Single verifier setups create significant centralization risks
βI do agree that the default setup that's out of the box for people to use is probably not great, and I think it's something like 40 percent of people do tend to use that setup. So they're saying it's mainly the fault of KelpDow for not modifying that and going further. But I think there's some truth in that. Obviously, there's 60 percent of people, including Euler and all these other projects, that decided to use more DVNs.β
Redundancy is essential to defend against nation-state attacks
βIf we're saying it's nation state actors with their tremendous resources against individual protocols, the protocols will lose with certainty. However, you can still flip that security framework on its head if we make it a chain of things that have to fail with a redundant response across the ecosystem. Because the Lazarus Group, breaking a single protocol is relatively easy, but breaking eight protocols simultaneously, all of which work differently, becomes so complex.β
βAnd now seeing oil put in moves like this, you really got a question. Is everything okay? Can we stay asleep and the powers that be are going to keep, you know, everything running smoothly in a globalist economy? Look at this. This looks like a nightmare to me.β
Preferred stock provides transparent yield versus private credit
βThe two problems with private credit are illiquidity and lack of transparency. Stretch is liquid and transparent. And so I think you're going to see people typically look at preferred stocks and they're like, well, it's this tiny bit of the market and like the TAM is not really going to grow. But I think it's going to grow massively because you're going to see this huge wave of capital moving out of private credit.β
Kelp DAO exploit linked to North Korean Lazarus Group
βI mean, changing the binaries, managing to carry out a DDoS at just the right time and being able to then trick the RPC nodes into essentially providing a view of the world. It's all quite sophisticated and clearly, I think it looks like a nation state level, so I think the Lazarus attribution is probably correct.β
Redundancy is essential to defend against nation-state attacks
βIf we're saying it's nation state actors with their tremendous resources against individual protocols, the protocols will lose with certainty. However, you can still flip that security framework on its head if we make it a chain of things that have to fail with a redundant response across the ecosystem. Because the Lazarus Group, breaking a single protocol is relatively easy, but breaking eight protocols simultaneously, all of which work differently, becomes so complex.β
βDividend day dumps every single time. Look at that gap low. This is going to be Tuesday evening. This is going to be the Wednesday morning pre-market. I am a buyer. If we can come into this trend line, I don't think I hold for the dividend, Drew. I think I just sell when it hits par again, when it hits 100.β
Apyx launches stablecoin backed by MicroStrategy preferred stock
βMicro strategies, STRC or stretch instrument as they call it is the most traded, most liquid and largest preferred stock ever in history. Preferred stocks are kind of a somewhat niche area of the market. But interestingly, and many people don't know this, stretch's IPO was actually the largest IPO of 2025, full stop. Larger than circle, larger than any other asset IPO. It has really been catching on now.β
Kevin Warsh discloses extensive personal crypto holdings
βWe're going to expose the Fed official's portfolio. I'm talking about Kevin Warsh. This is the replacement for Jerome Powell. He just posted his holdings, an extensive list of holdings last night, and not everybody's catching all the altcoins on this list. You really got to dig, and we did the digging.β
Yield-bearing stablecoins grow 15x faster than traditional ones
βJPMorgan Research has pointed out that yield-bearing stables are growing significantly faster than traditional stables. I would call it 15X faster right now, though. Noting for everybody, coming off a small denominator is much easier than coming off a large denominator. 15X size from current non-yield-bearing stable coins would be a giant amount of money.β
Yield-bearing stablecoins grow 15x faster than traditional ones
βJPMorgan Research has pointed out that yield-bearing stables are growing significantly faster than traditional stables. I would call it 15X faster right now, though. Noting for everybody, coming off a small denominator is much easier than coming off a large denominator. 15X size from current non-yield-bearing stable coins would be a giant amount of money.β
βAI is a great tool, but it's an arms race, right? It can be used by the good guys and the bad guys. I do think teams need to be using it much more than they could auditing end-to-end, absolutely everything, using AI, and getting their hands on the best possible tools. I think you see a lot of security firms are working to bring these tools out now, and increasingly teams are using this, but it's also in the hands of the bad guys, and they're very, very effective operators.β
Apyx launches stablecoin backed by MicroStrategy preferred stock
βMicro strategies, STRC or stretch instrument as they call it is the most traded, most liquid and largest preferred stock ever in history. Preferred stocks are kind of a somewhat niche area of the market. But interestingly, and many people don't know this, stretch's IPO was actually the largest IPO of 2025, full stop. Larger than circle, larger than any other asset IPO. It has really been catching on now.β
Preferred stock provides transparent yield versus private credit
βThe two problems with private credit are illiquidity and lack of transparency. Stretch is liquid and transparent. And so I think you're going to see people typically look at preferred stocks and they're like, well, it's this tiny bit of the market and like the TAM is not really going to grow. But I think it's going to grow massively because you're going to see this huge wave of capital moving out of private credit.β
Kelp DAO exploit linked to North Korean Lazarus Group
βI mean, changing the binaries, managing to carry out a DDoS at just the right time and being able to then trick the RPC nodes into essentially providing a view of the world. It's all quite sophisticated and clearly, I think it looks like a nation state level, so I think the Lazarus attribution is probably correct.β
Single verifier setups create significant centralization risks
βI do agree that the default setup that's out of the box for people to use is probably not great, and I think it's something like 40 percent of people do tend to use that setup. So they're saying it's mainly the fault of KelpDow for not modifying that and going further. But I think there's some truth in that. Obviously, there's 60 percent of people, including Euler and all these other projects, that decided to use more DVNs.β
Hyperliquid is targeting a breakout toward fifty dollars
βSpeaking of looking at the charts, hype, starting to try to break out of this range here. You can see it's taken us a few days. We can break out of here. I think a pretty good shot to $50 is in charge.β
DeFi security assumptions require a fundamental overhaul
βThe belief that transactions are, call it optimistically correct, has to be discarded in this environment. You're clearly getting enough hacks that all large transactions should probably be viewed with some degree of skepticism. And I don't know if that means delays with drawing for protocols, choke points on bridges, needing significantly larger shares of votes to move assets.β
DeFi security assumptions require a fundamental overhaul
βThe belief that transactions are, call it optimistically correct, has to be discarded in this environment. You're clearly getting enough hacks that all large transactions should probably be viewed with some degree of skepticism. And I don't know if that means delays with drawing for protocols, choke points on bridges, needing significantly larger shares of votes to move assets.β
βAI is a great tool, but it's an arms race, right? It can be used by the good guys and the bad guys. I do think teams need to be using it much more than they could auditing end-to-end, absolutely everything, using AI, and getting their hands on the best possible tools. I think you see a lot of security firms are working to bring these tools out now, and increasingly teams are using this, but it's also in the hands of the bad guys, and they're very, very effective operators.β
βThis is going to be one of the first major resistance zones for Ethereum in the 2021 run up. Very, very strong level. This is going to be a major hurdle for Ethereum. And if you zoom into the chart, Drew, we're having a little bit of an issue trying to get past... this is looking dicey for Ethereum.β