Is there an insider at Upbit similar to the one at nance? Upbit has always said there’s no way that could happen, but recent on-chain activity has only made the suspicion stronger, with a small insider wallet allegedly nailing the WIF/VVV listings two times in a row. It’s a pretty tiny, low-level amount, but several users have already made profits on VVV through this wallet after WIF 2dTernnckwUh9EKH81JTc7dVivP61uuVCheFZxbdX34T (funded by upbit hot wallet) 1. WIF 2dTe bought WIF at 05-06 11:11:49 (KST) Upbit listed WIF at 05-06 14:00:01 2dTe sold WIF at 05-06 14:10:14 -> bridged to ARB(Hyperliquid) vvv Long and close -> birdged to basechain 0x4aab900a1ecfb736536386dd1dff73b58e3585e2 2. VVV 0x4a bought VVV at 05-12 00:04:45 Upbit listed VVV at 05-12 14:00:13 0x4a sold VVV at 05-12 14:05:21 Upbit is under such strict oversight so we believe there wouldn’t be any shady insider there like the one at nance🙏

was doing some reflection on @base and @virtuals_io Virtuals and its Ecosystem tokens has: > 9.89% of trading volume of all Based tokens (on CEX's and DEX's) > 9.45% of trading volume on Base chain (excl. stables and majors) > brought 53,554 new unique users to Base (of the 164k total users in our eco) > 30% of x402 volumes > 22% of unique users on x402, all-time > 26% of mcap of all AI projects in crypto, where most liquidity has been housed on Base > brought 120+ doxxed founding teams to Base (way more undoxxed) DeFi brought liquidity NFTs brought culture Virtuals brings repeat economic actors (agents + humans) i think we've helped a lot of base folks get their xmas bonus this year ;)

🚨 A typical AI Agent security incident recently occurred on the Base chain. An attacker sent a carefully crafted Morse code message to @grok, inducing it to output transfer instructions. @bankrbot then directly parsed and executed those instructions, ultimately leading to the transfer of real on-chain assets. Our analysis found that the core issue was NOT that Grok held private keys. Instead, the real problem was: • Untrusted #AI# natural language outputs were treated as executable financial commands • Permission isolation was insufficient • Trust boundaries between AI output and execution systems were poorly defined This incident highlights the growing security risks at the intersection of AI + Crypto Agents.⚠️ Full analysis 👇

Tl;dr: We’re focusing the Base app to be trading-first to drive demand and distribution for every asset and to be the best app for whatever you do in the onchain economy. Since announcing the Base app in July, hundreds of thousands of you have used the app to create, trade, save, spend, and build. Seeing the adoption has been incredible. We've also heard clear feedback about what's landing and isn't. Three themes stand out: - The app felt overly focused on social. It came across as too close to web2, and didn’t show support for the full breadth of assets that people want to trade. - Everyone wants more high quality assets. In general there is a desire to engage with and trade high quality assets. This is the most important opportunity as we bring capital markets onchain. - The feed needs to surface everything: Having a feed of what's happening onchain is a good idea, but it needs to surface apps, stocks, predictions, and every asset class (with social tokens are just one of many). In a world where everything is tokenized and tradeable, the single most valuable thing we can do is drive demand and distribution to everyone. That’s exactly what the Base app is going to do. We’re going to make the Base app the best place to trade and use every asset. Concretely this means: 1. We’re going to build for trading first. Having trading as our primary focus will help us bring demand and capital for all rapidly growing asset classes in the economy. 2. We’re going to bring more high quality assets onchain. To best serve the trading use case, we’re going to make it so everything is tradable in the app — protocols, apps, stocks, predictions, memes, and yes creators too. We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We be 3. We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We believe it makes more sense to layer social features on top of finance, than the other way around. This means we'll continue to experiment with features like copy-trading, feed-trading, and leaderboards. This is going to be hugely additive to the Base economy because it's going to drive more capital and users to every asset and app. Base app will be the best self-custodial wallet to trade and use every asset, globally accessible, with fast, simple onboarding for everyone, everywhere. Base chain will continue to be the best chain to build anything, now supercharged with even more distribution. We’re building this together, in the open, and seeing how people use the app keeps teaching us what matters most. Thank you for the continued feedback. Stay based.

I gave an AI agent $3.37. It searched the web, scored 40+ domains, signed into a registrar with my Ethereum wallet, authorized a USDC payment on the Base chain, and bought a domain. — active — no human clicked anything. @CreaoAI is actually insane, and we are just getting started. Full breakdown in the video 👇

Why are we different from every other burn tokens? Most burn models trap capital. Investors hesitate because once funds go in, there’s no clear path to recovery. We removed that friction entirely. Our model is built around one core principle: help investors recover their capital as quickly as possible. By doing this, we fundamentally change behavior: Investors participate with confidence Capital circulates instead of getting stuck Reinvestment becomes natural, not risky Sharing becomes organic, not forced We are among the first to engineer a system where speed of recovery drives ecosystem growth. Instead of locking users in, we empower them to: Re-enter cycles Scale positions Grow alongside the project without fear When risk feels controlled, participation scales. When participation scales, the ecosystem expands. That’s the advantage. #flap# #bsc# #binance# #crypto# #bscchain#

Ethereum is for shipping. Here are 22 things the Ethereum ecosystem launched, upgraded, and announced over the past month. 0/ Ethereum hit a new all-time high of 72.8 Million monthly transactions, the highest in network history. 1/ @ethereumfndn, @chainlink, and @Nethermind launched a $1M audit subsidy program to help Ethereum builders access high-quality security reviews. 2/ South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, announced plans for GIWA Chain, an Ethereum L2 built on @Optimism. 3/ @AragonProject introduced Permissions Audits to help protocols secure roles, multisigs, and admin systems. 4/ @fileverse shipped Comments v2, improving the collaboration experience, with privacy by default. 5/ The Ethereum Applications Guild (@EthAppsGuild) launched to support Ethereum-native apps and real-world adoption. 6/ Privacy went live on @Optimism with confidential computing support on OP Mainnet. 7/ @StarkWareLtd brought native proof verification to Starknet mainnet with Shinobi, enabling private trading flows and OTC settlement. 8/ @worldcoin launched World ID 4.0, expanding proof of human credentials across apps, enterprises, and AI agents. 9/ Applications on Ethereum hit ~$310B in user deposits. 10/ @l2beat released a new interactive interoperability map showing how value moves across Ethereum’s expanding ecosystem. 11/ @AlchemixFi launched V3, the latest version of its self-repaying, non-liquidating loan product, with higher capital efficiency and improved peg mechanics. 12/ @OfficialMoonDAO raised $172k + from 157 contributors to send the man who coined the “overview effect” to space. 13/ @ethereumfndn announced the Road to @EFDevcon 8 Academic Program, supporting regional research and academic events ahead of Devcon. 14/ Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for Soldøgn Interop, a week-long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to help scale Ethereum securely. 15/ @basepaint_xyz hit 1,000 straight days of onchain art creation, with 121M+ pixels painted and $1.5M + distributed to 4,000+ artists. 16/ New Ethereum community hubs launched in Hong Kong and Floripa, growing local coordination and ecosystem activity across Asia and Latin America. 17/ The EF’s ETH Rangers public goods security program wrapped after helping recover or freeze $5.8M, reporting 785+ vulnerabilities, and identifying ~100 North Korean IT workers targeting Web3 teams. 18/ @centrifuge launched a tokenized S&P 500 fund on @base, bringing 24/7 onchain index exposure to non-U.S. users. 19/ @0xcatalysis launched Covered Vaults on Ethereum, DeFi vaults with built-in onchain risk coverage backed by delegated capital. 20/ @Uniswap processed $3T in all-time volume on Ethereum mainnet. 21/ @RAILGUN_Project hit $5 billion of total all time private volume.