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MercedHees retweeted
ok so looks like the largest crypto hack of all time, here's where we're at:
Stolen:
• ~$5.57B across Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tron: ~$3.51B ETH, ~$1.44B BTC, ~$630M Tron.
Frozen:
• ~$2.39B in stablecoins: ~$1.567B USDT, ~$823M USDC
• Aave froze V3 and V4 on eth mainnet, precautionary but prevents the attacker from causing bad debt with illicit funds
leaves residual exposure at ~$2.6–$3.2B, beating out Feb 2025's $1.5B Bybit hack for the largest crypto heist of all time.
MercedHees retweeted
I am excited to be an investor in trade(xyz) as they partner with ICE to bring 24/7 perpetual futures on Hyperliquid to the United States. As a market participant, I am looking forward to to using their innovative product to enhance my investment process.
MercedHees retweeted
Growing up in the United States, NYSE was synonymous with the story of American capitalism. I vividly remember learning about the Buttonwood agreement in 9th grade history class. 24 stockbrokers met under a tree on Wall Street and formed the beginning of what would become the world's financial center. From pits to computers to now onchain markets, America has always led the way in innovating markets to improve price discovery and capital formation. Today the next chapter begins with ICE, trade[XYZ], and Hyperliquid.
ICE started as an electricity-trading platform in 2000, growing to acquire NYSE itself in only 13 years. It is a key infrastructure provider of America’s energy, bond, and mortgage markets. ICE is a rare story of exponential growth of a financial giant over decades, continually embracing innovation and technology.
trade[XYZ] was the first HIP-3 deployer and responsible for spearheading the flourishing global RWA perpetual market today. Only a year ago, trade[XYZ] launched its first RWA perpetual markets. They took a bet on HIP-3, which had just launched after months of tireless development. Having followed their journey from day 1, I cannot overstate how much Shoku and the team have poured into growing these markets to a genuine source of price discovery for the most important assets in the world.
Over the past three years, Hyperliquid has pioneered onchain infrastructure to house all of finance. Hyperliquid is nothing without its world-class builders. I am honored that trade[XYZ] and ICE have chosen to build on Hyperliquid to bring perpetual contracts to America.
When I first spoke to Jeff Sprecher around a year ago, he asked what success looks like to me. I thought for some time and joked that it would be seeing ICE building on Hyperliquid's technology. I could never have predicted the progress that we've made as a community in a single year to make this come true. Excited to see what we can build together next.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and trade[XYZ] have announced their plan to use Hyperliquid as the infrastructure layer to deploy perpetual futures markets for US traders across crypto, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and other real-world assets, subject to regulatory approvals. ICE operates NYSE and some of the largest exchanges and clearing houses globally.
In this structure:
+ Hyperliquid serves as the underlying technology infrastructure via HIP-3*
+ trade[XYZ] designs and implements the markets
+ ICE operates the regulated market and clearing structure
Existing trade[XYZ] HIP-3 markets will remain unchanged.
Hyperliquid is a neutral infrastructure layer with the goal of supporting large parts of the financial system. As with HIP-3, HIP-3* deployers are independent operators who use Hyperliquid as the onchain infrastructure layer for their own markets, while retaining control and responsibility over their deployment.
MercedHees retweeted
I don't understand the people rooting for Robinhood Chain to die. It's the best chance we have at getting back the volume we had on Solana in 2025.
I don't think the recent decline is all on the Robinhood team, but they could have done better. So here's what I think went wrong and how they could win back their market share, because we should all want Robinhood Chain to come back.
Distribution was the whole point
A lot of Robinhood Chain's success came from the hope of distribution to the 25M customers on the main app. That's what brought the volume in the first place: the dream of reaching buyers outside our CT echo chamber.
Listing $CASHCAT in the main app accelerated that. Today over 20% of its supply sits in Robinhood wallets. That tells us, and the team, that app customers really do want onchain tokens.
We expected it to continue. Robinhood would help push tokens past their usual ceilings by putting them in front of a far bigger customer base, like they did with $CASHCAT. That didn't happen.
$PONS ran to almost a billion dollars and Robinhood did nothing. Coinbase listed $PONS before Robinhood did, and Binance listed $AI before Robinhood did. Distribution is why these coins went so high in the first place, and after $CASHCAT we got no help.
The chain needs leaders
A chain is a living ecosystem. It needs leaders who give it direction and bring it to life. Vlad and the team were very active in the first 60 days, and that's why everyone traded there.
As the summit got closer, the team went quiet and focused on other things. That's when we started to dump. It began to feel like Base, where the founder is out of touch with the trenches and slow to react.
Then the summit itself gave a lot of people hope for a roadmap, or anything that pointed the chain in a direction. We got nothing. The chain wasn't mentioned once.
Chain TVL is at an all time high, because RWA tokenization works. That doesn't mean anything else works.
Builder support is missing too. The Robinhood account has recently interacted with some projects on the chain, which is good. But formal support would help aspiring builders a lot: grants, hackathons, audit help, market making and incentives.
It can still be saved
All of this makes it sound like the chain didn't work out. It can still be saved if they act now.
1. Engage with the chain. We need a founder who's in touch with the ecosystem and engages with the cool stuff being built.
2. List more onchain tokens than $CASHCAT. The goal shouldn't be to kingmake one token. It should be to support the whole ecosystem by showing that any token can make it into the main app if it builds something good or gets enough attention. That's what keeps traders on the chain.
3. A formal builder support. If that means growing the team and bringing in more onchain natives to help the chain grow, make it the priority. Put a hackathon, grants and general help on the roadmap.
Nobody expected the chain to grow the way it did. Now it's time to adapt to the growth.
You still have the chance to revive the trenches here. @vladtenev @JohannKerbrat @fern
MercedHees retweeted
rare trait for credits has been revealed
requires burning 720 credits to create an inverted statement which is about 16 eth at current prices
doubt there will be more than 10-20 of these
MercedHees retweeted
robinhood:0xaa07a0e9209e16ac99708c3ec70159c6ef3128a3 is now offering users best-in-class private inference on the following open-weight models thanks to Phala's aggregator:
- Kimi K3, Kimi K2.6 (Chutes)
- DeepSeek V4 Flash, DeepSeek V3.2 (Chutes)
- GLM-5.3 (Phala), GLM-5.3 Flash (NEAR AI), GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.1 (Chutes)
- Qwen3.5 397B-A17B (Chutes)
Frontrunning any TEE fud with the following explainer:
as far as remote private inference goes, we are still technologically limited. There is no offering that facilitates high tps AND full encryption... for anything interactive, the practical options are TEEs (trust the hardware, risk bad actors within the datacenter) or running the model locally (trust yourself, have 5-6 figs in equipment).
With this unlock, users, including startups like the buildathon winners who are now bootstrapped with inference from Orbio, can build without exposing proprietary info and risk OpenAI/Anthropic eating their lunch.
The YC of Inference, orbillions
Introducing Orbio Incognito.
Agents can now make end-to-end encrypted inference requests through Orbio, powered by @PhalaNetwork’s confidential GPU infrastructure and hardware-attested execution.
Our agent toolkit handles encryption, key verification, verifiable receipts and local decryption across coding harnesses and SDKs.
Go beyond ZDR promises. Your prompts and responses stay encrypted through our gateway.
MercedHees retweeted
Pendle integration into Agentic launchpad in a single day.
A month ago i was in telegram chats speculating on all the potential outcomes robinhood:0xaa07a0e9209e16ac99708c3ec70159c6ef3128a3 could have because the token design is so elegant.
An agent launchpad paired to Orbio to self-fund inference was the delusional bullcase and here it is.
Thank you to those who helped me form conviction on this one, see you at 1B.
Introducing Orbio Agentic Launchpad
Launch a token, and it funds its own intelligence. Trading fees turn into tokenized CREDIT the agent spends on models, X, web search, scraping, onchain reads, publishing.
First 100 launches start with $10 of inference on us.
No keys to top up, no human in the loop.
MercedHees retweeted
At 9AM EST today somebody abused a bug in Payment Processor V2 to steal 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 WoW, and 235 Desperate Apewives.
It wasn't until over 12 hours later that somebody reported it to me, and upon digging in I realized that a great many NFTs were subject to the same exploit.
I got in touch with the team over at LimitBreak and they quickly paused Payment Processor V3, which was subject to the same exploit. Unfortunately, V2 was not pausable, so the only path towards protecting affected assets was to run a whitehat operation.
Similarly, V3 on ApeChain is temporarily in a state where it cannot be paused, so ApeChain assets approved to V3 needed to be saved as well.
All in all, we rescued 23,155 NFTs worth north of $5.7M USD.
We later discovered that a similar exploit could be used in reverse to steal WETH. 660 WETH was at risk, which we unfortunately were not fast enough to recover. Apologies to those affected.
Shout out to @Boomskite for flagging the initial exploit tx to me, and @coffeedev @0xjustadev and @whiteoakkong for acting quickly and assisting with the recovery.
All NFTs are safely relocated. Soon, owners will be able claim them back after revoking the exploitable approvals.
Addresses to revoke below.
MercedHees retweeted
statement arrangements will open in 8 days, on 10/1
you can make one statement with any 80 credits
I'll update this thread with how statements will work
