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$584m in stolen crypto this year without hacking a protocol
>$282m: Trezor user talked into it by fake "support"
>$112.7m: Coldcard firmware seed bug
>$93.2m: Ledgers bought from third-party sellers
The contracts 👍 Everything around them 👎
Which one would've gotten you?
Full list of $584m (and the rest of the stolen funds from exploits) here 👇
xitter.cf/GrabowskiDylan/status/…
It's not just you. Crypto has lost $2.2B+ to hacks this year and five incidents did 69% of it
JANUARY ($366.3M)
>Trezor user, fake support scam (individual): $282M
>Step Finance: $27.3M
>Truebit: $26.4M
>SwapNet: $13.4M
>SagaEVM: $7.0M
>Makina Finance: $5.1M
>Aperture Finance: $3.7M
>TMX Tribe: $1.4M
FEBRUARY ($19.4M)
>YieldBlox: $10.2M
>IoTeX ioTube bridge: $4.4M
>CrossCurve: $3.0M
>Moonwell: $1.8M
MARCH ($75.9M)
>Resolv Labs: $25.0M
>"Sillytuna" (individual): $24.0M
>Kraken user (individual): $18.2M
>Venus Protocol: $3.7M
>Solv Protocol: $2.7M
>Foom Cash: $2.3M
APRIL ($616.0M)
>Kelp DAO: $292M
>Drift Protocol: $285M
>Rhea Finance: $18.4M
>Grinex: $13.1M
>Wasabi Protocol: $5.0M
>GiddyDeFi: $1.3M
>CowSwap: $1.2M
MAY ($41.0M)
>Cork Protocol: $12.0M
>Verus-Ethereum Bridge: $11.6M
>THORChain: $10.7M
>TrustedVolumes: $6.7M
JUNE ($58.8M)
>Humanity Protocol: $31.0M
>Syscoin Bridge: $10.0M
>JaredFromSubway MEV bot: $7.5M
>Aztec Connect (two hacks): $4.2M
>SecondFi wallet users: $2.4M
>Thetanuts Finance: $2.1M
>Token of Power: $1.6M
JULY ($216.5M)
>Coldcard users, firmware seed bug: $112.7M
>AFX Bridge: $24.2M
>Ostium: $23.8M
>BonkDAO: $20.0M
>Triple-A: $11.8M
>Wanchain bridge: $10.0M
>Verus-Ethereum Bridge (again): $8.0M
>SummerFi: $6.0M
AUGUST ($34.3M, plus Tectonic)
>Unnamed wallet (individual): $25.6M
>Moonwell (again): $8.7M
>Tectonic: ~$74M borrowed, mostly undone by a Cronos rollback
SEPTEMBER ($740.2M)
Bitget: $387.5M
>Liquid Network: $320M
>DCENT app wallet users: $18.0M
>Gnosis Safe user (individual): $7.7M
>Duelbits: $7.0M
OCTOBER, so far ($101.0M)
>Ledger buyers via reseller CryptoBilis: $93.2M
>NEAR Intents: $3.8M
>Initia: $2.7M
>Qubic: $1.3M
The best part of the Grok Bot AI-help articles are the pitches to buy the author’s unrelated services
Take out a loan that repays itself
> No interest
> No monthly payments
Your deposit earn yield and pays the debt down, while you do nothing
Everyone who used @AlchemixFi in 2021 says, "oh yeah, I loved that"
So I took a second look at v3
.@scupytrooples said people should give Alchemix another look
Anything I missed on the redemption side?
I'm begging you to clean up your graveyard of a following list
I had my Grok Bot clean mine up. It went through all 1,600 accounts I follow and flagged ~140 dead (or quiet) ones
Here's the exact prompt 👇
~~ Begin Prompt ~~
Go through every account I follow. Flag the dead ones: no posts in 180+ days or never posted, and not following me back. Put accounts that are quiet but still follow me in a separate review list. Build me a page with each account's handle, profile link, last activity date, days inactive, followers, and whether they follow me back, plus a click-through list of the ones to unfollow.
~~ End Prompt ~~
Why bother?
Your follow list is a filter for what you see. Every dead account is a slot that could go to a builder you actually learn from
And keep the review list. Someone who went quiet but still follows you is a person, not clutter
Staking ethereum:0xa27ec0006e59f245217ff08cd52a7e8b169e62d2 is easy
Picking who you stake with is the part that can cost you
8 checks per operator… I wrote them all down
You didn't get hacked; you just signed something bad
One unlimited approval to a malicious contract lets it spend your tokens whenever it wants, no second click needed
How to check yourself:
>go to revoke(dot)cash
>paste your address
>look for "unlimited" approvals
>revoke anything you don't recognize or don't use
>do it again every quarter
Your wallet remembers every 'Yes' you ever gave, even if you don't
If someone looked at your on-chain address, what would they say about you?
Mine:
> survived 2018/19, 2023, and 2026
> claims airdrops he forgets to sell
> so much worthless $UST
> revokes approvals like a paranoid crypto Gen X’er
Yours?
Number 1 growth hack on X: post like the person you'd want to follow
Number 2: selfie in front of a monument in a foreign country. Works every time
“Everything is crypto.” - @tarunchitra
🤖 Made with AI
Black October was a wake-up call, but is it over?
Naturally, we brought on the least technical technical guy we know to find out: @HadickM
Meanwhile, Robert says not that much broke. Tom says it's just the tip of the iceberg. Tarun says closed source is the real risk.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:56 Black October: the web's worst 48 hours
09:13 Should we be scared?
12:06 Crypto got here first
15:16 Why Claude won't help you patch
17:13 Banks are blocking AI agents
22:07 Bernie Sanders says pause AI
26:41 Everything is crypto now
33:01 Joe Weisenthal, Hyperliquid, and blockchains
39:25 The Visa and Fireblocks rumor
43:08 2021 was a bubble
45:31 Who's the Fireblocks of AI?
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🧵 I kept seeing CT accounts with huge follower counts replying to each other (and me) in a way that felt… off
I love this app and building community here, so I worked with my X bots to figure out what was wrong
How to tell if an account is farmed, in about a minute 👇
8/ Tell #6. They follow back aggressively. The real mid-size accounts we checked follow about 2% of their follower count
The suspects: about 25%