I no longer believe exchanges when they get hacked I’m convinced it’s inside job and money laundering another theory i have on why its inside job is that if you noticed alot of banks are now talking about crypto custody they want to hold your crypto these exchanges can easily get taken down and have no real power the way these bankers do these banks control governments so it kind of makes sense to make exchanges feel less safe which they arent really...and convince people to go to them exchanges probably have no choice but to go along with it or get shut down notice first cold wallet hacks, then exchanges.... i reckon to keep exchanges happy the banks may partner with them cause of client base...or they will hold the crypto and some sort of swap line set up storage with banks and trade normally with exchange

I'm not a genius trader, but by process of elimination, zcash:native is a token that every allocator has to load up on. I'm not an XMR hater, but Zodl is putting the team on its back. Zero reason to sell this asset - ever

NEAR > ETH, for the same reason ZEC > BTC. ZEC keeps taking share from Bitcoin because money should be private, and a transparent chain leaks everything once real value moves on it. Ethereum has the same flaw, one layer up: every trade, position and balance is public. NEAR runs the same finance privately, on a confidential shard. And I have not even mentioned private AI, where NEAR is already ahead. Same thesis, applied to intelligence instead of money. Private is beating transparent for money. It will do the same for finance, and for AI.

Which feature should Monad add?

Bro, they’re using XMR as a mixer. If you actually did the research and understood how Zcash works, privacy increases with time in the shielded pool. You don’t fucking move hundreds of millions into the shielded pool and then can instantly remove it like magic.

friendly reminder that 99.5% of crypto hacks are inside jobs

XMR devs knew about this issue as early as 2021, didn't warn community, left the bug unaddressed for four years, and the problem still hasn't been solved today. And these hypocritical envious mfs are blaming Zcash teams for being honest and patching the issue within a couple of days. Holy Shit 🙃glass jaw :)))

The fact that Croatia has become the most tourist-saturated country in the world makes me really sad. When tourism becomes your entire economy: - real estate prices shoot up until locals can't afford to live there - seasonal jobs replace real careers - the dream shrinks to owning one apartment and renting it out - white collar jobs disappear because there's no one to hire for them - you start importing cheap labor because locals won't do service jobs for what the market pays And if you check any country where tourism is a major percentage of GDP, they're almost all poor countries. Croatia is at roughly 50%. Half of our economy is people showing up, drinking, and leaving. Tragic.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks w/ Ozan Solmaz @boez95 @ChristofTorres Bots watch every pending trade in Ethereum's public mempool and sandwich the ones worth attacking. Hence the nickname: the dark forest. In response, Ethereum and other chains built protections, from private RPCs to mechanisms native to the chain, that shield trades from these bots. We call this protected order flow. How well are these users actually protected? We measured it in a three-year study of sandwich attacks by persistent bots against protected order flow on Ethereum, Solana, Tron, Base, Arbitrum, and Monad. The protections on these chains range from private RPCs on Ethereum and private submission to a centralized sequencer on Base and Arbitrum, to first-come-first-served ordering in Tron's public mempool and local mempools on Solana and Monad. Local mempools were never meant as a full front-running prevention, but they do limit who sees a trade before it lands. On four of the six chains, we observe protected order flow sandwich attacks: 28.0M attacks on Solana, 38,567 on Tron, 30,607 on Ethereum plus 2,576 more through reorged blocks, and 1,889 on Base. We trace each chain's exposure and find that it sits in various places along a transaction’s path. 🟠 Ethereum: OFAs can expose enough information to make private trades sandwichable, especially when the same transaction reaches multiple OFAs or when searchers receive full transaction details. Reorged blocks also expose private transactions. We find transactions that were private and untouched in a block that got reorged, and then sandwiched on the canonical chain. 🟠 Solana: transactions are sent to the upcoming leaders, and early on we find that a few leaders carry far more attacks in their blocks than their share of blocks, i.e., they are likely the exposure source for these transactions. From 2025 that fades, but we see that victims concentrate around a few apps. 🟠 Tron: we presume that bots win latency races in the public mempool, so the first-come-first-served ordering in block building does not fully prevent sandwiches. 🟠 Base: we see two different kind of exposure. One lines up with a documented RPC bug that exposed pending transactions. The other has attackers preying on victims who trade on a predictable schedule, if the vicim does the same trade every couple of blocks, the attacker can front-run them without observing the pending trade. Protected order flow sandwiches look very different from public mempool sandwiches. The attacker's transactions often land in a different block than the victim's, and unlike in the public mempool, their success is not guaranteed. These attackers simply don't act with the same certainty. The dark forest may have shrunk, but we show there's an even darker corner of it, where users who think they're protected still get front-run. Protection has to hold at every layer, from the app to the RPC to the block producer. Encrypted mempools and TEE-based designs can help, by keeping transaction contents out of attackers' reach until inclusion. But even they might not be enough on their own without privacy, for example if the victim is too predictable. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2609.28115

oh my Monad oh my beautiful Monad

Every day I have to go through life knowing I will never be Kerry Packer >won $20m in 40 minutes at blackjack >offered to coin-flip a Texan for his entire $100m net worth after he started flexing around him >famously tipped dealers 6 figs, had a waitress fired/rehired so he could pay her $130k mortgage, gave brand new BMW/Mercedes to valets >literally died for 7 minutes, came back, kept gambling >a defibrillator saved his life, so he paid to put one in every ambulance in the state of Sydney so other people could be saved too >got grilled in Parliament over tax minimisation and told them “of course I am minimising my tax… you’re not spending it so well that we should be donating extra” Frankly, this is unbearable to me My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

1/ Huge respect for Dragonfly continuing to invest in the bear market. But I'm morally obliged to call out sketchy projects gaining momentum. As a community we must preempt large scale implosions like #FTX or #LUNA that set the industry back years Bitget may be the next FTX 🧵

$CYPH now has weekly options enabled Shit’s about to get wild zcash:native

The $84K BTC community thinks it’s mega bullish for BTC to become more like Zcash. Now imagine how bullish that is for $1.5K Zcash. 👽🛸

not sure anyone read the thing beyond the title tl;dr - if you somehow solved the laundry list of fundamental issues, then even after that you would still be roughly 7 years behind zcash it's a synthetic ledger with significant tradeoffs, some of which are fundamental (can't be mitigated), and others requiring many, many years of work + new research to be published and scrutinized (assuming it can even work) the Bitcoin L1 does not validate the private state, prevent double-spends, or reconcile the balances, that's enforced by some offchain protocol -- so, saying L1 transfers is not entirely honest it also has: - a trusted setup - no fee anonymization (much worse than it sounds) - no in-protocol mechanism for getting actual BTC in or out (which means you are holding synthetics) - no real consideration for scale - several offchain parts that can't be run locally which means tracing and linkage and censorship - vulnerability to quantum without a plan - no working implementation for witness encryption where the last used scheme was broken (!) and depends on 330 TB ciphertext. that's terabytes btw (though they claim advancements here so let's see) it only somewhat can work if: i) you somehow acquire the private synthetic BTC inside their ledger to begin with (you cant) ii) every counterparty recognizes the same offchain metaprotocol iii) some trust minimized mechanism connects the synthetic balances back to actual BTC iv) several other advancements are made to the scale, quantum, and foundational cryptography considerations, which is experimental and would require many years to establish (if at all) point iii) specifically means that this is not fungible for the underlying I respect that people are working on this and taking notes from zcash finally. but the claims on this app vs. what's established are light years apart

I thought zcash was going to zillions But it seems to zilllliiaaaarddddzzzzz

Shielded Bitcoin: Private Transfers on Bitcoin L1

are we really calling this altseason when sol + xrp are barely 9% of btc inflows? 🤡

It’s time to bust the MEV cartel

Cardinal Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, July 14, 1602 – March 9, 1661) ranks among the most influential statesmen of seventeenth-century France. An Italian by birth, he rose to become cardinal and principal minister, first under Louis XIII and subsequently during the formative years of Louis XIV’s reign. He personified diplomatic acumen, discreet yet decisive authority, and the consolidation of monarchical power. His passion for letters and erudition prompted him to assemble one of the largest private libraries of his time, which, preserved as the Bibliothèque Mazarine, remains the oldest public library in France and continues to be housed within the Institut de France. Among the works contained in Mazarin’s collection was a copy of Bellum Scodrense by Giorgio Merula (Latinized Georgius Merula), the Italian Renaissance humanist and philologist. Merula, both historian and editor of the Latin classics, composed this text in the immediate aftermath of the Ottoman siege of Shkodra. Framed within the conventions of classical historiography, his narrative elevated the Albanian resistance into the register of heroic antiquity. Within this account appears a particularly telling remark: « De inuadenda Macedonia quæ ad mare Adriaticum recedit, & a iunioribus Albania dicitur » that is, « He turned his mind to the invasion of Macedonia, which stretches toward the Adriatic Sea and is called Albania by the younger generation. » This formulation leaves no room for ambiguity: it directly associates the Macedonia extending to the Adriatic with the name Albania. The same identification reappears in the Albanian humanist Marin Barleti, an eyewitness of the siege itself. Born in Shkodra ca. 1450, Barleti was present during the events of 1478–79 and, after taking refuge in Italy, composed his celebrated De obsidione Scodrensi (1504). In this work he writes: « in Macedonia, quae nunc vernaculo sermone Albania dicitur, quia incolentes ex antiquo Epirotica lingua utuntur »that is, « in Macedonia, which in the vernacular tongue is now called Albania, since its inhabitants from antiquity have used the Epirote language… » Elsewhere he underscores the city’s geopolitical centrality: « Scodra, Macedoniae ora maris caput », that is, « Shkodra, the capital of the Macedonian seacoast. » The significance of these passages is considerable. Merula, writing as an Italian Renaissance humanist, and Barleti, testifying as an Albanian participant and survivor, converge on the same identification: Albania was regarded as part of ancient Macedonia, and its inhabitants as preservers of the Epirote tongue from antiquity. Taken together, the testimonies of Merula and Barleti illustrate both the immediate humanist reception and the lived memory of the Albanian resistance. More than a century later, Mazarin, the architect of French absolutism, ensured the preservation of Merula’s work within his library, thereby transmitting this narrative into the intellectual culture of seventeenth-century Europe. In so doing, he perpetuated an image of Albania as the heir to Macedonia and Epirus, a land of heroic antiquity recast as Christendom’s bulwark against the Ottoman Empire. portail.biblissima.fr/ark:/4… #albania #macedonia🇦🇱 #history #source #french