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Caducus retweeted
Introducing Chainlink CustodySync, a new solution that lets qualified custodians give their institutional clients access to DeFi lending markets, all while assets remain securely in custody.
With @Anchorage as the official launch partner, together we’re establishing a new standard for institutional DeFi.
CustodySync keeps custody and lending systems in sync across the full lifecycle of a loan:
→ For custodians: faster time to market and lower operational overhead, with custodian-managed controls
→ For lending markets: independent, verifiable data and a consistent risk framework
→ For institutions: passive capital becomes productive capital
More than $80 billion sits in DeFi lending markets. Meanwhile, the roughly $700 billion in digital assets under custody is less than 0.5% of all $250 trillion in traditional assets under custody. The opportunity to connect traditional institutional capital to onchain finance remains vast.
Large institutions have lacked a secure way of accessing these markets. Regulations require many of them to keep their digital assets with a qualified custodian, a firm that meets specific requirements for holding assets on behalf of clients, and custody systems were never built for DeFi. Even when custody and lending systems are connected, inconsistent loan valuations can trigger premature liquidation or delayed liquidations, exposing borrowers and lenders to significant financial risk.
@Anchorage, home to the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the U.S., is the first qualified custodian to adopt CustodySync, connecting its institutional clients to DeFi lending markets while their assets remain in regulated custody.
Institutional capital no longer has to choose between the security of custody and the liquidity of DeFi.
With Chainlink, it gets both.
Caducus retweeted
NEW: LG CNS, the technology arm of LG Group, enters a strategic partnership with Chainlink to advance Korea’s $68B digital asset market.
LG Group is one of Korea’s largest business groups, with approximately ₩186 trillion in assets across 63 affiliates. LG CNS is the lead contractor for the Bank of Korea’s flagship digital currency initiative, Project Hangang.
Through the partnership, LG CNS and Chainlink will:
• Enhance LG CNS’s digital asset platform solution with Chainlink’s cross-chain, data, and orchestration infrastructure
• Collaborate on digital asset solutions for Korean institutions using the full Chainlink platform
• Advance the next generation of technical standards underpinning Korea’s digital asset economy
The partnership is built for one of the world’s most active and technologically advanced digital asset markets. Korea is Asia's second-largest digital asset market, with the Korean won consistently ranking second in crypto trading volume, behind only the U.S. dollar.
By combining LG CNS’s institutional expertise with Chainlink technology standards, the partnership establishes the foundation for compliant digital asset infrastructure in Korea and for global expansion.
Thrilled to welcome @GenLayer to Arbitrum
GenLayer is the adjudication layer for the agentic economy, where validators running different AI models make the onchain judgments
The programmable economy grows
I really hope we aren't living in the times were a micro KOL (sorry didn't even check your acc) will post a bunch of vibecodes on a X_POST and people will replicate to be saved by a critical vulnerability.
This is insane.
You are insane.
And people are stupid.
That's dangerous.
Here is a full list of what you can do NOW for PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619) as a temporary mitigation.
(generated and validated by LLM)
1️⃣ Do this first. In php.ini or the FPM pool, set:
session.upload_progress.enabled = 0
Reload PHP-FPM, then update PHP right after the release (21 Oct, 14:00 UTC).
2️⃣ Edge block until you patch. It blocks the PHPSESSID cookie and query (also lowercase and URL-encoded), and all multipart/form-data requests.
⚠️ File uploads stop working until you remove it.
☁️ Cloudflare (WAF custom rule, action Block):
(lower(url_decode(http.cookie)) contains "phpsessid") or (lower(url_decode(http.request.uri.query)) contains "phpsessid") or (any(lower(http.request.headers["content-type"][*])[*] contains "multipart/form-data"))
🟩 nginx (http {} context):
map "$http_cookie|$args|$content_type" $block_php2shell {
default 0;
"~*(?:p|%[57]0)(?:h|%[46]8)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:e|%[46]5)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:i|%[46]9)(?:d|%[46]4)" 1;
"~*multipart/form-data" 1;
}
In each server {} block:
if ($block_php2shell) { return 403; }
🔒 Caddy:
@php2shell expression `{header.Cookie}.matches("(?i)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:h|%[46]8)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:e|%[46]5)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:i|%[46]9)(?:d|%[46]4)") || {query}.matches("(?i)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:h|%[46]8)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:e|%[46]5)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:i|%[46]9)(?:d|%[46]4)") || {header.Content-Type}.matches("(?i)multipart/form-data")`
respond @php2shell 403
🚦 Traefik v3 (Coolify: Server > Proxy > Dynamic Configurations). Add this to the https router and also to a copy for the http entrypoint:
http:
routers:
block-php2shell:
rule: "HeaderRegexp(`Cookie`, `(?i)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:h|%[46]8)(?:p|%[57]0)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:e|%[46]5)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:s|%[57]3)(?:i|%[46]9)(?:d|%[46]4)`) || QueryRegexp(`PHPSESSID`, `.*`) || HeaderRegexp(`Content-Type`, `(?i)multipart/form-data`)"
priority: 100000
entryPoints: [https]
middlewares: [deny-all]
service: noop@internal
tls: {}
middlewares:
deny-all:
ipAllowList:
sourceRange: ["255.255.255.255/32"]
✅ Test:
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -H 'Cookie: PHPSESSID=x' https://your-app → 403
curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -F a=b https://your-app → 403
The edge block does not protect direct origin access. Disable upload_progress and patch PHP.
Caducus retweeted
🥧BAKED IN🥧
Any developer that uses OpenZeppelin templates or token wizard for their token (hint: they all do) can now easily get CCIP and ACE standards baked in.
Today we’re announcing a strategic partnership with @chainlink
Chainlink CCIP and ACE are now natively embedded across OpenZeppelin tooling, giving institutions and developers one trusted foundation for moving assets and operations onchain.
Caducus retweeted
Quantum now has its own token map: post-quantum L1s, chains adding upgrades, quantum-branded coins.
A narrative is easy to list. Resilience is harder to prove.
Which of these can actually migrate their cryptography?
That’s what we rate at Verdict.
THE @chainlink STANDARD
Today we’re announcing a strategic partnership with @chainlink
Chainlink CCIP and ACE are now natively embedded across OpenZeppelin tooling, giving institutions and developers one trusted foundation for moving assets and operations onchain.
Caducus retweeted
We are the cows of the future.
Cows don’t know money exists, yet the bond market runs their lives. When AI agents build a financial system more sophisticated than we can follow, that’s us.
We need to see what agents are exposed to, in real time.
That’s Verdict.
Caducus retweeted
DeFi protocols, chains, and infrastructure teams have two modes.
Chase the narrative. Or scramble to fix a catastrophe after it happens.
Neither one is risk management.
No one is building the layer that stops the catastrophe before it arrives.
That’s the gap Verdict exists to close.
Caducus retweeted
Most well-known chains, infrastructure projects, and DeFi protocols are quietly getting ready for quantum attacks.
The work is happening behind closed doors. Key scheme audits, post-quantum migration planning, architecture reviews. The teams that understand what’s coming aren’t waiting for it to be urgent.
We’re already working with protocols on exactly this. Mapping quantum exposure, identifying vulnerable cryptographic dependencies, and building a path to post-quantum readiness before it becomes a crisis.
Is your protocol doing the same?
Quantum readiness is a Verdict rating criterion. DM us to find out how we can help you quantum-proof your protocol.
Couldn't agree more. This leaves a very bad precedent for future bugs and it's not the first time. Ripple is known for being cheap and not giving enough support where it's needed. They have no problem spending millions in events and PR campaigns, but when it comes to really supporting XRPL and its builders thry become reluctant and give these ridiculous amounts. The XRPL ecosystem is in a very sad state right now and it keeps getting worse.
Replying to @XRPLF
Cheaply paying the whitehat $250K for a critical infinite XRP supply bug when your treasury has billions?
Thanks for helping ensure the next time an attacker exploits it for 9 figures instead of reporting it in good faith.
This is why people do not take XRPL or Ripple seriously as an org….
so about the $86m ledger drain. everyone’s screaming “ledger got hacked” again. i spent the evening digging and it’s dumber and scarier than that
there’s a shop in malaysia called cryptobilis that sells hardware wallets. ledger has it listed as an official authorized reseller since at least 2022, for malaysia, indonesia and the philippines. legit shop, real devices, years of normal customers
this spring the founders sell it. the deal comes with an NDA: they can’t tell anyone about the sale until october 19
by august the company registry shows one owner with 100%. some guy from heilongjiang, china
the shop keeps running like nothing happened. the site, the name and the “authorized by ledger” badge all stay up
then on oct 8 @MagicalTux posts photos of a ledger he cracked open. hidden under the screen there’s an extra little board with an LTE modem and an eSIM. it just watches the display. you set up your wallet, your 24 words show up, and they get sent out over mobile data. ledger’s genuine check doesn’t catch it because the actual ledger chip is real. his device came from malaysia
xitter.cf/MagicalTux/status/2108…
that post does 120k views
22 hours later someone sweeps everything. 203 BTC hits two addresses in literally one block. ~$58m USDT moves on tron in the same hour. i added up all the wallets: ~$91m
about 7 hours after that ledger says “we’re investigating” and asks cryptobilis to pause sales
cryptobilis is still on ledger’s site as an authorized reseller
to be fair, nobody has officially tied the new owner to the bugged devices yet, and ledger hasn’t confirmed how it happened. but read it as a business plan:
get authorized, sell real stuff for years, quietly sell the company under an NDA, keep the badge, ship devices that phone home, then drain everything the second someone notices
and was ledger even told the shop got sold? nobody’s said so
“authorized reseller” means ledger trusted whoever ran the shop back in 2022. says nothing about who runs it today
bought your hardware wallet anywhere but the manufacturer? open it up today, ledger literally has a guide for that. then move to a fresh seed on a device bought direct
wonder who’s going to answer for this: the chinese frontman from heilongjiang, the shop’s previous owners, or ledger itself
@Ledger clearly needs to keep a much closer eye on who they call official resellers, and take way more responsibility for who sells their devices and how
Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses.
Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: support.ledger.com/
Blockchain and smart contracts fix this.
Start demanding with your vote
Caducus retweeted
ep 0 of “What’s The Verdict?” is live
.@cholmes (Verdict) + @bockus (@Fidesiumapp) on the real state of risk in DeFi right now with @HarryGbc
Vibe coding vulnerabilities. State-sponsored attackers. Quantum readiness. Governance exploits.
Attackers only need to win once. Defenders have to win every time.
🎙️ Hardwired by @AlphaWireHQ : The State of Risk in DeFi
youtu.be/Vio7dXySyGU?si=cuMP…
Hyperchainlinkization at it again.
The @chainlink umbrella is spanning across all DeFi with no end in sight.
Caducus retweeted
Quantum FUD? It would be a shame if there was a company already prepared to help anyone with that:
verdict.finance/products/qua…
Caducus retweeted
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash.
Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase).
Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets.
IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster).
Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot.
Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time?
Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.)
Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once.
Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case.
I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026).
Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS.
Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security.
The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
Caducus retweeted
One thing we are seeing in project repos is docs bloat, tons of outdated markdown giving conflicting & stale info to auditors.
Do occasional docs cleanup especially before audit, archive the old stuff make it really easy for auditors to find relevant updated docs 🙏
Caducus retweeted
In 2008, issuers shopped around for the best rating, the agencies they paid delivered it, and we got the crash.
Verdict is building DeFi risk ratings that anyone can challenge. Anyone can access the grades for free.
We rate protocols, chains, tokens, oracles, vaults, organisations and bridges. Each rating is a card: the entity's profile and its answers to the risk questions behind the grade.
The data comes from feeds like @SPGlobal's stablecoin assessments, read on-chain through @chainlink, plus @DefiLlama, @coingecko, @immunefi and @dexscreener. Then @GenLayer validators, run by other people on other AI models, check each card's fields against their sources, re-score our judgement calls without seeing our scores, and flag anything that has gone stale.
Appeals are permissionless. Anyone can appeal a check, and each appeal goes to a bigger, fresh panel of validators that decides in public.
We find the evidence. @GenLayer judges it.
Risk in DeFi isnt isolated, its inherited, so we built a dependency graph to highlight this. Protocols integrating with @Verdict_Finance can see exactly where the risk sits and where the dependencies are.
xitter.cf/GenLayer/status/210567…
The internet never had a judge.
AI agents are about to move $9 trillion. Nobody built the part that handles disagreement.
GenLayer did.
And now you can become part of it: portal.genlayer.foundation/g…



























