#dusk $DUSK @Dusk quick note before I lose the thread on this. was digging through recent activity for the task and landed on the August 16 incident team flagged suspicious activity on a wallet tied to bridge ops and within hours the bridge got paused, addresses recycled, and a Web Wallet blocklist went live to stop funds moving to flagged addresses.
Coordinated with Binance on the flow too. Clean, fast, no drama in the announcement. the thing that actually stuck with me… the marketing is all self custody, you hold your keys. Fine, true at the wallet level. But watching this play out, the bridge layer clearly isn't that someone can pause it, someone can blocklist a recipient address, someone decides recycle these. Not a criticism exactly, it's probably the responsible move given what happened. Just the emergency lever exists, and it's not in the user's hand.
Had to double check I wasn't misreading "team managed wallet as something more damning than it was. It's not a hack of the chain itself, more a security containment thing. Still...makes me wonder how much of decentralized infra language across this whole sector is actually true at every layer, versus true where it's convenient to say so.
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Coordinated with Binance on the flow too. Clean, fast, no drama in the announcement. the thing that actually stuck with me… the marketing is all self custody, you hold your keys. Fine, true at the wallet level. But watching this play out, the bridge layer clearly isn't that someone can pause it, someone can blocklist a recipient address, someone decides recycle these. Not a criticism exactly, it's probably the responsible move given what happened. Just the emergency lever exists, and it's not in the user's hand.
Had to double check I wasn't misreading "team managed wallet as something more damning than it was. It's not a hack of the chain itself, more a security containment thing. Still...makes me wonder how much of decentralized infra language across this whole sector is actually true at every layer, versus true where it's convenient to say so.
$BMT $ONG
