MP @ Arche Capital. prev: incubated @bittensor_, @polychain, tilt (acq. @airbnb), webmail (acq. @rackspace)

Joined April 2007
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Emilie Choi 🛡️
@emiliemcOct 23
There's lots of discussion about a16z dropping the word 'crypto'. It's actually a sign of crypto winning. It's outgrown being a standalone sector and now runs through global finance and frontier tech: payments, trading, tokenization, AiFi, and much more. We've spent more than a decade building this industry to make it useful everywhere, and we should welcome it escaping its own category. People used to say 'internet companies' - which is a prehistoric phrase now. Eventually, calling something a 'crypto company' should feel just as redundant. Many of us (including me) will keep the word. But the millions, and soon billions, using it every day won't care what we call it. They'll care what it lets them do.
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We’re excited to announce Alex Odagiu as CEO of BNB Standard (Nasdaq: BNC), effective today. Catch him in his first appearance as our CEO live on stage at @money2020 USA in Las Vegas at 11:00 a.m. PT, in a fireside chat with Remy Blaire of @FINTECHTVglobal. globenewswire.com/news-relea…
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bombshell report from the OCC out today confirming what we all suspected: between 2020 and 2025, based on a review of 100,000 complaints, America’s largest banks systematically denied banking to lawful businesses based on political and reputational considerations rather than objective financial risk, effectively appointing themselves arbiters of which industries deserved access to the financial system. digital assets was specifically named as one of the six most affected industries. TLDR: we weren't imagining it. OCP2.0 was real.
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NEW POD | BITCOIN NEWS EXCLUSIVE We sit down with the man who broke the Ledger supply chain attack wide open. Mark Karpelès (@MagicalTux), former CEO of Mt. Gox, and Zach Herbert, CEO of @FoundationHQ, join us to discuss the largest supply chain attack in crypto history. 🔸 Mark says he found the spy implant 3 weeks before the drain, tagged Ledger, and got no response 🔸 How a hidden cell modem read seed phrases straight off the screen and passed Ledger’s own check 🔸 Why a passphrase didn’t save you, and what actually would have 🔸 Mark says with $5M, he could build an implant you’d need an X-ray to find 🔸 Why the hardware wallet reseller model may be dead 🔸 What the future of self-custody looks like Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/-j9_EQuHEus 00:00 Ledger Supply Chain Attack Exposed 01:18 How Mark Discovered the Compromised Ledgers 04:29 $100 Million Stolen From Hardware Wallets 05:03 Opening the Ledger to Find the Implant 06:29 The SPI Implant That Reads Your Screen 09:56 How the Implant Steals Your Seed Phrase 13:51 The Hidden LTE Chip Phoning Home 17:00 The Timeline Behind the Attack Going Public 18:31 $86 Million Drained in 24 Hours 20:15 Did Ledger Know About This for Months? 24:00 The Malaysian Reseller Behind the Attack 26:56 How Hardware Wallet Companies Vet Resellers 30:21 Tracking the Stolen Crypto On-Chain 34:20 The Attack Spreads to Europe 36:05 Inside the Criminal Implant Supply Chain 39:10 Why Trezor Wasn't Targeted 42:08 Why Ledger Was the First Target 45:27 The Future of Hardware Wallet Security 50:20 Multi-Party Computation as the Fix 54:30 Making Self-Custody Easy for Newcomers 56:27 Why the Industry Must Professionalize 59:07 Staying Optimistic About Bitcoin's Future
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are: • Proprietary data • Network effects • A physical component
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🚨 If you don’t want to open up your Ledger just yet, here’s a list of hardware wallets and their weights: ⚖️ Hardware Wallet Weights Ledger • Nano X – 34 g • Nano S Plus – 21 g • Flex – 58 g • Stax – 44 g • Nano Gen5 – 46 g Trezor • Safe 7 – 45 g • Safe 5 – 23 g • Safe 3 – 14 g BitBox • BitBox02 – 12 g • BitBox02 Nova – 13 g OneKey • Classic 1S – 20.5 g • Pro – 65 g • Pro 2 – 53 g Blockstream • Jade Core – 20 g • Jade Plus – 30 g Keystone • 3 Pro – 103 g SafePal • S1 Pro – 126 g Coldcard • Q – 175 g NGRAVE • ZERO – 180 g ELLIPAL • Titan 2.0 – 158 g
⚠️ A serious warning following the @Ledger incident in Southeast Asia: We cannot rule out the possibility that other Ledger devices, or even hardware wallets from other manufacturers, may have been compromised elsewhere in the world. Buying directly from the manufacturer is certainly safer than buying from a reseller, but even that cannot guarantee 100% security. Supply chains can be infiltrated. Employees can be compromised, bribed or deliberately planted by attackers. There is currently no evidence of a worldwide compromise, but the incident demonstrates how dangerous supply-chain attacks can be. Never confuse a trusted brand with guaranteed security. Stay vigilant. Self-custody comes with responsibility. 🔐
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Right now the best near-term solution I can think of is active anti-tamper in hardware wallets (which we have in @FoundationHQ Passport Prime) and maybe more complete epoxy/potting solutions to completely encase the internals in a 3D-mesh. Longer term it would be great if a company could make a comprehensive display driver chip that allows for encryption, so that attackers cannot connect to the screen's ribbon cable and "see" what the screen is displaying. I am unaware of any chip that offers this today. Cc @tropicsquare might be a worthwhile endeavor.
This looks like this could be exactly what I'm investigating. Anyone affected, please contact me or open your ledger and send me pictures so we can confirm if there's a bug in there (pictures: ledger board on top, spy implant below). xitter.cf/Ledger_Support/status/…
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Doomerism has now hit cryptography... Unfortunately, on reflection, I think this is a very sober call. No reason to be taking unnecessary risk with all of the rapid progress happening in mathematics. The risk is not quantum, but just conventional mathematics overturning unproven cryptographic hardness assumptions. It's UTXO-mode for a while.
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.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
When you look back, you’ll wish you’d just done the long-term version of everything.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Starting on Sep. 30 at 12:00 UTC, $FWDIB will be tradable on @binance exchange. Please reference Binance's announcement linked below for information on availability, restrictions, and other details.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Most AI tools live in their own tab. You go there, get your answer, and bring it back to your team. Kohai lives in the same workspace as your team. Same context. Same goals. You set the direction, your Kohais execute, and your team reviews and refines. Work is multiplayer. AI should be too. 👇 kohai.co
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Solid Intel 📡
@solidintel_xSep 24
INTEL: KYC should collect less personal data and use zero-knowledge proofs to verify compliance without revealing names, income or addresses, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
The race for AGI Script: Sherpa by Pocket FM Video: Seedance 2.5
🤖 Made with AI
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
TPN Bench update We started reaching out to devs, labs, and teams about TPN Bench, and the response in the past 5 days has been 200+ people asking when they can run their models. @huggingface recently crossed 3M models, and around 3000 new ones are uploaded every day. We're pulling data from every publisher daily, and about 99.5% of them publish models with no benchmarks on the model card, that's thousands of models a day that nobody has measured. Every upload without a score represents a potential TPN Bench user, and we'll keep reaching out.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
Switch to open source. It's time for a new foundation. 09.15 | 10AM ET foundation.xyz/switch
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
WHAT THE BIDEN CREW DID to Silvergate was wrong. And **nothing** has been done to change the levers pulled by the Biden crew to assassinate a liquid, solvent bank it didn't like. The GOP had the chance to fix it but didn't. Sadly, this abuse of power will happen again...
Important retrospective from former Silvergate CEO Alan Lane on the liquidation of the bank silvergateceo.substack.com/p…
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
What the TV does by design: — scans your entire home network continuously. in their test: one TV identified 38 unrelated devices including phones, smartwatches, printers, and thermostats belonging to people not involved in the test. — collects the names and signal strengths of every nearby WiFi network, plus location data. all sent to LG Ad Solutions. — runs ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) on everything displayed on screen. including HDMI inputs. your laptop, gaming console, or work monitor connected to the TV is being fingerprinted. — one TV exchanged roughly 4GB of ACR-related data per month. What the TV does that LG says it doesn't: LG publicly stated their TVs "do not collect, record, or store ambient conversations." Gamers Nexus found: — the TV converts speech to plain text and stores it in on-device logs — the microphone window stays open 10 to 15 seconds after talking stops, capturing bystanders who never addressed the TV — the TV recorded room audio while the screen appeared off and the Ethernet cable was unplugged, then exfiltrated the file the moment it reconnected The security vulnerabilities on top: Beyond the designed behavior, researchers found remote code execution vulnerabilities in webOS that could allow a compromised TV to be weaponized as a covert listening device. these sets are in hospitals. waiting rooms. boardrooms. hotels. a surgeon asked Gamers Nexus where that leaves patient confidentiality. Gamers Nexus has no answer. neither does LG. What to do right now: — disconnect your LG TV from your network entirely. route streaming through an Apple TV, Roku, or Fire Stick instead. — if you must keep it connected: put it on a separate IoT VLAN or guest network so it cannot reach your other devices. — disable the built-in microphone in settings. — check your privacy dashboard and opt out of ACR and ad personalization. — after every firmware update: recheck all of the above. Credit to Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and other independent researchers.
Your LG Smart TV might be more interested in what’s happening in your living room than you are: Researchers found tested LG TVs scanning local devices, capturing microphone audio in standby, and storing data until they reconnect to the internet.
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Will Wolf ✌🏻 🚀 retweeted
The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th. That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days. Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.
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