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Blockchain investigations

Three signatures. One shared blind spot.

2025-02-21 · FBI estimate, 2025-02-26: approximately $1.5B in stolen virtual assets; not a current net-loss figure.

Bybit: a compromised presentation path can make several independent keys approve the same misunderstood action.

Verify transaction effects through a genuinely independent interpretation path, including changes to future authority.

The zero that became trusted.

2022-08-01 · Historical incident scale: approximately $190M; Coinbase measured over $186M in its observation window.

Nomad: absence of a message proof collided with a zero root accepted by configuration.

Prove existence and validity separately. Default state must never silently become authorization.

The router spent yesterday’s authority.

2023-04-09 · Impact includes standing allowances across deployments. Gross loss, rescued funds and residual loss require separate accounting.

Sushi RouteProcessor2: route and callback validation must constrain the use of persistent spending approvals.

Inventory reachable authority, bind callbacks to their initiating operation, and retire obsolete approvals.

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