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Equities are overextended.
Crypto is over.
AI is a bubble.
Precious metals had their run.
Homes are unreasonably expensive.
USD is on the verge of hyperinflation.
Most jobs won't exist in 5 years.
Welcome to 2026, are you having fun yet?

Yeah AI is making DeFi exploits more common.
No you do not need to exit all DeFi. You just need to be more selective with where you entrust your money.
The contract on the left will never be exploited, no matter how powerful an AI you point at it.
The contract on the right is inherently vulnerable, only ever as safe as the owner's private key.
This is obviously an oversimplification and protocols will necessarily be more complex and harder to review at a glance, but the difference embodies one of the biggest issues we see these days, and the root cause behind most of the exploits of the past f

If you're mad Zuckerberg has a yacht but laid off some folks why don't you try starting a trillion dollar company so you can rehire them?

Bonds currently offer better yield (by a lot) than depositing USDT on Aave.
What happened to DeFi?

We just airdropped Boring Security badges on ApeChain to everybody that has completed the required classes.
4,448 NFTs dropped to 2,601 unique wallets.
$3.75 total gas cost.
ApeChain on TOP.

Say I have a bunch of my childhood Pokemon cards, couple hundred CGC graded holos + first editions scored 7-8 on average and ~300 commons that would probably grade out around the same but didn't seem worth paying for.
Is there are market for 7s and 8s and if so, how does one get rid of these without getting ripped off?

The centralized control that allowed Arbitrum to steal back funds from DPRK existed on Ethereum, not Arbitrum.
The inbox contract on ETH was upgraded to allow impersonation, and then sent a message to the L2 as if it were DPRK requesting to move funds.
If you want to be mad, be mad at upgradeable proxy contracts.

Arbitrum just stole back $70M from the KelpDAO exploiter.
This is the second time Lazarus has been rugged of their exploit funds by an L2 - Blast performed a similar maneuver after Munchables was exploited for $63M.
Bet North Korea isn't a huge fan of the L2 roadmap right now.

Look, fact is if we can raise the money ourselves the whole problem goes away: Kelp is made whole, rsETH holders suffer no losses, Aave has no bad debt, umbrella is not slashed, aWeth is unpaused, and crypto is saved.
I've got $60. Who's with me?

Of all involved parties I actually think LZ is being treated the most unfairly.
Yes they could have added additional safeguards but it's not like they had negligent security, they had very good security and were the target of a state sponsored and highly sophisticated attack.
All KelpDAO had to do on the other hand was read the LayerZero docs before using it to secure their multi billion dollar protocol.
All Aave had to do was look at KelpDAO's LayerZero config.
Not saying all three aren't to blame (they all deserve a share) but that's how I see it.

More than 80% of Umbrella depositors are trying to exit the Umbrella module now that there's a real chance of getting slashed.
Aave is freezing the module in case resolution takes longer than the withdrawal cooldown (20 days) to ensure these users are fully slashable if needed.

Incident statement from LayerZero is out. As expected, the attacker was likely DPRK.
The DVN itself was not compromised as previously speculated, but rather TWO separate RPCs the DVN used to ingest state.
On top of that, attackers DDOS'd the DVN's primary RPCs to force it to fail over to the two compromised ones.
And the compromised RPCs served real state to anybody querying them, only serving malicious state to the DVNs. This enabled the attackers to bypass some of the other safeguards that were in place.
Do NOT underestimate Lazarus. This attack was sophisticated as fuck, make no mistake.
LZ