ChainCatcher news reports that the event "Synapse 2025: Exploring the Future of AI," hosted by the Web3 one-stop service provider Cipher Dance, was successfully held at Alibaba Cloud's Hong Kong office, bringing together industry leaders to discuss the future development of AI.The event included two exciting discussion sessions. Guests from 0G Labs, KITE.AI, and Aethir discussed how AI is reshaping various industries, particularly in the application of decentralized technologies and Web3. Core team members from Vly AI, Artela Network, Lumoz, Mysten Labs, and Brevis discussed how AI agents can transform smart contracts and enhance the decision-making process within the blockchain ecosystem.Francis from Vly AI mentioned that they have already integrated AI Agent into their social payment product, allowing users to interact directly with @vly_agent on X to give crypto tips to other users, with plans to provide more intelligent features in the future.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed in a personal channel that the eXch (centralized mixer) team mistakenly sent 34 ETH (worth $96,000) to another exchange's hot wallet address after helping the Bybit security incident hacker group Lazarus Group launder $35 million.

ChainCatcher message, according to crypto analyst @shoucccc, Zhao Changpeng's first TST purchase transaction was sent via a privacy RPC, but the transaction information was still leaked.Zhao Changpeng's transaction set a minimum purchase amount of 363,225 TST, but due to blockchain slippage, he actually received 365,564 TST, a difference of about 0.7%. If the transaction had not used a privacy RPC, it could have resulted in profits worth over $200 being earned by a "sandwich bot." A certain address front-ran Zhao Changpeng's transaction but was then hit by a sandwich, ultimately causing Zhao Changpeng's transaction to fail.Additionally, the address (0xB2d57876271eA8684e7c521c1265b87703d9A0DA) seems to have known about Zhao Changpeng's buy order in advance and attempted to backrun Zhao Changpeng's transaction by checking his TST balance. @shoucccc believes that this address is not a sandwich address and has not previously traded against Zhao Changpeng.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, recently, regarding the February 21 hack of Bybit exchange that resulted in a loss of $1.5 billion, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko stated that although some in the crypto industry are calling for the Ethereum network to be restored to its state before the attack, it is almost impossible to achieve from a technical perspective.Beiko emphasized that, unlike the 2016 TheDAO hack incident, this attack did not violate Ethereum protocol rules, and a rollback would lead to widespread and difficult-to-repair chain reactions, potentially causing more destructive consequences than the hacker's losses. Furthermore, a rollback would undo all settled on-chain transactions while being unable to reverse off-chain transactions.Other industry figures have expressed similar views. Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano pointed out that the current complexity of the Ethereum ecosystem makes a simple rollback of the infrastructure unfeasible. Yuga Labs' blockchain vice president even warned that the cost of a rollback could far exceed $1.5 billion.Previous news, when asked whether he supports rolling back Ethereum to the state before the hack, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou stated, "This is not something one person can decide. Based on the spirit of blockchain, perhaps it should be decided through a community vote, but I'm not sure."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, an employee of OpenAI publicly accused Musk's xAI company of having misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model Grok3. In response, xAI co-founder Igor Babushkin insisted that the company did nothing wrong.xAI's chart shows that the two versions of Grok3—Grok3 Reasoning Beta and Grok3 mini Reasoning—outperformed OpenAI's currently strongest available model o3-mini-high on AIME 2025. However, OpenAI employees quickly pointed out on the X platform that xAI's chart did not include the AIME 2025 score of o3-mini-high under the "cons@64" condition.Babushkin argued on the X platform that OpenAI had previously released similar misleading benchmark charts, even though these charts were used to compare the performance of its own models.

According to ChainCatcher's message, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored that Golem Network, which raised 820,000 ETH in the 2016 ICO, may have sold 7,250 ETH (20 million USD) in the last two days: 6,200 ETH transferred to Binance, and 1,050 ETH transferred to Coinbase. Currently, there should still be 110,000 ETH (3.05 million USD) from 2016 remaining: 10,000 ETH in the Golem: Multisig address, and 100,000 ETH in Ethereum's native staking.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Berkshire Chairman and CEO Buffett emphasized in this year's shareholder letter that despite the company holding a large amount of cash, most of the funds are still invested in stocks, and this strategy will not change. Although the investment in listed stocks has decreased from $354 billion to $272 billion, the value of unlisted equity holdings has increased and far exceeded the listed portfolio.Buffett stated that Berkshire will always allocate most of its funds to stocks, primarily U.S. stocks, even though many companies have significant international operations. He reiterated that Berkshire does not prefer holding cash over excellent businesses.In addition, Berkshire continues to increase fixed-rate borrowings denominated in yen, but has not followed a fixed pattern. Buffett stated that there is no prediction regarding future foreign exchange rates, aiming to maintain a neutral position in terms of currency. Notably, this year's shareholder letter did not mention cryptocurrencies.

ChainCatcher news, Huobi HTX global advisor and TRON founder Justin Sun shared his profound insights on exchange security in a Twitter Space themed "Industry Crisis, How to Cope Together? Is There an Optimal Solution for Security in the Crypto Industry?"He stated that it is evident that hacking methods are continuously evolving, shifting from hot wallet attacks to multi-signature wallet attacks. Exchanges must remain vigilant at all times and dynamically enhance their security measures. In his view, security is a "top-level project," and having a sense of awe and a willingness to learn are key to maintaining security. One must always be humble, always vigilant, and always learning, which ultimately leads to everlasting security. Additionally, security is akin to personal health management; one cannot rely entirely on external guarantees. The exchange's own high regard for and awareness of security are essential to effectively prevent risks and remain undefeated in long-term development.Justin Sun introduced that for Huobi HTX, user security is very important. Therefore, they always follow up on crypto security incidents promptly, understanding the principles and methods of hacker attacks to implement effective prevention. At the same time, Huobi HTX has also collaborated with numerous white hat teams to conduct offensive and defensive testing, enhancing their security capabilities.

ChainCatcher news, Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu posted on platform X, stating that the Bybit $1.5 billion security incident and multiple cases of Safe owner tampering have exposed three major pain points in current blockchain security:Front-end/plugins are easily tampered with, and users cannot verify signed data;The environment of multi-signature key holders lacks independence and has no mandatory review mechanism;Hardware wallet transaction parsing capabilities are weak, essentially in a blind signing state;

ChainCatcher message, Greeks.Live macro researcher Adam released an English community briefing on the X platform, disclosing that despite the Bybit $1.5 billion Ethereum theft incident, market sentiment remains cautiously optimistic, with traders believing this is just a temporary setback. The group consensus will focus on $95,000 to $96,000 as a key support level, expecting a mean reversion upward, but there are some divergences regarding the price trend over the weekend.The market believes the impact of this hacking incident is manageable. Binance and Bitget provided emergency liquidity support by depositing 50,000 Ethereum, and traders are actively selling low volatility options (29% volatility), indicating limited concern about further declines.

ChainCatcher message, cross-chain bridge Chainflip updates on the latest developments of the Bybit theft incident, stating, "We have noticed that hackers are attempting to convert the stolen funds from Bybit into BTC through Chainflip. Currently, we have shut down part of our front-end services to stop the flow of funds, but since the protocol is fully decentralized, with 150 nodes, we cannot completely shut down the entire system.As a more long-term solution, we are strengthening the filtering mechanism at the ETH proxy level to reject suspicious deposits through the broker-api. This mechanism is currently applicable to BTC, and we just need to complete the implementation for ETH."

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz posted on the X platform calling for global leaders to take action against the hacker group Lazarus Group, while praising Bybit for completing world-class resolution work after being attacked.

ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain bridge Chainflip responded to Bybit CEO's freezing request stating, "We have done our best to handle the current situation, but as a decentralized protocol, we cannot completely stop, freeze, or redirect any funds. However, we have currently shut down some front-end services to prevent the flow of funds."Previous news, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou posted on social media that he has detected hackers attempting to transfer assets to the BTC network via Chainflip. He hopes that the cross-chain bridge project will help Bybit stop and prevent further asset transfers to other chains. Bybit will soon launch a bounty program for anyone who helps them stop or track down the funds leading to recovery.

ChainCatcher news, Catizen Foundation Chairman Tim Wong stated on Twitter that he firmly believes Bybit will successfully overcome the current challenges. As one of Bybit's important partners, Tim reflected on the valuable support Bybit provided during the early development of Catizen, especially in terms of marketing and resource integration.Tim Wong emphasized that although Bybit is currently facing some challenges, he believes Bybit will quickly resolve the current difficulties and draw strength from them to continue growing. The tweet stated: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

ChainCatcher message, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou disclosed that hackers are converting stolen funds into Bitcoin through the Chainflip cross-chain bridge. Zhou published several suspicious transaction hashes and the hacker's Bitcoin receiving address, while calling on cross-chain bridge service providers to assist in stopping the fund transfer.Zhou stated that Bybit will soon launch a bounty program to reward those who help track or stop the fund transfer and ultimately facilitate the recovery of the funds.

ChainCatcher news, the founder of Slow Mist, Cosine, stated on social media that from a security perspective, the suggestion to urgently stop the wallet system in the case of unknown reasons is correct. Bybit's response to the theft was very quick, and identifying the problem was also swift. Slow Mist and some security teams immediately intervened for communication, quickly determining the issue and speculating on the hacker's profile. Bybit was well-prepared and had no issues in promptly reopening withdrawals.Cosine explained that he believes there is no problem with Zhao Changpeng's previous suggestion and Bybit's final resolution. Currently, many industry insiders are infighting over this controversy, forgetting that the common enemy should be North Korean hackers.Previous news, Zhao Changpeng suggested that Bybit temporarily stop all withdrawals, stating that he would provide any assistance if needed.

ChainCatcher message, Ethena Labs posted updates related to the Bybit security incident on X:All spot assets supporting USDe are held in an off-chain custody solution, including those held by ByBit through Copper Clearloop. No exchange, including Bybit, has spot value.The total unrealized PNL (profit and loss) related to Bybit hedge positions is less than $30 million, which is less than half of the reserves.Currently, USDe is still over-collateralized.All USDe redemptions are proceeding normally, and the liquid stablecoin value supported by USDe is $2 billion, which can be redeemed at any time if users need.At the same time, Ethena Labs stated that they stand with Bybit and are ready to provide assistance.