Your AI assistant can be confidently wrong about your own wallet.
Our founder learned this the hard way.
After the 2024 hack (about $2,000 in total, including 1.088 BNB), Windows was reinstalled. But the MetaMask wallet compromised in 2024 stayed in use.
In March 2026, a WCT airdrop landed in that same wallet. It was swapped to $ETH and sent to an unknown address.
The AI chatbots asked about it said it was a normal glitch or a fee paid by mistake. Nothing was wrong, they said.
The chain said otherwise. The block explorer showed the swap and an outgoing transfer to an address our founder did not recognise.
What we took from it:
• A chatbot reads your story, not the ledger. Open the transaction in a block explorer yourself first.
• If an assistant calls your doubt "paranoia", ask it for on-chain evidence.
• A wallet that was ever compromised stays compromised. Reinstalling the OS does not clean it. Move what's left to a fresh wallet and never reuse the old seed.
AI is a good second opinion. It is a bad first responder.
The full hack story, from 2024 to the 2026 follow-up, is in the Research section of the Cirqus Heresy site.
When something looks wrong in your wallet, what do you check first?
#CryptoSecurity #AIAgents #Web3
Our founder learned this the hard way.
After the 2024 hack (about $2,000 in total, including 1.088 BNB), Windows was reinstalled. But the MetaMask wallet compromised in 2024 stayed in use.
In March 2026, a WCT airdrop landed in that same wallet. It was swapped to $ETH and sent to an unknown address.
The AI chatbots asked about it said it was a normal glitch or a fee paid by mistake. Nothing was wrong, they said.
The chain said otherwise. The block explorer showed the swap and an outgoing transfer to an address our founder did not recognise.
What we took from it:
• A chatbot reads your story, not the ledger. Open the transaction in a block explorer yourself first.
• If an assistant calls your doubt "paranoia", ask it for on-chain evidence.
• A wallet that was ever compromised stays compromised. Reinstalling the OS does not clean it. Move what's left to a fresh wallet and never reuse the old seed.
AI is a good second opinion. It is a bad first responder.
The full hack story, from 2024 to the 2026 follow-up, is in the Research section of the Cirqus Heresy site.
When something looks wrong in your wallet, what do you check first?
#CryptoSecurity #AIAgents #Web3
