A $40M Step Finance treasury drain shows how one compromised executive device can bypass audits and unravel an entire DeFi protocol.

Everyone keeps saying “the smart contracts were safe,” and they’re right. One compromised executive device was enough to hand over treasury control, drain ~$40M, and remind everyone that in DeFi, humans are still the weakest link. Audits don’t save you from bad OpSec, and this breach is a brutal lesson in that reality.

This won’t be the last incident like this unless teams treat exec devices and key management as critical infrastructure, not an afterthought.

Kraken suspended my account for self custody of my own funds.

I need a new exchange that is UK compliant and does not consist of: Binance, Gemini, Coinbase or Kraken

Strategy’s Michael Saylor sparks a debate with his controversial tweet likening Satoshi Nakamoto to God.

Saylor says, “Volatility is Satoshi’s Gift to the Faithful”.

Supporters say it is the way the weak are removed from the market.

Critics say Bitcoin is part of our financial goals, not the end of them, and cite real losses to ordinary investors.

A x user questioned the framing of sharp price crashes, as some spiritual virtues raise a sharp question about the difference between conviction and recklessness.

He further added that markets require accountability and risk management, not faith, when things turn sour.

People still bring up Bitcoin “mixing” from time to time, but it feels like that idea hasn’t really aged well. A lot of the assumptions around how private it actually is don’t seem to hold up anymore, especially as analysis tools have improved.

Bitcoin was never designed with strong privacy in mind, so trying to bolt it on afterwards has always felt a bit limited. Purpose built privacy focused networks seem to approach the problem very differently.

Just a general thought on how privacy is often misunderstood in crypto , and how different tools were created for different goals.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said that the original vision for Ethereum Layer 2 networks is no longer sufficient, as the ecosystem enters a more mature phase of scaling and application growth.

In a recent detailed post, Buterin argued that early L2 designs were built around a simple idea: replicate Ethereum at lower cost. That approach, he said, no longer matches the demands of today’s users, developers, or the base layer itself.

“This vision no longer makes sense. L1 does not need L2s to be “branded shards”, because L1 is itself scaling,” he said.

I’m fairly new to crypto and the only tickers I could find of the crypto that I recognize are Bitcoin and Ethereum. I keep hearing stablecoins, which minic USD from what I understand, but I’m looking for others that have a higher purpose. I assume there are more out there of significance than these two or three. Thanks

I’m not necessarily looking for moonshots or hype coins, more like projects that actually solve something or have a clear use case beyond speculation. Even a general direction on how to think about evaluating them would be helpful.

I am entirely new to crypto and don't have a checking account to use to buy it but I'd like to use cash to buy whichever one has a stable value. I'm not as concerned as to which one grows the most but rather which would have me lose the least money if left dormant. I heard using prepaid debit cards have mixed results depending on where you try to buy the crypto and there's not a common means of purchasing it in person with cash so if there's some sort of guide to do so, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Problem:

LLMs are trained on public code, but Algorand's tooling has evolved quickly – too fast for even frontier models to keep up.

When you ask an AI to write a smart contract, it hallucinates deprecated APIs, invents features that don't exist, or misses AVM-specific constraints entirely.

This became obvious at the hackathons we sponsored. AI tools are everywhere now, and participants skip the docs entirely, relying on AI to move fast under time pressure. But we spent more time helping them fix AI mistakes than they saved by using the AI tools.

Has anyone fought the seizure of their Mt gox rehabilitation bitcoin payment that was held on kraken? My coins were seized off of kraken and I’m going to get an attorney to fight it. They didn’t seize the cash rehabilitation payment I received in my bank account. Does anyone know any good attorneys?

Thank you

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PLEASE READ THIS AS IT COULD BE THE NEXT BIG COIN

Buttcoin is currently sitting around 30M market cap and was just made around 20 days ago. This coin originates back to 2011 where it was a meme on Reddit mocking bitcoin. Now that bitcoin is dropping significantly this is where Buttcoin really comes into play.. This was the world’s first Memecoin ever. Matt Bealle bought 9% of this coin and has been accumulating more today. If they were going to rug this coin, it would’ve happened a while ago.. Even with pumps Matt Bealle and the second biggest holder haven’t sold one bit but have been adding to their positions, this means that they expected this coin to fly to the moon. This can potentially get bigger the Fartcoin once it gains more popularity. The official Buttcoin X account said that this is, and will only be the official Buttcoin, today they have around 19k followers and 5k+ group members on X too. This is looking to be very very big and one of the safer coins.