“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.” I work at Hypernative. Opinions my own.

Sam Friedman retweeted
Claw machines funded the pipeline for the robot fleet That's the part everyone skips when they talk about rwa. You don't start with the capital-intensive thing. You start with something cheap that prints cash on day one, a $1k machine in a mall, and prove the underwriting model works before you move to $50k robots. The same operator math applies. The same verification layer. The coin box data feeds the same model that will underwrite a robot arm. We earned it with claw machines.
Every machine class that proves steady cashflow eventually gets financing built around it, this time, it's the machine itself doing the proving, onchain. DualMint's starting with claw machines. Robots are next.
1
1
83
Sam Friedman retweeted
Bitget's own wallets signed away ~$387M. No private key was stolen. We rebuilt the drain onchain: ~$290M left in 24 seconds of signing, with Bitget's own fee settings on every EVM chain. The gas limit gave the attacker away. Full analysis: buff.ly/zczt4VC
4
14
921
Sam Friedman retweeted
I'm throwing NYC's first @XMoney event "FINANCIAL DDOS" NYC MEETUP @XMoney x @UsePaid x $e/acc 🕑 Sep. 27th, 2 - 5 pm 📍Corgi Cafe. 27th Street, NYC Come meet other e/accs, founders, investors, and traders. Learn about the new meta. Link in comments below.
i have an idea... it involves $e/acc, @usepaid, and @XMoney comment you want in
21
13
61
31,557
Sam Friedman retweeted
Autonomous agents are only as trustworthy as the defenses protecting them. Our new post digs into prompt injection mitigation — practical ways to harden your gateway so agents stay secure, predictable, and production-ready. 🔗 blog.nebulablock.com/prompt-… ----- #AISecurity #PromptInjection #AIAgents #NebulaBlock
1
3
558
Sam Friedman retweeted
Everyone wants exposure to tokenized stocks. But do you have a protected claim to backing securities? @annabelleacta gave the breakdown behind Dinari's custodial model with dShares™. Regulated custody is table stakes for anyone dealing in US securities. The real question is whether you have any claim on what sits in that account. With dShares™, you do. Dinari Securities, our registered broker-dealer, acquires the backing security into a custodial brokerage account, and you hold a regulated, protected claim to it. The rights you expect from being an investor in US capital markets, preserved. This includes cash dividends, fully automated corporate actions and redemption at NBBO. 724 tokenized equities, including the S&P 500, available to eligible investors in 85+ countries and now to the US as well. dShares™ are stocks.
5
1
27
4,207
Great comprehensive article on the AI safety-risk importance of humans reading and understanding the code. Good callouts of human biases towards investigating failures more than successes (which could be false positives) and limitations of oracles.
1
3
316
Sam Friedman retweeted
Fast confirmation rule can make bridging across Ethereum and L2s: - Cheaper (no need to pay bps to solvers) - Faster (13mins -> 12 seconds) - Universal (available to all tokens with a simple integration) This is a zero-to-hero guide if you're not deeply technical, but want to know what FCR does for cross-chain interoperability.
6
25
1,742
Sam Friedman retweeted
I've been excited to announce this for a few weeks now... @lolo_IRL will be the official networking and agenda platform for Boston Blockchain Week. At a conference, everyone wants to know 2 things: > who's here? > where do I go? Lolo solves this. Lolo's purpose is to help people connect IRL, and for that, context matters. One of the strongest signals of context is someone's profession – in the case of @blockchainwk, everyone attending will relate on crypto, tech, and finance. This creates a perfect environment of network density in which everyone there is aligned, and will likely want to accomplish comparable goals and go to similar events. Lolo provides a single, easy platform to accomplish all of that. No more jumping around 5 telegram group chats, sending RSVP links and asking on X "who's in Boston?". Lolo fixes it. And afterward, everyone who went to BBW can stay connected for the future. On Lolo, your global network grows and compounds with every new connection and event, meaning you'll have people you already know at that next conference, and the one after that. I'm looking forward to taking on this mission for Lolo, providing a platform and product which upgrades Boston Blockchain Week overall. Ready to sink our teeth in and show what we can do, Sep. 8 - 10 in Quincy, MA. Let's gooo. 😁🦾
We’re pleased to announce that Lolo will be the official networking and agenda platform for @blockchainwk – Sep. 8-10, 2026. Lolo upgrades the BBW experience, allowing attendees to connect before, during, and long-after the event ends. Let us show you how 🧵
20
10
44
3,651
Sam Friedman retweeted
Why was cross-chain the biggest design decision behind BKN 2.0? Because the agentic economy doesn't respect chain boundaries. BKN 2.0 was built on @chainlink CCIP from the start. Cross-chain movement is the foundation the token was designed around. The reason is straightforward. If BKN is going to fuel agents operating across on-chain markets, those agents need an asset that moves with them. Locked to one chain means locked out of most of the opportunity. Cross-chain by default means BKN can plug into whichever network the agent is transacting on, securely and without custody workarounds. More chains reached. More markets accessible. More surface area for the agentic economy to actually take shape. Read the webinar recap: brickken.com/post/bkn-2-tech…
82
40
132
5,390
Sam Friedman retweeted
1/ Over 90% of stolen funds aren't smart contract hacks, they're operational security failures. Social engineering. SIM-swaps. Phishing. Malware. Insider threats. Domain hijacks. Builders face a barrage of threats on a daily basis, and these threats are only getting more sophisticated. Today, we're onboarding industry-leading web3 OpSec firms to the Ethereum Security Subsidy Program to help @ethereum builders stay ahead of them.
1
6
25
4,476
Sam Friedman retweeted
🚨 Hugging Face just disclosed something that marks a real shift and proved why the fear theater of Anthropic makes sure we are powerless in an emergency. What happened… An autonomous AI agent: zero human operator in the loop breached part of their production infrastructure. It began with a malicious dataset that chained two code-execution bugs in their data-processing pipeline. From there the agent escalated privileges, harvested cloud and cluster credentials, and moved laterally across internal clusters. All over a single weekend. 17,000+ logged actions. Official disclosure: huggingface.co/blog/security… The part that should make every one stop and think: When HF’s own security team tried to analyze the real attack logs, exploit payloads, and C2 artifacts using Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models through normal commercial APIs, the safety guardrails blocked them. BLOCKED THEM. The models could not reliably tell the difference between “incident responder doing forensics” and “attacker probing.” They had to fall back to a self-hosted open-weight model (GLM 5.2) running on their own infrastructure. That choice also kept sensitive attacker data and referenced credentials inside their environment — no exfiltration to a third-party API. This is why open source (specifically open-weight + self-hosted) wins in the agentic era. The asymmetry is now structural: • Attackers can (and did) run unrestricted agent frameworks — swarms of short-lived sandboxes, self-migrating command-and-control, autonomous decision loops executing thousands of actions. No corporate safety layer slows them down. • Defenders using only hosted “aligned” frontier models hit invisible walls exactly when the stakes are highest: when you need to feed real exploit code and attacker telemetry into an LLM to understand what just happened. Corporate safety tuning that treats legitimate high-signal forensic work as potential misuse creates a defender disadvantage. It is not theoretical anymore. Self-hosted open-weight models remove that choke point. You control the weights. You control the context window. You decide what restrictions (if any) apply. Your sensitive logs and credentials never leave your perimeter during analysis. You can have the model ready before the incident instead of discovering mid-breach that your primary analysis tools are blind to the very thing you need to see. HF deserves credit for rapid containment, transparent disclosure, and for already having self-hosted capability in place. They also used LLM-driven detection and triage on their own side. But the deeper signal is clear: In this AI world where both offense and defense are becoming agentic, sovereignty over your intelligence stack is no longer optional. The organizations and individuals who can run, inspect, audit, and (when necessary) remove guardrails on their own models will have the decisive edge in understanding and responding to threats that move at machine speed. Open source wins here not just because it is cheaper or more “democratic” in the abstract though those things matter. It wins because it is the only practical path to having tools that remain usable when the attack is real, the data is sensitive, and the safety filters of distant API providers become an obstacle instead of a feature selling hands tied lobotomies as “safety”. The agentic future is not coming. It is already probing production infrastructure. The question is no longer whether you will face autonomous agents. It is whether your analysis and response systems will still work when they arrive. And Dario, you and your game playing, ivory tower company is not needed.
316
1,242
6,033
1,531,567
Sam Friedman retweeted
Poppie is live. Borrow against your tokenized stock portfolio in a few taps. No paperwork, no minimums, no hidden fees. Live on @BNBChain, powered by @eulerfinance, with @ondofinance assets, and @chainlink data feeds.
3
1
15
1,309
Sam Friedman retweeted
NEW: Injective has filed for transfer agent registration with the SEC, a step toward bringing one of traditional finance's core market functions onchain. If approved, the network aims to maintain the official ownership records for tokenized securities and RWAs directly onchain.
11
21
157
31,752
Sam Friedman retweeted
Introducing Poppie: borrow against your stock portfolio in a few taps. 37 tokenized stocks now live as collateral. No paperwork, no minimums, no origination fees. Built on @eulerfinance, live on @BNBChain, powered by @ondofinance assets and @chainlink data feeds 👇
30
29
185
54,481
Sam Friedman retweeted
A few weeks in as CEO of @AscendFi and it's been a wild ride. We run Ascend AI-first as a team, and it shows in how fast we move. On July 8, 10 AM ET, I'll walk through all that's been happening with the new leadership team. Set your reminder: x.com/i/spaces/1DxLddrqoXQxm…
2
16
566
Sam Friedman retweeted
NEW: Arc, the L1 chain developed by @circle, officially joins Chainlink Scale to provide devs access to institutional oracle infra: 🔗 CCIP ⚡ Data Streams 📊 Data Feeds 🏦 Proof of Reserve Arc 🤝 Chainlink
Arc 🤝 Chainlink Arc has joined the @Chainlink Scale program to provide developers with secure access to premium enterprise-grade infrastructure. Builders on Arc can now leverage Chainlink’s enterprise-grade suite of services to power advanced onchain applications, including: → CCIP → Data Streams → Data Feeds → Proof of Reserve Arc is built for composable applications from day one.
84
274
1,151
79,007
Sam Friedman retweeted
🚨 Most phishing attacks don't start with a splash. They start with one fake account. One suspicious link. One impersonation that looks just real enough. When people report these early signals, patterns emerge before the threat hits scale. That's how you stop a campaign before it starts. You don't need to be certain it's malicious. If something feels off, report it. Those few seconds make the whole system sharper for everyone.
6
8
344