Hackers stole 1.2M cosmos:native from Neutron, then @cosmoshub validators coordinated quickly to freeze those stolen funds Now the hackers put a governance proposal trying to bribe validators to vote yes to unfreeze those stolen funds. But the hackers will also get the proposal deposit burnt with a NWV. Well done everyone proving great coordination and security against any hacking in @cosmos ⚔️🛡️👏

Update on this Telegram attack: 🚨Several have reported being hacked even with 2FA so @telegram time to improve the security options!😡 🚨Hackers ask your contacts to have a call, then pretend sound is not working and ask you to download some SDK to fix it which is the malware

🚨Warning about Telegram🚨 ➡️It seems there is some scam going on where hackers are able to hack Telegram accounts even with 2FA enabled so beware ➡️In the scam, they ask your contacts to have soon a call via Teams or Google meets to then introduce some malware so be careful

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Aave V3 crossed $180 million deposits on @monad.

📣Thrilled to announce that we have now joined @NEARProtocol as mainnet validator!🥳🎉 We have a lot on the pipeline for $NEAR so stay tuned! This is our NEAR mainnet node: nearblocks.io/address/cosmic…

Category researchers and collaborators received a Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P conference (@IEEESSP) for their paper related to private mempools. The techniques introduced were ultimately leveraged in BTX, our latest state-of-the-art Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) scheme. Congratulations to our researchers: Amit Agarwal, Babak Poorebrahim Gilkalaye, @KushalBabel, @sourav1547, @PeterRindal

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A recent viral clip showed Don Wilson of DRW criticizing public blockchains for their lack of MEV-resistance. Wilson argued that, as a result of this, public blockchains are not suitable for financial markets. This critique isn't going to go unanswered. Last night, Category Labs published a frontier research result for encrypted mempools. This is a significant result that leads the way to practical MEV resistance, and is how our industry will prevail against the private blockchain crowd. Background When you submit a transaction on a blockchain, it sits in a pending state where it may be frontrun by a bot. The cleanest fix would be for users to encrypt transactions until they're included in a block, but doing that efficiently is very hard: you need a committee of servers that can jointly decrypt only the transactions that make it into each block, fast enough to keep up with block times. Up to now, this idea hasn't been practical, as the best threshold encryption schemes are too slow, introduce censorship attacks, or introduce impractical operational steps for users or validators. Category Labs has a solution: BTX, a new scheme for Batch threshold encryption (BTE) that is actually practical and performant. This leads the way to encrypted mempools on Monad. The result Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) lets a committee of servers jointly decrypt a specified set of encrypted results from a pool while keeping the rest private. Prior BTE schemes each had a drawback: - some required per-block MPC setup - some bound each ciphertext to a specific block or epoch (limiting rollover and enabling censorship) - some required users to pick an index from a small namespace (resulting in occasional collisions) - and the ones that avoided all these issues were either computationally prohibitive or required a common reference string (CRS) that grows with the number of sessions. BTX, the new mechanism proposed in the paper, is simultaneously: - epochless - collision-free - computationally efficient, and - compact In the paper, the authors implement BTX and benchmark it against the strongest two prior schemes (PFE from Boneh et al. and BEAT++ from Agarwal et al.). (BEAT++ is a prior result by most of the authors of the present paper.) BEAT++ is fast but has a censorship-enabling design flaw; PFE is clean but slow and has bigger ciphertexts; and Fernando et al. (a third leading scheme) is clean but doesn't scale to long-lived deployments. BTX is the first construction that's simultaneously collision-free, epochless, compact, and fast. BTX is a significant result solving a huge problem. Check out the paper in the next post.

The Interchain Foundation delegations have begun! Validators should expect 50% of their delegations to be deployed by end of day today, with the remaining 50% to follow next week. Learn more about the Q1 delegation set and the selection criteria below 👇

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200 validators now on Monad Mainnet

Mainnet now moves to having a full 200 active validators! The following operators have been allocated their VDP delegation and are up for active set selection! Welcome to Mainnet! JustANode BitCtrl Nodeify Decentra blocash BlockPro LI FI Metatarz Paradise Nodes SpeedyNodes POSTHUMAN MSC industries Phase Stake Unity Nodes Inotel Validexis Cosmic Validator Obelisk Unity farms LootGO TServices Cointelegraph Decentralization Guardians Point Group Kiln CHAIN DIGITAL Etherfuse Astrosynx GlobalStake AiNodes Data Nexus Lunar Strategy InfraSingularity LuckyResearch Labs

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