Dear BitMEX Users, Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut down its operations, effective 23 September 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC. The owner and operator of BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, has made the difficult decision to close operations following a strategic review of the business. It may not look the same today, but we are proud of our 11+ year legacy and the role we played in shaping the crypto industry. We invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap, which for most of you, was the first step to your crypto trading journey. It is now the most traded financial product in the crypto industry, adopted by thousands of users and exchanges. And we remain proud of our robust security infrastructure, which has allowed us to maintain a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks in our entire operating history. We want to reassure you that your assets remain fully safe and under your control during this transition period. This announcement is just to give enough time to ensure a smooth withdrawal process for everyone. From today we strongly encourage all users to close their positions and withdraw their funds as soon as convenient. For more details on the full process, please read our blog: https://www.bitmex.com/blog/bitmex-closu… BitMEX was once home to some of the greatest traders today. Our team has dedicated tremendous effort and passion into building the platform into what it is, and we are glad to have reached some of you during your time with us. To everyone who has traded, supported, and grown alongside us - thank you for your trust over the last 11 years. The BitMEX Team

we're launching BUZZ! a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝 https://buzz.xyz

It's hard to believe it's already been 11 years. On July 30 2015 we launched Ethereum from a small scrappy office in Berlin's Kreuzberg. So much has changed since then. Ethereum has undergone so many transformations yet one thing stays the same. Ethereum is the world computer.

Surveillance is creeping into everyday life. Even in Berlin, police are pushing for broader camera powers, and new surveillance laws are being rushed through. So I built 𝐤𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐢 (dot com): a walk/bike route planner that avoids cameras, fully offline on your device!

Everyone was mocking @brian_armstrong for using a fake CryptoPunk as his profile picture. Congratulations. Now he doesn’t use a CryptoPunk at all. Whether it was an official Punk or not, one of the biggest names in crypto was putting CryptoPunks in front of millions of people every day. Instead of appreciating that, people obsessed over whether the PFP was real. If someone with Brian’s reach chooses to represent your culture, maybe the first reaction shouldn’t be to push them away. Sometimes the community becomes the brand’s own worst enemy.

Important Forma update After careful consideration, we've made the difficult decision to sunset the Forma chain. We understand this announcement may feel sudden, and we wanted the news to come directly from our team as soon as the decision was finalized. 🧵

After 5+ years, we're winding down POAP. Over the years, we: * minted millions of collectibles across hundreds of communities. * did incredible collaborations with world-class organizations - Coinbase, Amex, WMG, Bayer, and a long tail of others, including countless in crypto. * ran one of the biggest activations at Devcon, minting 8000+ collectibles over the course of a week. * built an Airport Rally to let collectors get POAPs at airports around the world. POAP meant something to a lot of people. Unfortunately, crypto's funding cycles and distribution dynamics made it hard to build a sustainable company without cannibalizing the ethos that made POAP mean something. Building on a fragile and quickly evolving stack, in the middle of an incredible hype cycle, only added to the challenges. Still, there are some big lessons I am carrying from the POAP story. First: Customer communities are the most undervalued asset a company can have. If you build something with soul, people who use it and love it will take your brand everywhere. Do not underestimate the power of customer communities. Second: Connection is still the point. It's easy to lose that thread when the conversation is about the latest bubbly tech or price speculation, but the people using POAPs at events, in classrooms, at hackathons were getting something real out of it. Third: Longevity and brand equity are the only moats left. With the time to building and shipping something new collapsing quickly, and distribution becoming increasingly an engineering problem, customers increasingly want to make sure they can trust that the things they are buying will grow and evolve with the market, without changing radically. Grateful for everyone who believed in what we were building. It's too soon for me to say what's next, but for now, I'm thinking a lot about what GTM looks like in the age of AI.

➥ crypto wallet IP-exposure scorecard my main wallet GOT DRAINED yesterday, so i spent hours checking safer wallets to move on the Open Source Press recently analyzed the network traffic of popular Web3 wallets to identify how much info leaves your device before you even create a wallet the setup was intentionally simple: - clean Android device - no SIM card - fresh APK installation - VPN enabled - every packet logged from the moment the wallet was opened the user never created a wallet, imported a seed phrase & connected an account the only thing measured was what each wallet sent to the internet immediately after launch how the privacy score works? - the score ranges from 0 - 100 - a higher score means less network exposure the ranking is based on 2 simple metrics: → number of unique IP addresses contacted → number of unique domains contacted fewer outbound connections = fewer parties learning your IP address + device info before you even own a wallet privacy ranking post-filtered: [1] Top Tier (90-100) @cakewallet @stack_wallet @zodl_app @Trezor @vultisig @unstoppablebyhs @ZeusLN @phantom @tetherwallet @bluewalletio @zano_project [2] Middle Tier (70-89) @exodus @AtomicWallet @Thorwallet @keplrwallet @TrustWallet @safe @Rabby_io @rainbowdotme @Backpack @EdgeWallet [3] Lower Tier (<70) @Ledger @MetaMask @base wallet @solflare @Cryptocom wallet @Tangem @wallet @SafePal the differences are significant as bellow - Cake Wallet generated 0 outbound packets, 0 DNS requests, contacted 0 domains before user interaction - Zodl contacted just 1 endpoint - Unstoppable contacted only 2 endpoints - Phantom routed third-party services through its own infra, reducing direct exposure to external vendors at the other end: - SafePal contacted 26 domains across 41 IP addresses immediately after launch - OKX Wallet initialized AppsFlyer, Amplitude, OneSignal, ThreatMetrix fingerprinting, Alibaba endpoints, and other services before a wallet even existed many mainstream wallets also initialize analytics, attribution, crash reporting or messaging platforms such as Firebase, AppsFlyer, Segment, Braze, Customerio, Sentry, Crashlytics, Amplitude during cold start that doesn't automatically make them insecure these services help teams improve products, diagnose crashes, and measure usage but they also mean your IP address + device can be visible to multiple third parties before you generate your first private key for anyone who values network privacy, that's an important distinction onchain privacy starts with the wallet you choose but network privacy starts the moment you open the app s/o to @r4nk0X for the great insights

guys, ethereum wasn't created to fit into the existing system. it was created to _route around it_. somewhere along the way, we stopped trying to make the old world obsolete and started asking for its approval. fuck approval. wtf are we building today that makes the old world obsolete? not 10% cheaper. not 20% faster. _obsolete_.

Silicon Valley: Open Source isn't how the world works!!?! The world:

Liquidity update: 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱-𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲, 𝟭𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗢𝗟 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 A quick update on where Botto's liquidity stands following BIP-99. Following BIP-99, the $BOTTO liquidity pool on Solana (originally set up under BIP-69) has now been fully removed and bridged back to Ethereum mainnet. This closes out the Solana initiative and consolidates Botto's liquidity into one place, reducing fragmentation and operational overhead. A new v3 liquidity position has been created on Ethereum, and 10% of protocol-owned liquidity has now been permanently locked via UNCX. Lock linked below 🔗 ↓ 𝗜𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆: ✅ Solana pool closed out (BIP-69 → BIP-99) ✅ Liquidity moved back to Ethereum ✅ 10% of protocol-owned liquidity locked via UNCX