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LIVE NOW - The $280 Million DeFi Exploit That Changes Crypto Forever A $280 Million DeFi exploit exposed the hidden fragility of crypto’s most trusted systems. Dan Elitzer and Odysseus | phylax.systems break down: - how the attack happened, - why bridge risk and protocol composability made the damage...

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@delitzer @odysseas_eth

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Marcus | Macro Strategist5 months ago

@delitzer @odysseas_eth Exploits happen. This is why self custody and solid infra matters. Not rocket science.

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Bankless5 months ago

Listen ad-free here👇

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Hittolene5 months ago

@delitzer @odysseas_eth PoSA model + delegation rewards make CROSS Staking attractive. ~180% APR today and Mainnet 2.0 "Breakpoint" upgrade ahead. Nice yield play. #CROSSStaking

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hira5 months ago

@delitzer @odysseas_eth code is law until it breaks then we adapt and build stronger

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@delitzer @odysseas_eth

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@delitzer @odysseas_eth Everything you are talking about is already on Cardano but refuse to acknowledge it.

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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 💸 Financing The AI Boom: How DeFi Is Filling A Trillion-Dollar Gap 0:00 - Intro 1:45 - Founders background 5:52 - The more you know, the less money you make 8:51 - The AI infrastructure financing gap 15:22 - What is structured credit? 19:33 - How USDai GPU-backed loans work 24:54 - Addressing Pine Analytics critique 34:13 - Why AI infra borrowers use crypto rails 36:00 - Real-time GPU monitoring 36:51 - “Mercenary capital” vs common sense capital 39:14 - Why launch the token before full PMF? 42:34 - Are USDai borrowers riskier to lend to? 45:26 - How USDai tokenizes GPUs 50:58 - Managing GPU depreciation risk 53:28 - What keeps the founders up at night 54:05 - USDai vs. sUSDai, a two-token model 58:25 - The CHIP governance token 59:10 - What’s next: Road to $1B in loans 1:00:21 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to David | www.usd.ai and Conor Moore for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

26,574 views • 7 months ago

🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 💥 How Royco Risk Tranching Is Working Through Its First Real World Stress Test | DeFi Frontier 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - A DeFi risk tranching protocol 6:01 - Why RWAs are the future of yield 11:32 - What is Royco Dawn? 13:30 - The perfect asset to tranche 18:07 - Screenshare Royco live markets 22:01 - Observation period, first stress test 25:05 - How seniors stay protected 27:00 - What could end the observation period? 30:04 - How Royco tries to restore markets 31:25 - Estimating losses after 21-day period 33:40 - Design for juniors to not be wiped out 37:40 - Tranching vs insurance 41:23 - Is security in DeFi cooked? 43:49 - Opting for delayed settlement 47:54 - Royco Dusk preview 53:42 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Royco Founder Jai Bhavnani for joining us!
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🎙️ New The Edge Podcast 💥 How Royco Risk Tranching Is Working Through Its First Real World Stress Test | DeFi Frontier 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - A DeFi risk tranching protocol 6:01 - Why RWAs are the future of yield 11:32 - What is Royco Dawn? 13:30 - The perfect asset to tranche 18:07 - Screenshare Royco live markets 22:01 - Observation period, first stress test 25:05 - How seniors stay protected 27:00 - What could end the observation period? 30:04 - How Royco tries to restore markets 31:25 - Estimating losses after 21-day period 33:40 - Design for juniors to not be wiped out 37:40 - Tranching vs insurance 41:23 - Is security in DeFi cooked? 43:49 - Opting for delayed settlement 47:54 - Royco Dusk preview 53:42 - Closing 🙏 Thanks to Royco Founder Jai Bhavnani for joining us!

DeFi Dad ⟠ defidad.eth

39,601 views • 2 months ago

LIVE NOW - Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' Zcash 🛡️ founder zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ joins Bankless to argue that privacy is back on the critical path, that AI turns chain surveillance into pattern-recognition at scale and that the real bottleneck for cypherpunk tools has always been UX and onboarding. We dig into Zcash’s “encrypted Bitcoin” meme, the dev fund’s evolving design (and why it helped Zcash survive), recent ZEC momentum, and the wallet/intents stack that makes private spending actually usable. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:46 What Failed 3:58 What Succeeded 5:04 Institutional Adoption 6:53 Areas Neglected 10:51 The Cypherpunk Vision 18:53 Can The Cypherpunks Win? 23:19 Crypto’s Path to Success 27:44 Crypto vs Linux 30:39 AI Cypherpunks? 33:05 Optimism 35:49 AI Surveillance 37:10 Zcash 43:02 Zcash Dev Fund 51:45 Zashi is now Zodl Governance Drama 56:32 Zcash Privacy Practices 1:15:56 AI Privacy Consequences 1:22:31 Is Zec a Store of Value 1:26:01 Encrypted Bitcoin? 1:29:01 Ethereum Privacy & Anoma 1:33:14 Closing & Disclaimers
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LIVE NOW - Zcash Founder on Privacy, AI, and How ZEC is 'Encrypted Bitcoin' Zcash 🛡️ founder zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ joins Bankless to argue that privacy is back on the critical path, that AI turns chain surveillance into pattern-recognition at scale and that the real bottleneck for cypherpunk tools has always been UX and onboarding. We dig into Zcash’s “encrypted Bitcoin” meme, the dev fund’s evolving design (and why it helped Zcash survive), recent ZEC momentum, and the wallet/intents stack that makes private spending actually usable. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:46 What Failed 3:58 What Succeeded 5:04 Institutional Adoption 6:53 Areas Neglected 10:51 The Cypherpunk Vision 18:53 Can The Cypherpunks Win? 23:19 Crypto’s Path to Success 27:44 Crypto vs Linux 30:39 AI Cypherpunks? 33:05 Optimism 35:49 AI Surveillance 37:10 Zcash 43:02 Zcash Dev Fund 51:45 Zashi is now Zodl Governance Drama 56:32 Zcash Privacy Practices 1:15:56 AI Privacy Consequences 1:22:31 Is Zec a Store of Value 1:26:01 Encrypted Bitcoin? 1:29:01 Ethereum Privacy & Anoma 1:33:14 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

60,682 views • 8 months ago

LIVE NOW - The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever Ethereum is transparent by design, and that’s a problem if you don’t want your entire financial life on display. Rand , co-founder of Zama, joins us to explain how fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can turn Ethereum into an encrypted, confidential blockchain where contracts stay composable and UX feels exactly the same. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:24 Why Are Blockchains Public? 9:11 Privacy vs Confidentiality 11:13 Zama: Privacy on Ethereum 15:05 Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) 19:34 Multi-Party Computation (MPC) 23:50 FHE vs ZK 37:25 FHE Critiques 40:08 Nation State Attacks 45:58 Combining ZK & FHE 49:20 Privacy Season 51:39 Compliance 1:00:18 Zama 1:04:03 Confidential Tokens 1:08:12 How it Works 1:11:30 Zama Token & Protocol 1:14:09 Privacy Competitors 1:17:36 Fhenix 1:19:46 Rand’s Background 1:23:07 AI Privacy 1:26:42 Longevity 1:33:01 Crypto & Privacy in 2026 1:33:33 Closing & Disclaimers
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LIVE NOW - The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever Ethereum is transparent by design, and that’s a problem if you don’t want your entire financial life on display. Rand , co-founder of Zama, joins us to explain how fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) can turn Ethereum into an encrypted, confidential blockchain where contracts stay composable and UX feels exactly the same. -------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:24 Why Are Blockchains Public? 9:11 Privacy vs Confidentiality 11:13 Zama: Privacy on Ethereum 15:05 Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) 19:34 Multi-Party Computation (MPC) 23:50 FHE vs ZK 37:25 FHE Critiques 40:08 Nation State Attacks 45:58 Combining ZK & FHE 49:20 Privacy Season 51:39 Compliance 1:00:18 Zama 1:04:03 Confidential Tokens 1:08:12 How it Works 1:11:30 Zama Token & Protocol 1:14:09 Privacy Competitors 1:17:36 Fhenix 1:19:46 Rand’s Background 1:23:07 AI Privacy 1:26:42 Longevity 1:33:01 Crypto & Privacy in 2026 1:33:33 Closing & Disclaimers

Bankless

121,302 views • 9 months ago