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The White Whale Playbook: Why Creator Memecoins Keep Crashing | Ep 77🍻🌗

Good now revolutionaries—Emily's back in the co-host chair and we're dissecting the wave of DeFi exploits that just reshaped the conversation around security, governance, and trust. This is not a heat-check episode. This is an autopsy.

Evan walks through the Drift exploit — $285M gone via a 2-of-5 multisig with no time lock — and the KelpDAO bridge exploit that used a single DVN validator on LayerZero to push ~$300M out through bad debt on Aave. Emily translates the security failure modes into plain English: why vibe-coded products are uniformly insecure, what SOC2 actually is (a framework…

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