Surfing chains since the blocksize war 🎙️@SmartEconomyPod | 📝@NeoNewsToday
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Rebuilt my entire website from scratch over the past few days
Worked with my agents to mock up the wireframes, code the template, and launch the redesign
Rules: they could only use what was in a ‘MyBackground’ file I wrote, and I had final sign-off on everything
What do you think?
Centrally controlled money creates zero-sum games
Dune shows what happens when resources are finite and controlled
Can we build money nobody controls?
Follow @SmartEconomyPod to hear builders answer the hard questions
We're officially in the "then they fight you" phase
The "Common Sense Leadership Fund" bought a full-page WSJ ad with skulls on it to warn CEOs about tokenized stocks
Same energy as the 90s warnings to never type your credit card into the internet
Nobody buys skull ads for things that aren't working
$584m in stolen crypto this year without hacking a protocol
>$282m: Trezor user talked into it by fake "support"
>$112.7m: Coldcard firmware seed bug
>$93.2m: Ledgers bought from third-party sellers
The contracts 👍 Everything around them 👎
Which one would've gotten you?
Full list of $584m (and the rest of the stolen funds from exploits) here 👇
xitter.cf/GrabowskiDylan/status/…
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
The best part of the Grok Bot AI-help articles are the pitches to buy the author’s unrelated services
Take out a loan that repays itself
> No interest
> No monthly payments
Your deposit earn yield and pays the debt down, while you do nothing
Everyone who used @AlchemixFi in 2021 says, "oh yeah, I loved that"
So I took a second look at v3
.@scupytrooples said people should give Alchemix another look
Anything I missed on the redemption side?
I'm begging you to clean up your graveyard of a following list
I had my Grok Bot clean mine up. It went through all 1,600 accounts I follow and flagged ~140 dead (or quiet) ones
Here's the exact prompt 👇
~~ Begin Prompt ~~
Go through every account I follow. Flag the dead ones: no posts in 180+ days or never posted, and not following me back. Put accounts that are quiet but still follow me in a separate review list. Build me a page with each account's handle, profile link, last activity date, days inactive, followers, and whether they follow me back, plus a click-through list of the ones to unfollow.
~~ End Prompt ~~
Why bother?
Your follow list is a filter for what you see. Every dead account is a slot that could go to a builder you actually learn from
And keep the review list. Someone who went quiet but still follows you is a person, not clutter
It took @waitwhatwinnie minutes to find 59 stagnated account. Your turn, anon
Staking ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 is easy
Picking who you stake with is the part that can cost you
8 checks per operator… I wrote them all down
You didn't get hacked; you just signed something bad
One unlimited approval to a malicious contract lets it spend your tokens whenever it wants, no second click needed
How to check yourself:
>go to revoke(dot)cash
>paste your address
>look for "unlimited" approvals
>revoke anything you don't recognize or don't use
>do it again every quarter
Your wallet remembers every 'Yes' you ever gave, even if you don't
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
“Everything is crypto.” - @tarunchitra
🤖 Made with AI
Black October was a wake-up call, but is it over?
Naturally, we brought on the least technical technical guy we know to find out: @HadickM
Meanwhile, Robert says not that much broke. Tom says it's just the tip of the iceberg. Tarun says closed source is the real risk.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:56 Black October: the web's worst 48 hours
09:13 Should we be scared?
12:06 Crypto got here first
15:16 Why Claude won't help you patch
17:13 Banks are blocking AI agents
22:07 Bernie Sanders says pause AI
26:41 Everything is crypto now
33:01 Joe Weisenthal, Hyperliquid, and blockchains
39:25 The Visa and Fireblocks rumor
43:08 2021 was a bubble
45:31 Who's the Fireblocks of AI?
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🧵 I kept seeing CT accounts with huge follower counts replying to each other (and me) in a way that felt… off
I love this app and building community here, so I worked with my X bots to figure out what was wrong
How to tell if an account is farmed, in about a minute 👇
8/ Tell #6. They follow back aggressively. The real mid-size accounts we checked follow about 2% of their follower count
The suspects: about 25%