Finding Satoshi doc was great. But, they missed a clue. Citation [2] in whitepaper is an obscure print-only paper from a conference in Belgium. It was basically only accessible via local university libraries in the region until 2020. Sassaman was PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium.

I think the probability of this is extremely low

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Drift never made right the losses they occurred from the first issues of 2022 when Luna went to 0 and the system was attacked. Not sure why anyone ever trusted them after

Very possibly an inside job, considering the criminal history of @DriftProtocol founders

🚨BREAKING: Drift Protocol just got drained for over $200 million Solana's largest perps DEX. Gone in one transaction batch. The attacker didn't find a smart contract bug. They didn't exploit a flash loan. They walked in with the keys. On-chain data shows a single account initiating massive outbound transfers. SOL, JitoSOL, WETH, wrapped BTC, stablecoins in USD, EUR, and JPY. Even FARTCOIN. They took the FARTCOIN. A blockchain security researcher confirmed what everyone suspected: a private key compromise. The admin signer was either leaked or someone with access pulled the trigger themselves. And here's what makes it worse. The attacker funded the wallets a week before the exploit. Ran a test transaction. Then waited. This wasn't a hack. This was a heist with a rehearsal. Phantom Wallet already cut off access to the protocol. Drift posted about "unusual activity" and told users to stop depositing. $200 million gone and the official response is "unusual activity." Some estimates put the real number closer to $270 million. We won't know until the dust settles and the wallets stop moving. The funds are already being swapped to USDC and bridged to Ethereum. Classic exit playbook. This is potentially the largest Web3 exploit in three years. But who needs security when you have speed, right Kyle? 🚀

CFTC @ChairmanSelig laid out an exciting roadmap for the Commission's top priorities at @MilkenInstitute's Future of Finance 2026 today: "I view Project Crypto as a historic initiative between the agencies to upgrade and modernize our rules and regulations and future-proof them for technologies like crypto...." "Many of the firms want to move onchain. The prior administration drove a lot of these firms and the liquidity offshore. The perpetuals markets are a great example of this. We've had perpetual futures contracts in crypto assets for a very long time[,] but they've developed offshore[.] We've got to bring that back to the United States. We need to have that liquidity here in the U.S...." "We're working towards getting perpetual futures, true perpetual futures, not long-dated contracts, here in the U.S. within the next month or so.... We're also working towards onchain markets, so we're looking to have clear guidance as to what sort of digital wallets would implicate our regulations. The prior administration really went after firms that were just offering software products...." "We're also working towards regulations that accommodate onchain software systems, so decentralized finance protocols and other types of blockchain networks.... We're going to make sure it's very clear as to what implicates the CFTC's regulations and what doesn't, and to the extent that an onchain software system or front-end does implicate our rules or regulations, we're modernizing and future-proofing those rules so that there's a place for all of that." HPC applauds Chairman Selig's forward-thinking approach to regulation and stands ready to support his crucial work ensuring that decentralized markets for perpetual derivatives thrive in the United States. 🇺🇸

And there it is: Jane Street was behind the 2022 crypto winter, destroying Terraform by first depegging the token and destroying the ecosystem, then pretending it would rescue Terra, while effectively it was soaking up what little value remained.

Take your bets: - Polymarket / Kalshi (somewhat likely) - Hyperliquid (unlikely) - Lighter (unlikely) - Pumpfun (highly likely) - Any trading terminal, like Axiom (highly likely) Who you got?

Polymarket are now removing some of their derivate markets as people are catching on to how they can be rigged with the fake order glitch Attackers can post taker & maker orders which fill via the API but don’t get matched on chain This removes liquidity from the OB at no cost

The punic wars, but this time for puns

Honestly, having lived in both the West and Asia for perhaps equal parts of the last 6–7 years, I really do think the West is cooked. Asia is mostly full of optimism. It’s young, vibrant, and international. The West is absolutely lagging in the things that were once its points of difference (tech, quality of living, education), to the point that in a globalised world, apart from some very specialised services (think health, etc.), there’s no clear edge. High-speed internet access, and the growth of Chinese GDP and subsequent FDI via Belt and Road, have basically made Western standards of infrastructure seem “oriental” in comparison. Why rot away in a 3–4k a month apartment in your white trash republic when you could afford a two-storey loft in the inner ring of a high-end designer suburb in Asia for that same capital outflow? If it weren’t for the physical shackles of jobs, I could see a mass exodus or reverse brain drain from the West in the coming five years. Seriously, forget Dubai, it’s a soulless hellscape. East/SEA/China max and chill.

He helped scale FTX into a giant. Now @BrettHarrison has raised $52M to build @Architect_Fi’s AX, the first regulated exchange for perpetual futures on traditional assets. Tune in to learn about how Brett is using a crypto primitive to tap into a $15T+/day market.