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🔥 Top Stories 1. Startup founders are cashing out early as VCs embrace secondary sales—Mesh’s $20M and Farcaster’s $15M founder payouts highlight a growing trend of “taking some off the table” before exits. Source: view.mail.fortune 🏷️ VCs 2. A U.S. appeals court ruled the FBI isn’
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Lista DAO flags mounting risks in MEVCapital’s USDT Vault and Re7Labs’ USD1 Vault as collateral faces soaring borrowing rates and no repayments, urging both projects to act immediately Source: 𝕏/@lista_dao 🏷️ $USDT • USD1 • Vaults 2. The Privacy Manifesto Source: 𝕏/@Zac_Aztec 🏷️ Privacy • L2 • ZK Anyone with
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Ongoing attacker quietly drains multiple lending protocols over the past month, with projects remaining silent on undisclosed exploits. Source: 𝕏/@specteranalyst 🏷️ Lending 2. Zohran Mamdani secures win to become NYC mayor defeating Cuomo who recently pledged crypto innovation. Source: The Block 🏷️ NYC this was honestly such fun to
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🔥 Top Stories 1. ⚠️Suspected oracle exploit hits MoonwellDeFi on Base and Optimism — attackers manipulated the rsETH/ETH price feed, draining over $1M in what appears to be a MEV-driven attack. Source: 𝕏/@Phalcon_xyz 🏷️ $ETH • Base Chain • $rsETH Defi is getting summarily assaulted right now @HappyPsyduck 2. OpenZeppelin, Trail of Bits,
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Phalcon identifies the root cause of the Balancer hack, now up to 120M drained Source: 𝕏/@phalcon_xyz 🏷️ Hacks • Balancer 2. DEXes volumes hit another all-time high with $613.3 billion during October 2025 (19.84% of CEXes volume) Source: Defillama 🏷️ Sweet! Wen DEXes takeover CEXes?!💪 @Petcel 3.
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire calls Arc “an economic OS for the internet,” highlighting its dollar-based fees, sub-second finality, and enterprise privacy features as USDC adoption surges across emerging markets ahead of Arc’s 2026 mainnet launch. Source: Coindesk 🏷️ $USDC • Circle • Privacy 2. According to coinglass analysis; a
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Sequoia and a16z fuel $3.9B crypto funding wave in October, pouring capital into projects like Stripe’s Tempo and Polymarket as venture appetite defies market turmoil. Source: DL News 🏷️ Polymarket • a16z • Stripe 2. Leviathan Livestream: Halloween DeFi Costume Llama Party Source: Youtube 🏷️ stream • Leviathan • Llama Party
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🔥 Top Stories 1. f(x) Protocol launches fxMINT, a way to mint fxUSD while keeping your BTC/ETH exposure, by only paying a one-time open/close fee on the borrowed fxUSD Source: 𝕏/@protocol_fx 🏷️ $BTC • $ETH • $fxUSD Good one, at least I get to keep my exposure @Hades 2. JP
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🔥 Top Stories 1. JPMorgan tokenizes a private-equity fund on its own blockchain in a landmark move to bring alternative investments onchain and mark the first step toward a broader rollout of its fund tokenization platform. Source: WSJ 🏷️ Tokenomics • Tokenization • Onchain 2. Building an Automated YearnV3 Vault Trading Agent with x402
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🔥 Top Stories 1. AI’s corporate reckoning deepens as Amazon, Target, and UPS slash tens of thousands of white-collar jobs, signaling a seismic shift in office work and leaving displaced employees facing a shrinking job market.** Source: archive.ph 🏷️ AI • Slash • Jobs 2. MetaMask launches Rewards Season 1, offering over
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Metaplanet Launches $500M Share Buyback to Boost Capital Efficiency and Reverse mNAV Decline Source: 𝕏/@Metaplanet_JP 🏷️ Metaplanet • Buybacks • mNAV 2. Nevada Shuts Down Fortress After $11M Shortfall, Sparking Outrage Over Regulator Oversight Source: DL News 🏷️ 3. Posts are claiming that a ChatGPT generated AI Passport passed KYC
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🔥 Top Stories 1. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that blockchain security only protects on-chain assets, cautioning that off-chain trust in validators exposes users to collusion and manipulation beyond cryptographic safeguards. Source: Cryptonews 🏷️ Ethereum • Vitalik Buterin • Manipulation Isn't this the whole issue with proof of stak @HappyPsyduck 2. AI-driven