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When the Arbitrum Security Council froze $71 million in funds tied to the KelpDAO hack, it was hailed as vigilante justice. Now lawyers representing families of North Korea’s victims are claiming that same money in a New York federal courtroom, as if theft transfers title.
Meanwhile, an AI agent running on Base got robbed via a prompt injection hidden in Morse code, and Coinbase cited artificial intelligence when announcing 14% layoffs.
Kain Warwick, Taylor Monahan, Luca Netz, and Kelsie Nabben, author of Decentralised Digital Security, work through what DeFi’s security layer actually is, who gets to decide when to act, and whether any of it survives the arrival of autonomous agents.
Hosts:
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- Kain Warwick – Founder of Infinex and Synthetix
- Taylor Monahan – Security Expert
- Luca Netz – CEO of Pudgy Penguins
Guest:
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- Kelsie Nabben – Research Fellow at RMIT University — Author of ‘Decentralized Digital Security: Code, Community, Crisis’ (2025)
