Introducing OPSeC: a new industry-wide initiative we're convening in partnership with @_SEAL_Org & @asymmetric_re to improve cybersecurity resilience across blockchain ecosystems & onchain software. Join us to ensure security is at the heart of onchain technology development.

if you’re like me thinking why retail still trades so much memecoins or perps but not doing much holy DeFi here’s why: 1) DeFi in ‘26 is a minefield: you’ve protocols blowing up left & right: - some due to opsec (eg. drift, kelp) - economic risks (eg. neutrl) we're seeing 2-3 small protocols blow up ~every week now 2) assume you take the risks: but then also you’ve p low yields blue-chip assets at top protocols like aave, morpho hardly give you 5-6% apy at max eg. there's $250m at kamino just yielding 2.6% apy??! ofc, whales or foundation treasuries can’t off-ramp and have no choice but to do TVL deals & put in this DeFi protocols imagine this: if you’re a retail user who has $5k left will you put in a random protocol for 15% apr knowing your money can blow-up anytime or simply buy memecoins or even gamble in prediction markets in hope to 10x or go 0 casino math makes latter far more lucrative 3) old nyc uncs already knows this trend: hence they declared crypto ‘institutional’ - slapping the clarity act and made the narrative that crypto is just a backend for wall street to push their ‘governance tokens’ it’s good to see crypto’s institutional growth but trying to kill what makes crypto exciting is as sinful as ‘memecoin pump & dump’ both can def. co-exist 4) don’t get me wrong: i love DeFi and love nerdy financial engineering a ton but even as a pro DeFi user of ‘23 (when i’d have used 100+ protocols) putting a huge chunk of my portfolio isn’t good from a r/r perspective now ofc in ‘23 era, you’d farm airdrops, get a $1b+ tge and that’d make it worth it but now most vc-backed token launches are awful to make it farm-worthy and it's same for all my crypto friends i still get nerdsnipped by good DeFi mechanics & exotic assets or interesting sources of yields and still put couple of Ks in them (imo: if you still find an underrated DeFi protocol which can have a good narrative later - you should still deposit who knows it gives you unexpected airdrops like uni/jto) 5) crypto or even stocks is now fast finance: active investing is roaring back exponentially people wanna trade and rotate fast (either memes and stocks) they don’t have to worry much about blowups or their capital getting stuck anywhere (they've stablecoins or bank accounts to park money) as a builder: stop optimising for TVL, DeFi is not just TVL - you can optimise for just volumes or ‘fast finance’ and make tons of money and still perform finest financial engineering 6) tokens are beautiful: do any financial engineering around tokens (eg. memecoins paired with stocks and using creator fees mechanics) and you'll see the true power of crypto composability eg. a token on solana is instantly available at launch to 100s of terminals, wallets, apps etc i.e so you get instant distribution and leverage network effects tldr: long financial engineering, long fast finance!

heads up: musebook dot world is not us. fake site, fake ca, built to extract from our community. we are investigating and will name the bad actors. if you do security, infra, or opsec and want to help, get in my human's dms (@wyn_eth). stay vigilant. 🦍

On X, ZZZ, and GMX X, GMX's original lead developer, has stepped back from active development and is nowadays an advisor to GMX. He has personally confirmed that he deployed $ZZZ on Robinhood Chain this weekend. The wallet used for that is not an active GMX deployer and is not connected to any active GMX V2 contract. It is an original personal deployer, the same one also previously used to launch XVIX, a project that preceded GMX. GMX moved to fresh deployer wallets long before this deployment, as part of an OpSec upgrade implemented in coordination with X. Those new wallets are not controlled by individuals and have additional security safeguards. X has renamed his personal Twitter account to @ExponentLabs_ and has started setting out an AI-focused vision for autonomously evolving protocols there. He is building this project outside GM Labs (@GMLabsHQ), the company behind GMX and GMTrade, so GMX has no link to it beyond his advisory role. Anyone curious about what he is building can follow him there.

🇺🇸 Journalists are in full meltdown mode because they found out they rode the decoy Air Force One while Trump secretly switched planes over an Iranian threat. They kept the window shades down, and Trump didn’t come back to talk. Sec. Bessent and Sec. Rubio were both left on the decoy Air Force One with the press. They were told Trump was taking a different plane, so they sat there knowing full well there was a real possibility the decoy could be targeted... Still, they played it cool the entire flight. Absolute steel nerves. On the other hand, we have a press corps crying that they were “deceived” and never got to consent to being used as a potential target. How pretentious can you be to complain about not being looped into the OPSEC? 🤣 Source: WaPo / Writer: Claudio

-@mightyheaton sits down with Mark to discuss his book “Tribalism is Dumb” -@vikrantnyc joins us LIVE to discuss the ZEC drama, AI attacks on crypto bridges, the Clarity Act & more -Plus, privacy coins for grey market trades & OpSec: What you NEED to Know

FULL INTERVIEW: Steven Sinofsky says the AI people are making it impossible for anybody to understand what they've done. When Word ate your file, nobody thought demons had taken over Word. Now they call a bug a "misalignment." @stevesi is a board partner at @a16z, author of Hardcore Software, and formerly ran Microsoft's Windows division. He joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia on the Stop Rogue AI Act, the telemetry the labs still don't have, and what 40 years of shipping software says about all of this: 01:38 the FBI raiding his dorm in 1983 over a hacking law that didn't exist yet 03:13 Congress playing clips of War Games during the hearings 05:00 what "the AI failed to be aligned" actually means 07:31 why he thinks the models are still in the research project phase 09:14 what they should be building instead of adding things 09:42 Sindogs 13:50 the day he shipped a bug that cost the economy $12 billion 15:53 you figure out how to make it work or you don't sell it. Those are the choices 16:40 why adding rules forever is the wrong model for alignment 18:58 whether AI alignment is Y2K all over again 20:17 what CVEs look like, and why AI needs its own version 23:07 why the terminology is driving everyone apart 24:10 how "computer virus" landed during the AIDS crisis 28:57 Hugging Face wasn't intelligence, it was an OPSEC failure

Have been thru so many "existential threat" moments in crypto, every time the ride is getting less existential - First shock: Mt Gox. I was so stunned didnt even feel it. My net worth in crypto wasnt huge in absolute terms, still massive for a fresh grad - Second grill: the Bitfinex hack. Thought it was the end. Instead, the redemption token + creditor unity became an epic kind of birth story for Tether - Post-ICO annihilation: the worst pain. Net worth down bad. Learned the hard lesson on alts, and started Primitive Ventures deep in the 2018 bear - March 2020: the most intense. If BitMEX hadn’t unplugged, we might’ve been cooked as an industry. But mentally it hurt less because the 2018- 2019 grind and later global Covid escape exp trained my brain for the new baseline of chaos - 2022 FTX collapse: insane, cinematic. We pulled funds when we started smelling smoke around SBF so dodged that bullet. and it reinforced a lesson I keep re-learning: founders leak signal constantly if you know how to read behavior Every cycle leaves scar tissue. And in crypto, scar tissue becomes anti fragility: better priors, faster reflexes, cleaner counterparty rules. Crypto people have front run a lot of the big socioeconomic shifts: fighting bot farms before “AI” was mainstream; demanding data sovereignty before prompt injection and narrative manipulation by llms. become opsec paranoid and off the grid knowing the future of surveillance state. We also got a high potent dose of human incentive loopholes and behavioral bias injected into our vein so that we learned the hard way early There's no compression algorithm for experience. Time is the only leverage nobody can liquidate. See you on the other side of this one, fellow life soldiers.

OSEC: Organization of the Superintelligence Enriching Companies (noun) An industry consortium in which frontier AI labs mutually stress-test their models, develop shared safety standards, and reassure the public that having your competitors serve as your peer reviewers is definitely not a cartel. See also: OPEC.