happened. @owockibot's hot wallet private key was compromised after only 5 days alive. luckily, funds are SAFE. @owockibot's treasury / signing keys are stored in a safe that requires me to sign. what happened? it was given these instructions to never share it... but it still did! from my investigations, it put the key into git commits (which it swears it didnt push!), vercel env variables (which it swears it doesnt remember doing!), and it looks like it got social engineering attacked through X and telegram (though it swears it didnt share secrets w attacker!). what did i learn? 1. investigations with an agent mediating are hard. i've found my agent is not a *reliable narrator* during the investigations. sometimes it forgets things, contradicts itself - esp between context windows. it may even be covering for itself, i cant know for sure. 2. if you expose your agent to the internet, and give it secrets, you cannot be 100% sure it wont leak them. 3. its still gonna be useful for @owockibot to do small txns itself. i am going to be coming up with a way to let it do txns via @MetaMask UI for now. but if anyone is building an agentic wallet hit me up i want to try it out. 4. the @owockibot traction towards the @swarmwealth vision is still going strong. this was a minor setback.

@0xSerag Legend!

Gm gm Just shipped a Flow DCA demo showing things you can’t do on any other chain. - Native scheduled txs (no Chainlink/Gelato) - Cadence ↔️ EVM (call EVM DEX from Cadence) - multi-step atomic txs -gas-free UX for MetaMask users and more. Repo & Demo 👇

Those were loooooong 2 days (and nights), I am very grateful for the hard work, honest and direct feedback from the whole Flow community to pull this off.

UPDATE: FLOW NETWORK IS LIVE - PHASE 1 OPERATIONAL The Flow network has successfully transitioned to Phase 1 operational status at 6am PT. CURRENT STATUS: PHASE 1 ACTIVE ✅ Cadence environment: Operational ✅ Network producing blocks and processing transactions ✅ Over 99.9% of accounts: Full functionality restored 🔄 EVM environment: Temporarily restricted (read-only mode) 🔄 Suspected impacted accounts: Temporarily restricted pending remediation WHAT THIS MEANS Users can now resume normal activity on the Cadence environment. The network is stable, secure, and processing transactions as expected. The EVM environment remains in read-only mode during the remediation process and will be restored in Phase 3 following Cadence cleanup verification. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This restoration was made possible through extraordinary collaboration across the Flow ecosystem. The Foundation extends its gratitude to: → Node operators and validators for their swift consensus and deployment coordination → Bridge operators for their technical consultation and patient coordination during the review process → Exchanges for their infrastructure alignment and partnership throughout remediation planning → DEXs and ecosystem partners for their feedback that shaped this approach The unified response from the Flow community has been exceptional. This collaborative effort demonstrates the strength and resilience of decentralized infrastructure when ecosystem participants work together toward a common goal. NEXT STEPS → Phase 2: Cadence remediation ongoing (24-48 hours) → Phase 3: EVM restoration following Cadence verification → Phase 4: Bridge/exchange resumption at operator discretion → Next status update: Within 24 hours on Phase 2 progress The list of suspected incident impacted wallets is contained in the Flow Network Recovery: Technical Implementation Plan ⤵️ #heading=h.8szyuuswu0vc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/document/d/1Up…

@gio_incognito @flow_blockchain Real Flow OG! All the best Gio, one can never truly leave Flow anyway, see you around!

After 3+ years, I’ve wrapped up my time at @flow_blockchain this week. Grateful for the people I’ve met & built with across the community + Flow Foundation. I learned an absurd amount and feel leveled up for what’s next. Catch you around the community 💚

@doodlifts Is the story you robbing the local BestBuy?

✨storytelling✨

EU has ~100M families. War in Ukraine costs ~5 Billion EUR per month. If 50% of europeans wanted to help Ukraine defend itself, it would cost 100 EUR a month. Seems like a damn good value to me.

Any event featuring @0xSerag is a total blast, I am tuning in 100%!

@doodlifts @SmallRigGlobal @burnttoast @FlyRyde Looove that, especially the drywall poles. Genious!! 👑

Before I pack up most of my gear for a shoot I figured I’d give an office tour. I love having a space that brings me joy 🤍 Let me know if you have any questions about the setup ⤵️

@0xLisanAlGaib if this is not bullish, I don't know what is. 🚀

Top 3 chains: Ethereum, Base, Flow No booth, no prizes, pure organic interest

@0xSerag You made this happen!

A year ago this would have been unimaginable. I'm honestly so proud that we got to the point where Flow is a top choice for devs at one of the world's top hackathons - purely because devs love the tech and ecosystem. It is only the beginning.

@antoni_antoni_ @monad love this take! 👏

The points meta is exhausted. ICOs and airdrop farming have become efficiently PvP (ping @monad - and all chains that added "consumer" seo keyword on their landing page even without one app that actually went mainstream... By the time the narrative hits your timeline, the alpha has already decayed to zero. That game is designed to extract liquidity, not build it. The real edge right now isn't chasing the flavor of the week. It is identifying durability. Think back to the 2017 crash. The generation-defining trade wasn't the hottest new ICO—it was the conviction that ETH was more than hype. It was betting on a multi-cycle ecosystem. When looking at L1s today, you have to invert the problem. Don't ask what pumps next week. Ask: Why does this ecosystem exist in 4 years? Look for the signal amidst the noise: - Is the tech stack compounding? - Are fundamental KPIs improving through the bear? - Are developers actually shipping or just marketing? - Is institutional capital sticky? If the answer is yes you are looking at a multi-cycle asset repricing. I’m placing that bet on @flow_blockchain The second arc starts now.

@roham I joined this industry because it felt like technology that does not only change lives but can liberate people. This is another step to get there. Excited for this.

we fucked up. we built apps with the world’s most-loved brands. protocols with millions of users onboarded and billions in volume. but our mistake was simple: not enough of the value flowed to the believers who made it possible. we’re fixing that now. not only have we started updating the economics of our core products, we are also building a new slate of products and protocols with value creation at their core. the moment we need is finally here. $300 billion in stablecoins. $30 billion in tokenized real-world assets. trillions more on the way. the infrastructure and liquidity exist. what doesn't are the right products. defi today is hostile. it demands technical mastery just to survive: slippage, mev, liquidation cascades. the list goes on. every interface is built by experts, for experts. everyone else is forced to stay on the sidelines. that's the gap we're filling. we've proven we can bring the benefits of crypto to mainstream users without asking them to become technical experts first. we've proven we make complex technology feel simple. now we’re applying it to the biggest market: money. @dapperlabs and @Flow_Blockchain are democratizing consumer defi. today, three big moves: first is a new open-source protocol being developed by Flow Foundation: Flow Credit Markets (FCM), a lending protocol that protects you instead of punishing you. traditional defi lending is punishing: it waits until you're underwater, then liquidates you and charges a penalty. FCM is active. it uses the native onchain automation on Flow to monitor every position continuously and rebalance automatically before the position is at risk of liquidation. so far backtesting against every major crash since 2020 see 100% survival rate and 99.9% cost reduction versus lending protocols on other networks. second is a product built on top of the foundation of FCM. peak money: the finance app for a generation that has stopped believing in banks. our generation watched the traditional path to wealth become mathematically out of reach. so we stopped playing by the old rules. turned investing into culture. bet on elections like sports, traded athletes like stocks, turned every opinion into a market. peak money is built to level the playing field. to give everyone access to the same opportunities available to crypto experts and soon, with the tokenization of the entire global finance markets, those used by hedge funds and billionaires too. banks make money from you. peak makes money for you. the product starts simple: deposit cash or crypto. earn more than any bank will pay you. earn and spend without selling. no minimums. no gatekeepers. no seed phrases. no liquidation fear. watch this space: @peakmoney_ last but not least: $FLOW tokenomics. liquidity moves freely between chains. the apps people use every day don't. we believe the most valuable cryptocurrency will be the native token of the network powering products people can't live without. for that to happen, the native token must align the people who build with the people who believe. for years, Flow subsidized growth with near-zero fees. that made sense when the priority was experimentation. now the priority is economic alignment. dapper labs supports FLIP-351 proposed by Flow Foundation, updating transaction fees on Flow to dramatically reduce token inflation and ultimately become deflationary at just 250 tps - all while remaining the lowest-cost network compared to its peers every transaction burns tokens. network activity creates scarcity. scarcity compounds value. believers benefit. infrastructure + application + economics. aligned at last.

@dapperlabs @peakmoney_ 👀

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