Welcome back to the Crypto Curious podcast!

This week… it feels like crypto just stress-tested itself — and not everything held up.

👉🏼 We’re starting with the biggest hack of 2026 so far — a single exploit that drained $292 million from Kelp DAO, froze parts of Aave, and triggered a $5.4 billion run across DeFi. This wasn’t just a bad day… it exposed how quickly confidence can disappear when risk hits the system.

👉🏼 Then we get into one of the more controversial ideas we’ve seen in a while — a proposal to freeze dormant Bitcoin wallets, including Satoshi’s original holdings, to protect the network from future quantum threats. It sounds extreme… but it raises a very real question about security versus immutability.

👉🏼 And finally, a story that hits a bit closer to home for everyday users — a fake Ledger Live app sitting on Apple’s App Store for a full week, draining nearly $10 million before being caught… not by Apple, but by an anonymous Telegram sleuth.

Three stories, one theme: security, trust, and whether the systems we rely on are actually as solid as we think.

So, let’s get into it 🚀

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TIMESTAMPS

3:05 Kelp is what Blake?

13:21 A group of BTC developers asking to freeze 5.6m dormant Bitcoins

16:19 What shocked Tracey? Apple gets bitten!

19:48 Short, sharp news bites

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SHOWNOTES

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227 - $292M Hack. Apple Gets Bitten. Freezing Bitcoin?