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Akto Run🔺 retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Hiding your coins in a bunker won't save your blockchain. Given the risks AI poses to fundamental cryptography, I propose every chain implement a "cryptographic recovery mode":
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Let me introduce you to ODS, one click install that runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows
Once you install ODS, it 1) detects your hardware, 2) downloads the best model for your hardware, and 3) starts local inference and gives you an agent to use
It works on any hardware and sets you up for the most seamless Local AI user experience
With ODS, you can also add 1) voice, 2) agents like Hermes, 3) workflows, 4) RAG, 5) search, 6) image generation, and more
ODS is the whole Local AI stack from one dashboard, also comes with a modular plugin system for everything you can imagine and more
No cloud required, no subscription required, and your prompts and data stay on your machine unless you choose otherwise
We're gonna make Local AI The Default
github.com/Osmantic/ODS
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
astonishing blogpost from Shengyu Liu (刘胜与, also known as interestingLSY/intlsy), kernel engineer at DeepSeek. The first part is his personal struggle with the fact that his work is about to render his beloved craft obsolete. The second is…
well. let's just say we agree.
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Local AI hardware = capacity * bandwidth * software stack
- Capacity tells you what fits
- Bandwidth tells you how hard the box can breathe
- The software stack tells you how much of the spec sheet you can actually cash out.
Hardware by Memory Bandwidth
- Mac Studio M3 Ultra: up to 512GB @ 819 GB/s
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: 96GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 5090: 32GB @ 1792 GB/s
- RTX 4090: 24GB @ 1008 GB/s
- RX 7900 XTX: 24GB @ 960 GB/s
- Radeon PRO W7900: 48GB @ 864 GB/s
- AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700: 32GB @ 640 GB/s
- Intel Arc Pro B65: 32GB @ ~608 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Wormhole n300: 24GB @ 576 GB/s
- Tenstorrent Blackhole p150: 32GB @ 512 GB/s + 800G
- MacBook Pro M5 Max: 460-614 GB/s
- MacBook Pro M5 Pro: 307 GB/s
- DGX Spark: 128GB @ 273 GB/s (coherent + CUDA)
- Mac mini M4 Pro: 273 GB/s
- Ryzen AI Max / Strix Halo: ~256 GB/s (~96GB usable GPU)
- MacBook Air M5: 153 GB/s
- Snapdragon X2 Elite: 152-228 GB/s
- Intel Lunar Lake: 136 GB/s
- Snapdragon X Elite: 135 GB/s
- Mac mini M4: 120 GB/s
- Arc Pro B60: 24GB @ ~456 GB/s
Verdict
- GPUs are still the bandwidth kings
- Apple wins: stupid amounts of memory, don't want to shard across GPUs
- Apple loses: when raw tokens/sec & concurrency matter more
- DGX Spark: coherent memory + NVIDIA stack
- Strix Halo / Ryzen AI Max: first real x86 unified-memory contender
- Tenstorrent: fully OSS stack, excited to see this mature
Fitting != serving
Even if it fits, you still pay for
- bandwidth during decode
- KV cache growth
- dequantization
- batching + concurrency
- scheduler quality
- framework overhead
The only mental model that matters:
1. What must fit?
2. What bandwidth tier do I need?
3. What software stack can actually deliver it?
In short:
- NVIDIA -> fastest raw speed
- Apple Studio M3 Ultra -> biggest one-box memory
- Strix Halo -> first real x86 unified
- DGX Spark -> coherent NVIDIA dev appliance
- AMD / Intel Arc -> rising alternatives
- Tenstorrent -> fully opensource stack
Ask: "which bottleneck am I buying?"
Do not ask: "which hardware is best?"
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Honestly @Rabby_io, this is disgusting
Before I even set up my wallet, you are sending my data to
- your matomo instance
- and just in case track me on Google Analytics
- and to be really sure dump my data into Sentry
I hereby kindly inform you that this is a breach of your Privacy Policy (yes, the one that you last looked at 5 years ago) and a gross violation of GDPR Articles 13 and 46.
Please stop tracking me at your earliest convenience. Thank you.
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Hundreds of wallets (many of which haven't been active in 7+ years) just got drained by the same address on ETH mainnet
Seems like a new live exploit, worth flagging
Funds left my wallet to this address. Not sure what the vulnerability surface is. Others are getting zeroed out as well. Mainnet ETH only and strangely SAI:
etherscan.io/address/0xa7070…
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
The $290M rsETH bridge exploit appears to be the result of a compromised 1-of-1 DVN configuration on @LayerZero_Core
The sole validator was @LayerZero_Labs itself, meaning one forged transaction from a single entity was sufficient to drain the entire bridge
In other words, a single point of failure (either private key or 3rd party RPC compromise)
I flagged this centralization risk years ago, unfortunate that it took an exploit for the issue to get broader attention
.@LayerZero_Core’s marketing is so incredibly misleading at times, it’s absurd
Take their “Decentralized Verifier Networks (DVNs)” for example
DVNs are the infrastructure responsible for validating cross-chain transactions in the LayerZero ecosystem
By the name, you would assume a DVN by definition is a decentralized network of node operators, right?
Well no, in most instances the term “DVN” actually refers to a centralized company (a single node operator)
Take their most popular DVN for example, which by default is used by most projects and therefore their associated volume in the LayerZero ecosystem
It’s the “LayerZero DVN”, a centralized node run by the LayerZero Labs team themselves
Not decentralized, but still called a decentralized network anyways, pretty continent security theater marketing
Imagine you’re a user and you’re told a dApp’s cross-chain interactions are secured by the “LayerZero Decentralized Verifier Network”
What impression is the user supposed to get from that other than thinking it’s a decentralized network and not a single centralized node?
Now some may try to explain away this terminology by saying that a DVN could theoretically be decentralized in some circumstances
But looking at the official list of all the DVNs in their docs, almost every single DVN is just a centralized team/company
And the ones that aren’t, are often just a wrapper around another protocol that’s actually attempting to solve the cross-chain problem in a decentralized manner like CCIP or Axelar that can be used without the LayerZero framework
Some may also argue that you’re supposed to compose multiple DVNs together in order to make it decentralized
But (1) that doesn’t justify calling infra run by a centralized company a decentralized network and (2) the default path that most projects take is to use the centralized LayerZero Labs DVN given its chain support over other DVNs
Even their flagship bridge @StargateFinance only uses a whopping 2 DVNs (one of which is the team themselves)
This fantasy of projects composing networks out of DVNs just isn’t what we see in reality in the majority of situations
Most devs simply do not any to deal with the massive security-sensitive problem of managing, configuring, securing, or running cross-chain infrastructure, they just want something that works
Centralization runs rampant in the LayerZero ecosystem but the terminology may make you think otherwise
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
This is really cool.
@Skymapperspace is building an Avalanche L1 to verify telescope space observations on-chain for intelligence communities worldwide to access.
A new standard for real-world data as we look to the stars, on Avalanche:
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
🔺 Avalanche Network
┃
┣ 📂 Institutions
┃ ┣ 📂 BlackRock (BUIDL fund)
┃ ┣ 📂 Franklin Templeton (Onchain funds)
┃ ┣ 📂 WisdomTree (Tokenized assets)
┃ ┗ 📂 Apollo Global Mgmt (Tokenization)
┃
┣ 📂 Market Access
┃ ┣ 📂 VanEck (ETF)
┃ ┣ 📂 Grayscale (ETF)
┃ ┗ 📂 KKR (Private markets exposure)
┃
┣ 📂 Banks & Financial Infra
┃ ┣ 📂 J.P. Morgan (Kinexys settlement)
┃ ┣ 📂 Citi (FX + asset issuance)
┃ ┣ 📂 ANZ (Tokenized assets + FX)
┃ ┣ 📂 Woori Bank (Stablecoin issuance)
┃ ┣ 📂 FIS (Financial infrastructure)
┃ ┗ 📂 TIS (Payments + token platform)
┃
┣ 📂 Payments & Stablecoins
┃ ┣ 📂 Visa (Stablecoin settlement)
┃ ┣ 📂 Rain (Card issuing + payments)
┃ ┣ 📂 StraitsX (Cross-border payments)
┃ ┗ 📂 State of Wyoming (Gov stablecoin)
┃
┣ 📂 Credit & RWAs
┃ ┣ 📂 Intain (Structured finance / ABS)
┃ ┣ 📂 Denari (Tokenized equities)
┃ ┣ 📂 Nonco (Institutional FX)
┃ ┣ 📂 Grove (Credit infrastructure)
┃ ┗ 📂 Axiym (Global settlement rails)
┃
┣ 📂 Tokenization Platforms
┃ ┣ 📂 Securitize
┃ ┣ 📂 Republic
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┃ ┗ 📂 Balcony (Real estate / records)
┃
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┣ 📂 Gaming & Consumer
┃ ┣ 📂 Off The Grid
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┃ ┣ 📂 The Grotto
┃ ┣ 📂 Fort Block Games
┃ ┗ 📂 Beam
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Akto Run🔺 retweeted
They tell us no one cares about the tech, so we made a thread about the tech.
You’ll find it’s pretty cool.
(1/7):
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
-be anonymous @zachxbt
-born mid-90s, somewhere in the US
-always loved puzzles, patterns, hidden truths
-2017
-loses $15K in an ICO rug pull
rage-quits Discord, opens Etherscan for the first time
-“if no one else will hunt these thieves, I will”
-2018
-nights spent tracing wallets with nothing but a spreadsheet
learns Solidity just to read scam contracts
-starts posting anonymous findings under @zachxbt
-2020
-exposes first big phishing ring stealing BAYC NFTs
-victims recover $2M in 48 hours
still zero followers, zero clout
-2021
-drops the mask, goes full platypus
-threads go viral overnight
community starts sending donations in ETH
-2022
-publishes 44-page exposé on Machi Big Brother
-accused of pocketing 22,000 ETH across dead projects
-Machi sues for defamation
crypto rallies, raises $1M+ defense fund in 72 hours
-lawsuit dropped, Zach never blinks
-2023
-solves $243M Bitcoin heist while waiting at airport gate
-French police arrest the thieves two weeks later
-victim gets every satoshi back
FBI starts DMing
-2024
-traces $28M Bittensor hack through anime NFT trades
-North Korean wallets exposed in real time
-bounty hits seven figures, donates half
-2025
-total recovered/stopped fraud crosses $250M
-every major exchange now fears a Zach thread
-media calls him “the ghost detective of crypto”
-he once said “I just wanted victims to stop feeling alone.”
-now
-zach
has 900K+ followers but still no face
-works 18-hour days, funded only by donations
-quietly changed crypto forever
scammers check his timeline before launching
-had good relations with @cz_binance, recently joined @BNBCHAIN
⚔️ Crypto’s lone avenger, DeFi legend @zachxbt 🛡️
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Mastering Ethereum 2nd edition is officially out.
How can you read it?
- Online for free: in the next few days/weeks we will publish it on github/x and probably other venues
- Kindle: you can buy it on amazon
- Paperback: you can buy it on amazon
- Online not for free (doesn't make sense g): O'Reilly platform
500+ pages, hopefully it will be a great read, let us know!!
I probably have the biggest announcement of my career to make.
Me, @alessandromazza, and @idrocortisone are going to write "Mastering Ethereum: Second Edition." It is an honor for us to have the opportunity to update the masterpiece of @aantonop and @gavofyork.
This is the biggest announcement of my career yet because Andreas' work changed my life. I would not be here today, working in this industry, if it wasn't for "Mastering Bitcoin."
I met Andreas in Glasgow in November 2023:
He posted on his private Patreon asking if anyone wanted to get a beer a few days later in Glasgow. I had just returned to Italy from Glasgow, but honestly, I could not miss the chance to thank him in person, so I booked tickets and packed my books for a few autographs.
The trip was just that: a few beers together, autographs on my "Mastering Something" books/The Internet of Money, and then a flight back home.
While we were talking, I asked him why he was not updating "Mastering Ethereum: First Edition." I will not report the answer he gave me, out of respect for his privacy, but he said that he couldn't. Seeing a possibility, I immediately asked him if he was open to collaborations on it.
Not only did he accept, but he also put me in contact with O'Reilly's editor in less than 24 hours (much less, actually).
Knowing it was a big task, I asked Alessandro and Niccolò to help me write this book. I truly hope that this will be something that helps newcomers, just as every single one of Andreas' books has done in the past.
So, what happens now? There will be a pre-release, with 2 chapters available soon (very soon). We will also release other chapters gradually and aim for a full publication in about a year from now.
I cannot thank Andreas enough for giving me this incredible opportunity and for everything he has done for the crypto space.
Stay tuned for updates on the pre-release and other information about "Mastering Ethereum: Second Edition."
P.S.: We already have some wonderful tech reviewers for the book, but we are still looking for more. DM me for more information.
Akto Run🔺 retweeted
Japan's 🇯🇵 $2 trillion payments processer TIS just launched it's multi-tokenization platform on Avalanche.
So who are TIS?
They are a major payment processor handling
- 85% of all branded debit cards
- 50% of credit card transactions
- also a major financial system Integrator
What are they bringing to Avalanche?
TIS has been working on Avalanche since 2024 June for
- Tokenization of Japanese government bonds
- Toyota's Mobility Orchestration Network tech paper
- SMBC Stablecoin business partnership
- [ redacted ]
- [ redacted ]
Why Avalanche?
I will give my thoughts on this.
- It is the most future proof infrastructure for businesses to build on.
- You will see many projects that promises but never delivers or sunset their services after 1-2 years.
- You can't build the next generation financial infrastructure on top of a fragile foundation.
- Avalanche has one of the best long term vision and technology.
- Although the Avalanche tech may seem simple at a glance it is carefully designed to not hinder future improvements of innovation. You can see this from how Avalanche upgrades it's tech. It's always building on top of it's core foundation for creating a ecosystem of chains.
It's not a surprise since TIS is indeed working with many chains but their top choice is Avalanche to build the next foundation for payment infrastructure.
