Good now revolutionaries—

Will is back from Mexico and the timing could not have been worse for DeFi. Over the weekend, KelpDAO was exploited for ~$293 million via a Layer Zero bridge — the attacker fraudulently minted RSE, parked it on Aave as collateral, and borrowed out legitimate dollars in roughly an hour. It's the biggest DeFi hack of 2026 so far, and Layer Zero is pointing directly at North Korea's Lazarus Group / "Trader Traitor." Aave froze RSE on V3 and V4, but not before the contagion kicked in: Aave saw ~$6.2B move out (~23% of locked capital), Morpho lost almost a billion in net outflows, Jupiter and Sky Protocol bled too.

Also on the show: Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire pushing back on protocol-level kill switches; Alex making the case that these aren't hacks at all — they're bridge exploits cascading into protocols that weren't built to absorb them; the Vercel / Shiny Hunters breach where $500K in Bitcoin is the asking price for Next.js supply-chain access; Bitcoin's top-heavy-but-grassroots case; and the White Whale's return post — plus the pump.fun copycat that tagged Evan within minutes. Evan closes with the sharp one: don't buy creator coins. Ever.

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Good now revolutionaries—

Quigley is back, and we spent 90 minutes on the two themes everyone in crypto should be obsessing over right now: quantum risk and the endless creativity of social-engineering attackers. We start with the pump-and-dump clinic of the week — Allbirds, a failing shoe company whose stock ripped 400–600% after announcing a pivot to "GPU-on-demand AI" — and trace the lineage back through Kodak, Long Blockchain, and Atari. Same playbook every time, still legal, still heartbreaking for retail.

Then Quigley unpacks BIP-361, the quantum-resistant Bitcoin proposal from Jameson Lopp that would freeze vulnerable addresses in phases. Google's new paper pulled the "cryptographically relevant quantum computer" timeline in to roughly 2030 — about nine minutes to derive a private key from an exposed public key. It's important but not urgent, and the fix is less exotic than it sounds: stop taking the convenience shortcuts (Taproot, reused addresses, public-key-exposing spends) that quantum exploits.

The second half is the Quigley School of Paranoia: $450M in protocol losses year-to-date, most of it social engineering, not software. The $280M Drift hack came from DPRK operatives who funded a fake quant firm and spent six months building rapport at Solana conferences. The fix is friction — keep accounting off LinkedIn, whitelist your wires, voice-verify every new instruction, isolate your financial device, and ditch SMS 2FA for an authenticator app. "You don't need to outrun the bear. You need to outrun the guy running from the bear with you."

Plus: IONQ's photonic interconnect of two trapped-ion systems at 99.99% fidelity, the Bitcoin Talk forum puzzle at privatekeys.pw, the Genius Act quietly not defining stablecoins as needing a blockchain, and Quigley's pitch for a pencil-and-paper blockchain workshop at Consensus Miami.

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Good now revolutionaries — it's World Liberty Financial week, whether we like it or not. Evan and Alex break down the new 62.3-billion-token unlock proposal, the absurd 1% governance quorum, and why Justin Sun is now publicly accusing the team of a "hidden blacklisting function" and threatening court over it.

Then the stablecoin question: USD-1 is backed one-to-one with US treasuries — technically. Most of it lives in three Binance wallets. We walked the Arkham dashboard live. And if it collapses, what happens to your redemption? Alex called it: "USD-1 is the Trump Bible of stablecoins." That bit stays in.

Plus a real-world scam PSA roundup: G-Love (yes, "My Baby's Got Sauce" G-Love) lost 5.9 BTC to a malicious Ledger app in the Apple App Store. Evan got a physical-mail Trezor scam letter with a QR code. A new "T7X Trusted Smart Chain" pops up reading straight from the MLM playbook. We tell you how to spot it.

And the big-beef RWA segment: a viewer challenges Evan to compare MetalX Lending vs Aave, and he does — live, on DeFi Llama. The result is not close. Aave's active loans: $18.28B. MetalX: $10.8M. The takeaway holds for the rest of crypto too: liquidity begets liquidity, and that's why serious institutions build on Ethereum + Aave.

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