Web3 researcher exploring Blockchain.
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Rushi Ramteke retweeted
Planning your trip to Devcon? This is where it all happens 👇
📍 Jio World Centre, Mumbai
Whether you’re attending or building around Devcon, start here.
We’ll share a full city guide soon, but here are a few areas to consider 🧵
I should do this every year to see if I change as a person or double down on my values that I was brought up with
If it's taking this much effort to hack into a protocol, security has definitely improved over the years right?
The most insane long game hack of all time!
North Korea built an entire trading firm
Conference passes
In-person meetings
Multiple countries
Half a year of Telegram messages and working sessions
Even $1M of their own capital deposited to look legitimate
Then when all the pieces were in place they stole $280M
Drift just released the full incident background and it’s wild!
Fall 2025: A "quant trading firm" approaches contributors of Drift at a major conference.
They Follow up in person across multiple countries. Technically fluent. Verifiable backgrounds. Typical trust building stuff.
December-March: They onboard a real Ecosystem Vault and attend working sessions
They even deposit $1M to further build ‘trust’
The long con had set in and by early 2026, these weren't strangers anymore
They had now built a 6-month working relationship
Then they share some repos which is routine stuff
The attack vector: a VSCode/Cursor vulnerability flagged by the security community throughout late 2025. Opening a file was enough. Silent code execution. No prompt. No warning. Nothing.
The moment the exploit fired, every Telegram message and trace of malware was scrubbed clean
No record or trace left
Every team managing meaningful TVL is a target and no one is safe from professional jobs such as this
Six months of infiltration and a trusted relationship, not just a sketchy email link
The bug is patched but the real attack vector was the relationship and patience
How do you protect against that? 🤯
This is exactly what I was saying xitter.gq/i/status/2040175459351…
The dirty secret of crypto: vanity metrics work.
Fake followers, fake engagement, marketing partnerships, paid KOLs. None of it builds a real business. But it gets you exchange listings and a high-FDV exit. That's all you need.
The playbook for building something real and the playbook for making money are two completely different games. Right now, the wrong one pays better.
Most projects in the pipeline were funded 1-2 years ago on exactly this model. The correction has a long lag.
There's a certain thing that is bugging me a lot.
From the little time I have been in the web 3 space, I have seen a few websites where you get paid to write things about chain/company
I don't get it, not only have the people never tried the product, it sends the wrong message.
I thought I heard Twist from Love Aaj Kal It turns out that it was sampled by Man Dole Mera Tan Dole in the movie Nagin, I think that was inspired by traditional snake charmer-phrases.
