Full-stack stablecoin infrastructure demands full-stack security. We partnered with @1MoneyNetwork to independently assess critical protocol and application layers of its stablecoin infrastructure. Case study ⬇️

Let’s talk about recent hacks! x.com/i/spaces/1vJpPPBPBQoJE

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece. Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU. Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service. So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships. Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open. The EU rejected it. Magnificent. Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent. Excellent. This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing. Estimated time to ship: 2047. Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states. Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response. Worth it. In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all. Not a bug. The intended outcome. Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision. 🇪🇺

Hacken is now an ecosystem auditing provider for @CantonNetwork, a privacy-enabled blockchain built for institutional finance. We will support financial institutions, tokenized asset issuers, payment providers, and ecosystem builders with specialized security reviews.

In Daml, access control is defined at the contract level, not applied on top. A detailed breakdown from @HackenClub of every core security pattern, how the mechanics work, where the risks are, and what to verify before mainnet. Full analysis: hacken.io/discover/daml-desi…

Rust/Soroban smart contract audits are part of what we do at Hacken. We assessed @ROZOai, a @StellarOrg Community Fund-backed project building non-custodial stablecoin payment infrastructure across Stellar, Base, and other chains 🧵👇

Looking forward to secure the Japanese blockchain industry with @PacificMeta! Thank you Andy & his fantastic team for all the hard work put into this partnership. 🛡️🇯🇵🛡️

So glad to hear both @alexmarquez73 & @JohannZarco1 are not in critical condition after yesterdays awful crashes at Montmelo. Wishing you both a speedy recovery!

Proud to be part of this one. The Bermuda Monetary Authority just deployed Embedded Supervision, compliance enforced at the transaction layer, not reviewed after. Built together with @chainlink, @ApexGlobalGroup, @blupryntco, and Hacken.

Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics: * Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic warzone, AI and how it interplays with all of the above... * The brute reality that Ethereum seems to be absent from meaningfully improving the lives of people subject to these things, even on the dimensions we deeply care about (eg. freedom, privacy, security of digital life, community self-organization) It is easy to bond over the first, to commiserate over the fact that beauty and good in the world seems to be receding and darkness advancing, and uncaring powerful people in high places are making this happen. But ultimately, it is easy to acknowledge problems, the hard thing is actually shining a light forward, coming up with a concrete plan that makes the situation better. The second has been weighing heavily on my mind, and on the minds of many of our brightest and most idealistic Ethereans. I personally never felt any upset or fear when political memecoins went on Solana, or various zero-sum gambling applications go on whatever 250 millisecond block chain strikes their fancy. But it *does* weigh on me that, through all of the various low-grade online memetic wars, international overreaches of corporate and government power, and other issues of the last few years, Ethereum has been playing a very limited role in making people's lives better. What *are* the liberating technologies? Starlink is the most obvious one. Locally-running open-weights LLMs are another. Signal is a third. Community Notes is a fourth, tackling the problem from a different angle. One response is to say "stop dreaming big, we need to hunker down and accept that finance is our lane and laser-focus on that". But this is ultimately hollow. Financial freedom and security is critical. But it seems obvious that, while adding a perfectly free and open and sovereign and debasement-proof financial system would fix some things, but it would leave the bulk of our deep worries about the world unaddressed. It's okay for individuals to laser-focus on finance, but we need to be part of some greater whole that has things to say about the other problems too. At the same time, Ethereum cannot fix the world. Ethereum is the "wrong-shaped tool" for that: beyond a certain point, "fixing the world" implies a form of power projection that is more like a centralized political entity than like a decentralized technology community. So what can we do? I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technologies": free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures. The goal is not to remake the world in Ethereum's image, where all finance is disintermediated, all governance happens through DAOs, and everyone gets a blockchain-based UBI delivered straight to their social-recovery wallet. The goal is the opposite: it's de-totalization. It's to reduce the stakes of the war in heaven by preventing the winner from having total victory (ie. total control over other human beings), and preventing the loser from suffering total defeat. To create digital islands of stability in a chaotic era. To enable interdependence that cannot be weaponized. Ethereum's role is to create "digital space" where different entities can cooperate and interact. Communications channels enable interaction, but communication channels are not "space": they do not let you create single unique objects that canonically represent some social arrangement that changes over time. Money is one important example. Multisigs that can change their members, showing persistence exceeding that of any one person or one public key, are another. Various market and governance structures are a third. There are more. I think now is the time to double down, with greater clarity. Do not try to be Apple or Google, seeing crypto as a tech sector that enables efficiency or shininess. Instead, build our part of the sanctuary tech ecosystem - the "shared digital space with no owner" that enables both open finance and much more. More actively build toward a full-stack ecosystem: both upward to the wallet and application layer (incl AI as interface) and downward to the OS, hardware, even physical/bio security levels. Ultimately, tech is worthless without users. But look for users, both individual and institutional, for whom sanctuary tech is exactly the thing they need. Optimize payments, defi, decentralized social, and other applications precisely for those users, and those goals, which centralized tech will not serve. We have many allies, including many outside of "crypto". It's time we work together with an open mind and move forward.

Great space from last night with @Rexhooks!

One of our best AI Security Researchers at @hackenclub is live now with a session on AI Agent Security: youtube.com/watch?v=H84hokZF…

Live now with @Rexhooks! x.com/i/spaces/1qJDzPBaDlQKV

Looking forward to join this awesome team in 10mins!