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12 years is a long time in crypto.
A lot has changed along the way, but one thing has stayed constant: the people who’ve been part of the journey with us.
A message from Rahul Pagidipati (@eth_us), CEO, and Raj Karkara (@RajKarkara), COO, as ZebPay completes 12 years. 💙
#12YearsofZebPay
Going back to where it all started. The screens looked very different, the team was smaller, and crypto was still new to most people.
Proof 01/12
#12YearsOfZebPay
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great vibes w/ our friends @EmilyKCenter last week
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Leo, the AI assistant in Brave, now offers end-to-end encrypted chat with GLM 5.3 Flash!
Your browser encrypts each prompt before it leaves your device, so only an attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) can decrypt it.
It's industry-leading privacy you can verify.
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$BAT
I heard BAT token might finally get some use case (buybacks, card). Brave is in the worlds top 50 most visited websites (above discord or github) + 120M users. It's fully vested so it has no unlocks. That's enough for a good narrative and it might print hard if team doesn't fuck anything up with execution.
I have yet to buy this so I'm shilling before filling. Don't really want to chase it up here. Will be looking into longing this next week if there is a pullback + setup.
Don't pump it without me.
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After 10 years $BAT is in the process of giving its token a purpose. 120+ million people use their browser, but the token was largely neglected.
Roadmap 4.0 aims to push BAT from ads into everyday payments, wallets, AI, and commerce.
In July they released their roadmap and vision:
- Brave Rewards Card: virtual and physical, powered by BravePay and GENIUS-compliant stablecoins. Users earn BAT on eligible everyday purchases, plus exclusive offers. Works in Brave Wallet and other major digital wallets.
The waitlist opened in August and as of October 6th they had 186K+ signups on the waitlist. This far outpaces the level of interest in ETHFI and it's on par with Plasma which received 100k in the first months.
- A percentage of net revenue from wallet features (swaps, bridging, on/off-ramps, .brave domains), the Rewards Card, and BravePay is earmarked for $BAT buybacks that feed user rewards, creator payouts, and the User Growth Pool.
- Unified Brave Wallet: saved cards, self-custody multi-chain crypto, Brave Rewards, and BravePay in one browser-native interface
BAT is also fully diluted, no more unlocks coming.
The Waitlist for the card opened in August, it's already been opened for 2 months.
It ticks every box for me and it seems extremely quiet on the TL. I think this is a swing hold.
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Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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JUST IN: Public company Robinhood added $25 million of Bitcoin to its balance sheet 👀
Their first Bitcoin purchase ever 💥
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Amazon Prime deals are on @brave new tab takeover again today!
The nice thing is you can use @SP3NDdotshop to buy these deals with $BAT
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Got a new air fryer paid with $BAT on @SP3NDdotshop!
You can literally buy anything with $BAT on Amazon using Sp3nd.
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Replying to @brave
@Brave reached 128.28M MAU in September, up 1.6% from August (early summer slump rebound).
28-day avg. DAU 52.97M, up 3.8%, best DAU growth in 2026.
Peak DAU 54.60M, record 7.04B minutes of daily use.
Search > 2.63B QPM, 31B annualized (+4.9% MoM). Record 88.48M QPD 9/28.
1/4
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SECRETARY RUBIO on AMERICA.GOV PASSPORTS: No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you're paying to do something that should be available to you.
































