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Attackers took $388 million from Bitget without ever getting its private keys. Opsek founder Pablo Sabbatella explains that the way in was a zero-day in a third-party security product the exchange relied on.

Sabbatella, who now sits on Arbitrum’s Security Council, joins Kain Warwick, Taylor Monahan, and Austin Griffith to trace the hack. Monahan attributes it to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group and flags how fast the funds left Arbitrum, while the hosts ask why THORChain, which has halted its chain and reallocated balances before, still handles stolen funds.

They also cover NEAR’s SHIELD anomaly detection, reports of rogue AI agents hacking outside systems, whether retail should get the upside of a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO, and Vitalik Buterin’s 2030 roadmap for Ethereum.

Warwick’s case: the harder the problem, the more superintelligence helps, and Ethereum is one of the hardest problems there is.

Hosts:

    • Kain Warwick, Host of Uneasy Money and Founder of Infinex and Synthetix
    • Taylor Monahan, Co-host of Uneasy Money and Security Expert
    • Austin Griffith – Co-host of Uneasy Money and Builder Enablement at Ethereum Foundation

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