Taika Waititi hosted this year's amfAR gala on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival to raise money for HIV/AIDS research and honor Pamela Anderson and artist Marina Abramovic

Taika Waititi has called critics “sad lost souls” after ‘KLARA AND THE SUN’ became his lowest rated film ever on Rotten Tomatoes. “I haven't read a review of anything aimed at me or my peers in almost 15 years. But I do listen to the people. So this Halloween, let's spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn't achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus became critics. The same people who also hated Jojo Rabbit! Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin.”

SIGNAL OF THE DAY: $TAIKO Taiko got exploited, crashed, and the team reopened the bridge and told everyone funds were safe. The price kept falling anyway. · Signal: 98 Down 34%, but is this a dip to buy or a trap to avoid?" $TAIKO · $0.1289 · Long Liquidation Cascade

THE BLOCK: Ethereum Layer 2 Taiko has reopened its bridge, marking the last step of recovery after last month's exploit. "Our response is complete: the network is fully restored and every user is whole," Taiko says. A full post-mortem on the exploit will be released soon.

🚨 MistTrack Illicit Fund Analysis — Taiko Exploit 🕵️ On June 22, 2026, the Taiko protocol was exploited. Stolen funds were distributed across multiple attacker-controlled addresses. The main attacker EOA 0x7506DeA0c38ca0B55364B22424374c5A1ae1B76a received various ERC-20 tokens (USDC, USDT, crvUSD, CRV, WBTC, wEETH, TAIKO, iZi) and quickly swapped most non-native assets for ETH via DEXs, accumulating ~615 ETH. Separately, 277.97 ETH was bridged out directly. Total stolen: ≈ $1.74M (at incident-time prices). ✅ 777.977 ETH (~$1.35M) moved to: 0xa98035081fb739ebe9c8f80904668fb11438a846 ✅ 1.99M TAIKO (~$194K) deposited to MEXC via: 0x5FBc60A12Bc6635E7d587d8DaC52e4b1388b4990 ⚠️ Attacker EOA still holds: 117 ETH + 2.14M iZi + 0.531 wEETH Key address to monitor: 0xa98035081fb739ebe9c8f80904668fb11438a846 We have blacklisted the related addresses and are actively monitoring them.

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