If someone looked at your on-chain address, what would they say about you? Mine: > survived 2018/19, 2023, and 2026 > claims airdrops he forgets to sell > so much worthless $UST > revokes approvals like a paranoid crypto Gen X’er Yours?

Number 1 growth hack on X: post like the person you'd want to follow Number 2: selfie in front of a monument in a foreign country. Works every time

One of the better dark comedies I’ve seen in a long time

“Everything is crypto.” - @tarunchitra

Life update: I just submitted my first Sci Fi short story for publication Wish me luck

It's not just you. Crypto has lost $2.2B+ to hacks this year and five incidents did 69% of it JANUARY ($366.3M) >Trezor user, fake support scam (individual): $282M >Step Finance: $27.3M >Truebit: $26.4M >SwapNet: $13.4M >SagaEVM: $7.0M >Makina Finance: $5.1M >Aperture Finance: $3.7M >TMX Tribe: $1.4M FEBRUARY ($19.4M) >YieldBlox: $10.2M >IoTeX ioTube bridge: $4.4M >CrossCurve: $3.0M >Moonwell: $1.8M MARCH ($75.9M) >Resolv Labs: $25.0M >"Sillytuna" (individual): $24.0M >Kraken user (individual): $18.2M >Venus Protocol: $3.7M >Solv Protocol: $2.7M >Foom Cash: $2.3M APRIL ($616.0M) >Kelp DAO: $292M >Drift Protocol: $285M >Rhea Finance: $18.4M >Grinex: $13.1M >Wasabi Protocol: $5.0M >GiddyDeFi: $1.3M >CowSwap: $1.2M MAY ($41.0M) >Cork Protocol: $12.0M >Verus-Ethereum Bridge: $11.6M >THORChain: $10.7M >TrustedVolumes: $6.7M JUNE ($58.8M) >Humanity Protocol: $31.0M >Syscoin Bridge: $10.0M >JaredFromSubway MEV bot: $7.5M >Aztec Connect (two hacks): $4.2M >SecondFi wallet users: $2.4M >Thetanuts Finance: $2.1M >Token of Power: $1.6M JULY ($216.5M) >Coldcard users, firmware seed bug: $112.7M >AFX Bridge: $24.2M >Ostium: $23.8M >BonkDAO: $20.0M >Triple-A: $11.8M >Wanchain bridge: $10.0M >Verus-Ethereum Bridge (again): $8.0M >SummerFi: $6.0M AUGUST ($34.3M, plus Tectonic) >Unnamed wallet (individual): $25.6M >Moonwell (again): $8.7M >Tectonic: ~$74M borrowed, mostly undone by a Cronos rollback SEPTEMBER ($740.2M) Bitget: $387.5M >Liquid Network: $320M >DCENT app wallet users: $18.0M >Gnosis Safe user (individual): $7.7M >Duelbits: $7.0M OCTOBER, so far ($101.0M) >Ledger buyers via reseller CryptoBilis: $93.2M >NEAR Intents: $3.8M >Initia: $2.7M >Qubic: $1.3M

.@aztecnetwork pays about 24% APR to stake $AZTEC Its devs could walk away tomorrow and the chain would keep running That's what Stage 2 means: no admin or Security Council can override the protocol, and its core rollup contracts are immutable Why so high? Aztec is a young network bootstrapping security, so it pays early stakers while participation is low How to stake: > Delegate on stake.aztec.network (200K AZTEC per delegation) > Pool with @Olla_Finance and get liquid stAztec > Run your own sequencer (if you're the hardware crowd) Picking a sequencer: > Compare commission and capacity > Check uptime and attestations on dashtec.xyz > Check slashing history on haveibeenslashed.xyz > Verify how rewards actually get paid What can go wrong: > Slashing, usually 2K to 5K AZTEC per offense > Ejection if a sequencer drops below 190K > At least 4 days to unstake, roughly 10 if locked in governance > Volatility and smart contract bugs Full walkthrough in the article 👇

Starknet's vote came back 93.52% in favor of researching a move off Ethereum to its own post-quantum L1 It doesn't want to wait on Ethereum to turn in its quantum resistance homework (due Dec 2029) What happened 👇 > Non-binding Snapshot poll, Oct 15 to 22, open to ethereum:0xca14007eff0db1f8135f4c25b34de49ab0d42766 stakers and delegators > 3,236 votes cast > The bridge and data availability sit on Ethereum, which uses quantum-vulnerable elliptic curve cryptography > STARK proofs already run on post-quantum hash functions > Account abstraction lets wallets opt into post-quantum signatures without a protocol upgrade > @Starknet's target for full quantum security is 2027 What's next: a white paper in the coming weeks Does Ethereum ship post-quantum by 2029, or is each L2 going to prepare a bug-out bag?