An account can be funded with Bitcoin and used to pay a $20 monthly subscription. The merchant receives USDC — with full privacy via confidential intents The rails are being built

Not widely mentioned yet NEAR Intents also enable subscription payments from any asset

Privacy + Liquidity + AI Keep it simple

Only needs on/off ramps and a mobile app to remove the need for a CEX

Infinex is exactly the wallet many have dreamed of; it's unclear why adoption isn't higher No hardware wallet required. Seamless across devices. Transactions execute successfully on the first try

Chains and wallets are infrastructure that get in the way; users shouldn't have to care about them at all

Infinex is the clearest real-world example of NEAR Smart Accounts Access via passkey or email, and fund an account from any asset on any chain while retaining full self-custody

Lazarus operate as professional, state-backed actors that specialize in this activity Defenses must be treated like a full-time job, because attackers do this full-time

Build more secure, more decentralized technology, and confront the hard questions honestly No security sprint in the past year should be treated as a warning

It must be assumed a highly resourced adversary will eventually have access to the most advanced models running 24/7 to exploit systems, plus a team of 500 attempting to socially engineer DevOps

Big red button to halt everything in the worst case If there isn't a solid answer for every one of these, it's a matter of when, not if

TSS / MPC for asset custody Redundancy for oracles Physical infrastructure separation, diverse infrastructure providers Version locks for third-party dependencies only if absolutely necessary

If opposition to the DPRK and other dictatorships is a priority, the most effective step is ensuring a protocol is genuinely decentralized and secure. Asking difficult, uncomfortable questions is the only

Infrastructure is a means to an end; it should be kept as simple and secure as possible so teams can't cut corners

General-purpose infrastructure should come with stronger guidance and enforceable requirements from providers who know their systems best.

In traditional infrastructure, regulations exist to protect ordinary homeowners and drivers from failures in critical systems

Similarly with an infrastructure provider like LayerZero: teams building products need infrastructure, but when handed broadly configurable infrastructure nothing prevents insecure or lazy usage

For example, KYT screening services often follow this model, pitching a fully configurable setup while only supplying the tools It's like a contractor handing over a bandsaw instead of delivering a finished

Crucially, the protocol does not mandate a single security configuration; it lets each application and asset issuer define their own security posture This approach is problematic — security is only as

Project Glasswing is an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software It is powered by a new frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which finds software vulnerabilities better than