//Rob Behnke

After bootstrapping our cybersecurity firm w/ my cofounder @halbornsteve to a staff of 100+ and a client count of 200+, @HalbornSecurity announced our $90m Series A! A thread on our journey 🧵👇

Crypto Security: Risks, Reality, and Road Ahead by: @francescpicc of @AlmanaxAI @robbehnke of @HalbornSecurity @idobn of @blockaid_ @PulchraMens of @LightNodeVent Full video below 👇🧵

Blockchain technology is rapidly moving from vision to implementation 🚀 At ACCESS 26, @robbehnke joined @thinkingcrypto to talk about his background, how Halborn helps institutions with security, and recent developments shaping the digital assets space.

Conspiracy theorists right now 🥂

Kicking off our 3rd year at NYSE. Never gets old.

@cmichelio the only proper alpha post on this topic in all of the ct noise. gg.

Biggest risk for security agent startups: no moat. I used to think the harness mattered, then coding agents went from thousand-token system prompts to "just do the task" with a bash shell. So the moat probably isn’t that part, it’s the human-in-loop + data pipeline (bug bounties, on-chain deployed code, etc). #toc_11" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-…

@DougieDeLuca Incredible Take, Dougie. With all of the institutional adoption we've been shouting about for a decade now happening, we're entering a new world and most OG's will not be able to evolve.

It is absolutely wild to me that the U.S. is printing money out of thin air and debasing the dollar by ~8% a year and yet 99% of people have literally ZERO idea it’s happening.

As an avid TCG collector, I approve of this initiative. 🫡 ⁦@keoneHD⁩ Happy to be / pull a foil.

@nic_carter yeah because you’re deadnaming the platform. Shame!

Twitter is falsely accusing me of “platform manipulation” and gave me a “temporary label which will impact my reach”

lots of sophisticated phishing attacks going around lately. all of these have been attempted on me. sadly seen a lot of cases where people did lose funds in these ways: - real person (hacked) you've interacted before DMs you on TG and asks to catch up, send a zoom, looks like a real-ish zoom URL, asks you to download a client to "fix" audio, everything drained - credible/real news org DMs you out of the blue on their official X account, asks for an interview, send you to a (fake) TG account, sends the (fake but real-looking) zoom link. this has happened to me with (major) news orgs that didn't even know they were hacked - one of your "colleagues" asks for funds via email, email looks real, but headers are faked - blitz of messages saying your coinbase has been hacked, yadda yadda, "support" calls and asks you to move your assets to a temporary address with some time pressure ("the "hackers" submitted the transaction but you still have time!") general rules of thumb (not exhaustive) - use @CasaHODL - use @River for a custodial option - don't keep a ton of funds on browser wallets like m*tamask or ph*ntom - don't google crypto platforms and click the first link (hackers buy ads to put fake links in there) - secure everything, not just wallets. this includes google, telegram, icloud, etc. - don't answer phone calls from "support". hang up and call back on the official support line if you have to - don't trust anything you hear on the phone especially if you're being pressured to do something - don't answer calls from unknown numbers even if they seem like they're from "Google" or "Coinbase" - be suspicious of emails or DMs from your "colleagues". know that email headers can be faked (ask AI for help analyzing headers if youre suspicious) - double check that DMs from "friends" are real and they haven't been hacked - make sure you have physical 2fa + authy/google authenticator on everything - avoid SMS based 2fa wherever possible

@loopscale Congrats and Well done Loopscale team!

Following successful negotiations, all funds taken from the Loopscale protocol (5,726,725 USDC + 1,211 SOL) on April 26th have now been returned. Users will incur no loss of deposits from this incident. Additional details (including information on vault withdrawals) to follow.

CULTURE! CULTURE! CULTURE! I’m beyond proud to share that @HalbornSecurity has been officially Great Place to Work-Certified! When you treat your people with empathy, give them a real stake in the journey (yes, stock options matter!), give engineers hard problems to solve with the most important names in the industry, create space where they can really contribute and continue to learn... you don’t just build a business. You build loyalty, passion, and a top culture. Entrepreneurship is relentless. It tests your will at every turn. But through every challenge, we’ve stayed laser-focused on what matters most: our culture. And today, that focus has been validated in the best way possible. To our amazing team of Halbornauts, THANK YOU! This is your achievement as much as it is ours. Here’s to continuing to make Halborn not just a great place to work, but the best place to grow, innovate, and thrive together. 🚀 Oh, by the way, we're hiring! halborn.com/careers

@wmougayar sure, but in reality, we’re only a few partnership/business development agreements away from Solana overtaking in the coming years.

"95% Settled on Ethereum." Let that sink in. Don't let any other blockchain tell you they have a foothold in finance if they are not Ethereum. Truth and data talks. Bullshit walks. Stablecoins Process $27.6 Trillion in 2024, Surpassing Visa With 95% Settled on Ethereum thedefiant.io/news/blockchai…

ChatGPT turned my prompts into a @wizards_magic card. Legendary Artifact Creature — Human Founder Taps for idea tokens and mana. Perfect with meta artifact/token decks. Slayer of unoriginal ghiblis and action figures.

@nic_carter you’re spot on. no debate.

a lot of people denying that this is a thing. i'm telling you, go ask your 10 furthest left friends what they think of AI and report back to me. seriously go do it and leave a comment.

i've noticed a weird aversion to using AI on the left. not sure if it's a climate or an IP thing or what, but it seems like a massive self-own to deduct yourself 30+ points of IQ because you don't like the tech

@samczsun @paradigm @matthuang Congrats Ser! 🫡 It's incredible what comes with/from true focus. If full focus is going to SEAL, it will flourish.

after nearly 4.5 years at @paradigm, it's with a bittersweet feeling that i finish writing this chapter of my life story. when @matthuang messaged me in 2020, never in my wildest dreams could i have imagined where that journey would take me. thank you 🎵 youtube.com/watch?v=oVvDdS…

@Melt_Dem What's the grade though?

my friend just sent me this photo and the way i screamed 🥵😭🥵

show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome. EOS didn’t work because you can’t give someone $4 billion and then expect them to have any kind of interest in actually executing. Ever since then all they’ve been doing is white washing those investor funds with voice.com, and now Bullish and CoinDesk. It genuinely amazes me that Block one is still a company and still actually employs people.

Why Solana won and EOS didn't. About 7 years ago (2018) I got interested in the EOS Blockchain, which promised to deliver extremely fast transactions, at low prices. Essentially "Ethereum on Steroids", as the name indicated. If it sounded like Solana, you are basically right. Same VC: MultiCoin Capital, same performance for the average user (more or less instanteous), much fewer validators (21 active versus 1,000) -- but the average user couldn't care less. So why did EOS not make it, and Solana did? In my opinion, it was mainly timing. EOS came out in 2018, just as the SEC started cracking down on ICOs. DeFi hadn't really started yet, and neither had the token creation / speculation casino that Bitcoiners love to criticize. The mood was somber. And while Block1, the creators of EOS raised 4 Billion, the funds were tied up legally and never deployed in the EOS ecosystem. By 2020, when Solana emerged, we were off to the races. NFTs had emerged. DeFi was in full swing, and a number of new blockchains were the talk of the town. Solana had great branding, as the "fastest possible", and the backing of FTX, which if we can remember, was perceived as king of the hill. Solana could have died in the crash of 2022, but they had lots and lots of money, and the story was too good to put down. At the end of the day, they scooped up all the users with the "Ethereum but faster and cheaper narrative". The Phantom wallet, and a number of great ecosystem components (Raydium, Jupiter) rounded out the offering. The critcical mass, which EOS just missed, was achieved. (I built the leading EOS wallet, and I love Phantom. Good stuff). As evan, the cofounder of SUI points out, the race isn't "over", but Solana has a big lead. And regardless of who wins, the user experience (wallets, dexes, apps) has now been figured out and is going to absolutely work IMHO over the next 5 years. Esp with a crypto friendly admin. Chris Dixon will be right. Web3 is going to happen.

@dancingastro @BrooklynMirage WoooooooW

The new @BrooklynMirage redesign 🚨 ▪️New 270° virtual environment with combined 30K resolution, 100 million pixels and 3,000 tiles ▪️New wall features the world’s first fully kinetic shutter system of this scale in a live music venue, which can close to feature no LEDs ▪️Incorporates a new timber structure that measures 197 x 164 ft and 65 ft tall ▪️Custom-built L-Acoustics sound system ▪️100+ precision-calibrated speakers and subwoofers strategically placed around Mirage ▪️90-foot-wide performance area ▪️400,000-pound roof rigging capacity ▪️Opera-style balconies installed above floor ▪️Expanding to 6,250 capacity (from 4,500) ▪️Outside of Mirage has updated perimeter lighting, signage, rideshare zones and increased cell service Mirage reopens on May 1 with Sara Landry (📸 via @BrooklynMirage)

Thrilled to join @Crypto_ISAC as a founding member and drive best in class threat intelligence sharing for the industry. This partnership aligns with Halborn’s mission to enable the next wave of financial innovation, especially as blockchain adoption grows amid rising cyber threats.