Gavin Birch 🏴

if you have the power to censor, you WILL eventually be strong-armed into censoring no one is immune you need to believe this in your bones, usually from bad experiences directly had or personally witnessed, to gain conviction in permissionless system design...

ok so looks like the largest crypto hack of all time, here's where we're at: Stolen: • ~$5.57B across Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Tron: ~$3.51B ETH, ~$1.44B BTC, ~$630M Tron. Frozen: • ~$2.39B in stablecoins: ~$1.567B USDT, ~$823M USDC • Aave froze V3 and V4 on eth mainnet, precautionary but prevents the attacker from causing bad debt with illicit funds leaves residual exposure at ~$2.6–$3.2B, beating out Feb 2025's $1.5B Bybit hack for the largest crypto heist of all time.

Thank you to everyone who backed Armada and gave us feedback. We forecast the crowdfund to finish at ~850k USDC, below our 1M minimum. Rather than move the threshold or force the final amount through, we have decided to let the crowdfund close as designed. The invite-only structure, whitelisting, and ticket-size caps made participation harder than intended, and we’ve learned a lot from that. All contributors will be able to reclaim 100% of their USDC through the contract when the crowdfund closes at 6pm UTC on 29th October. Armada will continue, and we have not stopped working on our shielded pool. We’re evaluating other ways to fund Armada that preserve the principles behind the crowdfund while making participation easier. Our original backers will be our priority as we plan what comes next!

The Book of Ethereum × @ship_armada Armada is committing 10,000 $ARM to the BOOE treasury. ARM holders govern Armada's treasury and fee policy - now BOOE has a seat at the table. Join us Friday to discuss Armada, Ethereum, and onchain privacy. 🗓 Oct 23 | 8am ET teapawt.net/i/spaces/1nxnRBDLZXLxO

ETHCluj is about people. The ones who show up for themselves and for everyone else. The ones who build collaboratively and keep going, even when things get hard. The ones who believe that what we build togETHer matters more than what we build alone. Next May, we meet again 🌿 Cluj-Napoca, Romania May 12-13, 2027 Mark your calendars 💜

An urgent notice from the Railway team blog.railway.com/p/security-…

Our crowdfund has reached $417k from 69 participants! We’re well on our way to hitting our $1M target before it closes on 29th October. If we don't hit it, every commitment is returned in full. Need an invite? DM us. Have one? Commit USDC at fund.armada.blue

Tomorrow at 16:00 UTC, @Ether_Gavin joins @ProtocolGuild to talk through Armada's design, making cypherpunk normal, and to answer your questions. Set a reminder: teapawt.net/i/spaces/1XxygwDnODWGM…

Tomorrow at 16:00 UTC, @Ether_Gavin joins @ProtocolGuild to talk through Armada's design, making cypherpunk normal, and to answer your questions. Set a reminder: teapawt.net/i/spaces/1XxygwDnODWGM…

A privacy protocol might have thousands of users, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're blending in with all of them. What matters is how many users your activity could realistically be confused with, and it's not just about what happens onchain, the metadata you leave behind matters too. Explore the anonymity sets and best practices on L2BEAT 👇 l2beat.com/privacy/summary