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Governance Exploits in Disguise
In April 2022, an attacker drained approximately $182 million from Beanstalk Farms, an algorithmic stablecoin protocol, netting roughly $80 million after repaying over $1 billion in flash loans. They did not break a …
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Apr 14, 2026
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Lessons Learned from the First Wave of Experiments with AI in Governance
Something important has quietly broken in the world of decentralized governance. The early wave of AI-assisted governance tooling, designed to fix the participation crisis inside …
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