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Bitcoin Stamps Protocol December Release from @SqrrCrypto

As the mitigation process continues, we want to provide clarity on an important point. We strongly advise against trading or acquiring USR at this time. Onchain data indicates that illicitly minted USR has mixed with pre-hack USR across many wallets and continues to change hands on secondary markets. USR created illicitly by the exploiter was never backed by collateral and carries no redemption rights. Any transactions at this time carry a risk of involving illicit tokens and add complexity to the recovery process. We are in the early stages of evaluating recovery options for affected holders and cannot make guarantees, but any relief that may ultimately be available could be limited by continued trading activity. We are working closely with affected protocols to develop a resolution plan and will share details when ready.

Update on illicitly minted USR supply reduction Of the total 80M USR illicitly minted during the exploit on March 22, 2026, approx. 46M (~57%) has been permanently removed from circulation through a combination of burns and blacklisting. As a result, no illicitly minted assets remain on exploiter-associated addresses that could be further transferred or converted. Multiple steps have been taken to reduce the amount of 80M illicitly minted USR: → ~9M USR was burned across two transactions on March 22 • etherscan.io/tx/0xecf1f0575… • etherscan.io/tx/0x0d30bee89… → Another ~36M USR held by exploiter-associated wallets in a form of wstUSR was blacklisted. This was accomplished via a wstUSR contract upgrade, which required a 72-hour timelock initiation due to contract-level constraints. • etherscan.io/tx/0xa1ef88d38… → Remaining exploiter-held USR has been burned. • etherscan.io/tx/0x99c985c75…

Apple just turned 35 million UK iPhones into identity checkpoints. Apple has, without warning, placed a gatekeeper on the devices of 35 million UK users who paid good money for full-featured smartphones and now find themselves holding something closer to a supervised children’s tablet...

Canada's Public Safety Minister says Bill C-22 is not a surveillance bill. But then he described a bill that stores every Canadian's location data, device identifiers, and daily movements for a year. Not just suspects. Everyone.

Today, several teams at the EF are launching pq.ethereum.org, a dedicated resource for Ethereum's post-quantum security effort. What started with early STARK-based signature aggregation research in 2018 has grown into a coordinated, multi-team effort, all open source. The Post-Quantum team and Cryptography teams, with help from the Protocol Architecture and Protocol Coordination teams, have been working on this body of work for 8+ years. At pq.ethereum.org you'll find: - How PQ impacts each protocol layer - The full PQ roadmap (strawmap.org) - Open resources: repos, specs, papers, EIPs - FAQ: 14 questions across 5 categories, written by the PQ team - A 6-part lean Ethereum interview series (@zeroknowledgefm) - Interest form for the 2nd Annual PQ Research Retreat (Cambridge, UK, Oct 2026) - 10+ client teams are already building and shipping devnets weekly through PQ Interop. All the work is public and all of it is open. pq.ethereum.org

New post: Private Crosschain Atomic Swaps (Part 2 of 2) Part 1 built the shielded pool and stealth addresses. The missing piece was coordination. How do two institutions reveal secrets simultaneously without trusting each other? This post opens the black box.

An algorithm said Angela Lipps committed bank fraud in North Dakota. Police arrested her, no questions asked. 108 days in jail. She lost her home, her car, her dog. The only thing that got her out was her own bank records proving she was 1,200 miles away. This is what happens when facial recognition is treated as evidence...

BREAKING: GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information

Every token should have its minting system transparently monitored. Here are the minters for USDC on Ethereum, for example, many contracts/multisigs/eoas are involved in nested levels. However, they have a max mint amount assigned in the role mapping for extra protection.

We are currently investigating a security incident involving unauthorized minting of USR. At this stage: The collateral pool remains fully intact. No underlying assets have been lost. The issue appears isolated to USR issuance mechanics. Our immediate priority is to: 1) Contain the incident 2) Assess impact 3) Ensure legitimate users are not affected We are actively investigating and will share more updates shortly.

8.6 million Swedes use BankID for basically everything. Government. Banking. Tax filings. Their entire digital life through one system. A hacker group just leaked the source code for it. This is what centralized digital ID actually looks like when it goes wrong...

Without additional funding, Session's doors will close next month. Please read this appeal from Session co-founder Chris McCabe. getsession.org/donation

The full LUCID encrypted mempool EIP-8184 is now up! LUCID is a public encrypted mempool for commit-before-reveal inclusion of MEV-sensitive transactions, without enshrining a specific encryption scheme. With coauthors @_julianma and @robocopsgonemad ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-8184-luc…

The library card was the first anonymous internet. Think about what it actually was: a system that let you access any idea, any book, any piece of information - without anyone recording what you looked at. The librarian knew your name. They did not know what you read. That separation was considered not just acceptable but sacred. The American Library Association fought surveillance requests from law enforcement for decades on exactly this principle. What you read is nobody's business. The act of seeking knowledge is private. The library is a room where curiosity has no consequences. The library card model - access without record was never ported to the digital world. Let there be Dark!

Deflationary processes have greatly benefited households and businesses under the current fiat dollar standard, even though their natural operation has been deliberately stifled by the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy. | Joseph T. Salerno @jtsale mises.org/misesian/dange…

fastconfirm.it The fast confirmation rule is incredible So many years in the making. Super excited to see it finally ship!

The CLARITY Act aims to create a market structure for cryptocurrencies, but one part of the bill lays out how the market should be surveilled. @EconWithNick's piece on the CLARITY Act shows how it adds another brick to the wall of financial surveillance. cato.org/blog/market-st…

Yesterday was the 14th day since the war began. Update on the national average of gasoline prices.

Canada's new surveillance bill requires every electronic service provider to store your location data, device info, and other metadata for a year. Not just suspects. Everyone. Just in case police want it later.

The only way to defeat the government is to stop using their money.