Edward

@big_duca Sorry to hear, it has been a rough month for crypto opsec

Hello friends, On the evening of April 1st, Awaken was attacked. The whole day was a tough day for crypto. And that evening, while I was at dinner with my fiancee’s family celebrating our engagement, our alarms went off. We started investigating. And noticed an attacker had gained unauthorized access to parts of our system. Since discovering the attack, our team has worked with third-party forensic experts to confirm containment and document the scope of the incident. Because this investigation is ongoing, we will notify users over email of the details. But I want to share that during the attack, the attacker stole information that will likely be used in social engineering and phishing attempts. So please be vigilant. We put suggestions in our email, and my personal email is below. A lot of people are concerned about 1099-DAs. In general, we minimize the amount of user data we store. These files specifically are stored securely (signed access) and encrypted at rest. At this time, our investigation has found no evidence that these files were accessed. While this attack was happening, I avoided posting on X. It felt weird bc I like to overshare. Tbh, I was a bit scared. I know that right now, whoever attacked us is reading this message. Ultimately, it’s our responsibility to do everything in our power to make sure this does not happen again. Like any crypto company, we expect to continue being targeted. So we are redoubling our security efforts. We started working with the chads @0xGroomLake on penetration testing and opsec. We work really hard to build a great product bc our team loves crypto. We really fucking care. And we aren’t going anywhere. If you have specific questions, my email is: andrew@awaken.tax.

@0xDamian0x @lifiprotocol Check out @herd_eco's MCP! docs.herd.eco

After 9 months @lifiprotocol, I'm moving on to a new chapter. I got to work on some genuinely interesting problems across narrative, content, branding, and thought leadership. But a new age is coming... What's next??? I'm turning my attention to onchain data and research, and tinkering with some tools I've been meaning to build for a while. Longer term, I'm open to the right Head of Marketing, Ecosystem/Growth or BD role at a serious B2B team (consumer's fun, but dealing with token pressure in this economy is not...) If that's you, DM me. And if it's not, then I'm down for a coffee and a chat anyway. Don't be a stranger!

@AndersonAndrue Will test this out in Droid, thanks for the rec. been using it on medium

Totally agree, GPT5.4 XHigh is best hands down and I used to be a huge opus fanboy

@dexhorthy @andrewhong5297 hang out with this cool guy

hey new york friends I'll be in NYC Friday 17th and Saturday 18th - who wants to meet up for lunch/coffee and/or talk about agentic coding and/or walk in the park etc

@crispheaney Oh wow, did not realize you left But yeah super sad to hear 😔

AX is important, but I'm still ensuring I understand the tech my agents are choosing, because i'm the one who's gonna have to debug it at 3am if the agents cant

@bedesqui @rivet_dev @bunjavascript Whoa

Hey @rivet_dev , agent os' is literally unusable with @bunjavascript as a package manager... and it's not rivet's fault, been banging my head against the wall on this one, and turns out a literal package manager cannot install some package versions 😵‍💫😵‍💫 github.com/oven-sh/bun/is…

@reynardoew Did you try out any other AI gateway solutions like Portkey or Vercel before making this change?

at defillama we reduced our ai costs by more than 40% while also speeding ups time to first tokens just by switching from openrouter to direct underlying provider (same model)

@redacted_noah @toly I did not know this myself until I started writing NEAR smart contracts back in 22, I had to double take

@longtilwrong @toly Lawd I don’t think I ever looked closely at the org

Solana if we had never started using Borsh

@redacted_noah @toly github.com/near/borsh

@longtilwrong @toly Wait what I never knew that

Tragically I am continuing to find that the most effective guardrail against slop is extremely talented engineers doing very thoughtful, human code review

@shcallaway I'm still waiting 😂😂😂

This was a joke obviously. Sazabi is my dream! 🤩 But in all seriousness, this is my first time getting liquidity in ~10 years of working at startups and it feels GOOD 🥳

> invents the hardest money the world has ever known > refuses to elaborate > dies

@uttam_singhk @andrewhong5297 the 🐐

at this point if you don’t have people on your team constantly monitoring the space or terminally online, I’m bearish.

Was curious about @FactoryAI's Droid, at first thought it was Rust but turns out it is a compiled Bun binary the same as Claude Code. Includes a few bonuses too such as Rust's PTY handling for shell/process management

@0xblacklight @martinfowler BASED

@longtilwrong @martinfowler Yep

Imagine reading “Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code” by @martinfowler here

just added a highly requested features - we now support diamond proxies in herd! I call it "signature implementation" since there are plenty of teams who use this implementation-forwarding-per-signature pattern without actually using the diamond standard. fun to see some contracts with 400 functions across implementations lol

Quality code takes time