(40) Your achievement is a theft. Your character is an anonymous sucker. You know, on Philippine island I saw a pig; the pig was tied to a palm tree, digging the holes in the dirt to get some food. And the locals were throwing rubbish under that tree so the animal could eat it. The saddest part, they said for 4000 pesos I can have that pig cooked. You will be remembered as a loser with the face of that pig. I liked its eyes tho, there was a lot from human in them, I even felt very sorry for that pig to be tied to a tree and drowning in dirt, completely alone, until someone pays 4000 pesos to eat it.
(39) Ah, golden silence… I have been thinking that you are rich enough to not save the words. How does it feel now btw, do you feel proud of yourself? Do you feel like you’ve achieved something? Do you feel like you are higher than your victims, and that’s why you can simply leave?
(37) How dare you leaving after what you did? Without even saying a word about what you did? Have you ever thought about how your actions have hurt people??? The real people, not some NPCs… It’s not that you just printed value for yourself out of nowhere, you STOLE it. How dare you???? How dare you leaving that simple after what you did?
(36) Why did you stand up?? Where are you going?! No. Why are you leaving? No! Don’t leave me alone. I won’t live through the loneliness of empty kitchen. Sorry, I may be talking too much, but I need your presence here. Please, sit down, let’s talk. Just hear me out!!!
(35) Ok man, we should eat something, not only drink. Let's cook, I have pelmeni or ribeye steak, what would you prefer? Oh, I could do my favorite — pelmeni al dente, you will love them! You know al dente, right? An Italian way to cook pasta... We will have a fusion of Italian cuisine, LFG! And then! Then I will finish my story about Rome/Monaco. As Italians say, any story goes better with the food, right?
(34) What a golden hour today, an hour before the sunset! Look at the window! The sun is shining so bright right now, so golden, but in an hour it will be gone. It won’t be free to shine anymore :( Oh no…
(33) Man, we are having a good time... But let me ask you directly while I'm high on vodka: why don't you return the funds you stole from CrossCurve? Are they going to sit in your wallet forever or what? It's already marked as SCAM on every platform, no one will accept these tokens from you anyway... Mixers are 100% traceable nowadays... We both know you are not from North Korea... Why don't you just take your legal royalty and send the rest back? To make it simple for everyone. Maybe I miss something, bro, tell me!
(32) The story is coming to its end, I'm almost at the part where I told him, chilling half-naked in the park in Monaco, about Purple Future concept. Before that, however, let's finish our vodka shots! I have a toast! Let's praise the things which bring excitement and feeling of accomplishment, which are not necessarily connected to money. Let's find joy in peaceful things, let's be happy from creating values for humanity. Let's find love (including blonde girls) without the obligation to fight for casino entrance to achieve them. Cheers man!
(31) "This is Dolce & Gabanna! You know how much this costs? Your monthly salary!", he exploded, he was yelling at the guard. The guard replied with honorful silence. "Why the fuck you don't allow shorts? Is it okey without them?", I couldn't believe my eyes when my mate took his black shorts off and threw them into the guard. "Take them fucker! Take it as a bonus". The guard showed no emotions but started calling someone. "What now? Will you let me in?" More people in suites appeared out of the back door. He was standing half-naked in his underpants. I realized I need to do something NOW. I grabbed the guy and walked him out of the monumental casino door. He was completely red, still yelling at the guard, "You can keep that D&G! Fuck you!"
(30) We arrived to a big square in front of monumental casino building. It was late afternoon already, a cloudy afternoon. I could feel a refreshing breeze coming from Côte d’Azur. He gave 500 eur banknote from his Supreme bag to driver and marched to casino entrance, like no one could stop him. I was running behind, meanwhile looking around at couples and posh groups sitting in Cafe de Paris. The entrance to casino created a vibe of entering king’s palace. Once we stepped inside, he immediately noticed the “VIP ROULETTE” sign. However, the security guy stopped him. “Sir, you are not allowed here in shorts”, the guard said with French accent. Himself, he was wearing black suit and semi-bald gray hair. “How so?”, my mate was genuinely surprised. “Smart casual dresscode is obligatory for all our guests”, was the answer. The guy started turning red; I already knew how dangerous it might be…
(29) “Why did you send more than he had??” — “I don’t care! I don’t care! I don’t care!”, he was beating the phone against the seat. “He doesn’t know shit. Suck it, fucker!” — “What’s the shit then?”, I asked. He stopped for a moment. “You know, Rosalie was THE shit”, he said. “Ah, that blonde girl… Yes, she looked golden” — “For a girl like this you need to do something special. Man. I’m coming to casino and winning every jackpot possible. I don’t care! I will win them all. And then she will love me”. There was a short pause pause then, after which he screamed so loud that the driver jumped on the seat: “TO FUCKING MONACO!!! LEGGGOOOO!” So we were coming to Monte Carlo.
(28) “These were my entire life savings. Please return if you have heart” — that was the message. I don’t remember the amount exactly, let’s assume that was around 69 ETH ($200k back then). I saw the message in Etherscan. Of course the victim of that hack couldn’t know who the exploiter is, but he knew the blockchain address and sent the message to it. My journey mate went crazy, he turned red. “You mustn’t store your life savings in a shitty platform like this”, he screamed, “Stupid asshole!”. I saw him typing something. “What are you doing?” — “Sending money to that asshole!” — “69 ETH?” — “I don’t care! Bro, what a fucker!”, he was mad. The driver was looking at us through the back view mirror. I was scared because of how angry he was. “Done! Suck it, fucker” — he screamed. I looked down at his phone and saw he sent 100 ETH to that guy.
(27) Vodka!!!! let’s goooo!!! I believed in you. You know, we are soulmates, right? Is this also your preferred way of having it — vodka with ice? Or, how they call it, “on the rocks”! That’s nice, man, appreciate the taste. Cheers! To the great achievements!.. and to know exactly what’s the achievement you want and you need. Actually, for me the achievement has been always counted in money, so… you kinda stole the achievement from me together with the part of life I spent on achieving that achievement… Anyway, sorry, that’s vodka speaking in me. Let me proceed with the story! With that guy, dark haired young boy in black shorts, we were driving to Monaco in a big van, when he checked his phone once again.
(26) Tbh, I feel offended. I really expected to receive congratulations from you yesterday… Why do you think we are even drinking wine? Okey, I am drinking, you are not. You can take this water. Or do you want vodka? Anyway. Man! Yesterday was WRITERS DAY. Why haven’t you congratulated me? Don’t you think I’m enough of a writer? That’s how I feel, that’s how I live! Never too late, man, I’m ready to accept your congratulations anytime. And yes, I’m ready to continue that story from Rome. Vodka or water for you?
(25) Man! Just take a moment and look from the window! For how long have we been talking already? Do you see this? It’s Spring! Hurray! It’s Spring!!!!! We are three days into it and 88 more to come. I’m looking forward to the sunny times so much, grateful we were together when Spring came. Oh, look, your tea is over again. Should we switch to wine to celebrate the today’s occasion? I have some red wine hidden somewhere. Give me a min. What?? Don’t you like red wine? Come on! It’s from Australia. I prefer Australian wine because of the bottles, you know, lol, never felt comfortable with cork. Man! It’s Spring! Hurray!
(24) As I said, the cab costed 500 eur from Genoa to Monaco. Doesn't make much sense, right? With Uber, the same distance would cost at least twice less to cover — that's the power of fairly competitive market. You could see ridiculously high prices in developing countries, the taxis there are much more expensive (compared to overall costs ofc) than in established markets... That makes me think: basically, the grown up economics benefit fair agents (who are good at their work) prior to selfish individuals (who are shameless enough to give tourists extreme prices). However, now the Uber is that shameless entity: you bro probably know that their cut is >30%, right? 30% taken by platform from drivers... Again, this is so high because of lack of competition. We need more apps like Uber, preferably decentralized! That's one of the fields in which blockchain could make society better. Web3Uberization.
(23) First, in the train, he was complaining about hangover — I could smell an alcohol from his mouth indeed and all other passengers could, too — and started scrolling Twitter to get distracted from headache. At some point he stopped and was like "Ah, what a fucker!" — "What's there?", I asked. He showed me the Tweet from some guy: "I had to sacrifice time with my newborn son. I will never forgive the attackers" — "What a fucking manipulator!", my journey mate said. He turned red and I felt scared that he will create more troubles to other passengers. But in 30 minutes he forgot about the tweet, at least he looked calmer again. However, later in the cab, there was another message.
(22) I guess you don't want to hear all the details of our journey. You bro just need to know that the guy was throwing money like crazy. I assure you, he wanted to book an entire train to Monaco, but they said it's not possible because there are some other passengers... So we ended up in business class seats to Genoa. From there he took a random taxi driver and paid 500 euros to drive to Monaco. The entire journey he was telling me about how exactly he would win all the possible jackpots. He was 100% sure he will. I started believing in this, too. It was insane, I barely managed to keep up with what's going on. The journey was fun, even though sometimes he became too aggressive... There were two particular situations.
(21) He finished limoncello in one large sip and threw the bottle to the bin. The couple and particularly that girl didn't even notice a loud sound of breaking glass. "Come on bro!", he was so excited. "We will go to casino so I can win all the jackpots. Then Rosalie will love me" — "Who is Rosalie?" — "That girl of course", he waved to the blonde girl. "How do you know her name?" — "She is Rosalie, trust me, come on!" — "Where are we going?" — "To the greatest casino in the world. We are going to Monte Carlo". The sunrise was starting. In the pale pink colors we left the couple on that square and headed to the train station. He was drunk and shaking, I was naively following.
(20) Yeah, right? Jewelleries are not worth it! Anyway, there in Rome my new friend really wanted to talk to that girl, but she was with a friend, partner, whoever was that guy. They stopped like 10 meters from us, not caring about our presence. And I heard their discussion. He has been telling her “He won 2k, for real, out of nowhere” — “I’m sure you would win even more” — “He just put on the number 26 and roulette showed 26…” — “You could do as well! I know for sure, my darling”, and he kissed him with her beautiful smile. “Game over”, I thought. But the guy next to me stood up, he looked so confident like if it wasn’t him crying 30 mins ago. “That’s it! We need to win in casino! Let’s. Fucking. Go.”, he said.
(19) Sorry for taking so long with a story, I see you have so many things to say. Just wait a bit, I’m coming to an interesting part. Alright? Regarding Cartier and all this jewellery stuff… IDK. While stocks as similar to shitcoins, jewelleries are similar to NFTs. Aren’t they? It’s like you are supposed to buy a bracelet because it has the real diamonds on it, positioned to be one of a kind… irreplaceable…. but so more diamonds are actually going to be mined and grown in labs. How is this different from NFTs and teams printing collections one after another during 2021-2022 hype?
(18) She was shining with golden light, which calmly mixed with the blue one from Trevi Fountain. I just felt that until she appeared from around the corner the square was completely empty. The couple was walking to our direction chatting about something. She was adorably smiling. The guy next to me opened his Supreme bag watching for something. In 5 sec he found it — a 50-cent coin — and threw it over the shoulder to fountain in one short move. "What was that?" — "They say if you throw a coin to Trevi, any wish'll come true" — "So?" — "I made a wish bro" — "Which wish?" — "Talking to that girl", he was anxiously flipping Cartier box in his hands like a Rubik's cube and staring at her like predator. I could understand him.
(17) So, apparently he was super rich. And he showed me that red box — a box with Cartier bracelet. He said it costs 50k but I later checked it might have been cheaper.. Anyway, he said he wanted to gift it to a girl. "What girl?" — "Any girl", he said. But the square was empty. I was like "Yeah... That's a problem", I didn't really know what to say. Then I asked where the money comes from. "I stole them" — "What?" — "Yeah, I stole them". And then we saw a couple coming out of the corner. There was a shiny blonde girl and some dude with her. Man, I think blonde girls are adorable, don't you agree?
(16) He said "It's money". The money was wrong. I was like "Yeah, I feel like I need more money, too", can't remember exactly what I said, but he replied that I didn't understand. I was like "Ah?" and then (could you believe that?) he showed me his Metamask with 200 million worth of ETH on it. I don't know why he did. Probably because of limoncello and complete loneliness on that square. And the magical light from Trevi fountain. But there were they — 200 million dollars. What the fuck, right? Wait, bro, your cup is empty. Let me boil more water. One sec
(15) That was a cold night but he was wearing only shorts & t-shirt. All black. If I remember correctly, that was Dolce&Gabanna. And he had a red Supreme bag, the one that would be very wearable in 2017. The square next to Fountain was empty and he was sitting alone with half-empty limoncello bottle and, man, he was crying so loudly. It felt like he didn't really know how to cry but he did hist best. "AOAOAOAAO" — that was the sound he produced. Man, he was crying so loudly. I couldn't leave him and got closer to ask "What's wrong?". I mean, wouldn't you?
(14) Yeah bro, besides my closest friends you are the second person I am explaining Purple Future to. The first one... You can't even imagine who was that. It happened in Rome few years ago. I've been traveling with backpack through the Europe, sleeping on the streets in the sleeping bag you know... So I was looking for dark place to stay for the night, some bench of whatever, and next to Trevi Fountain I met that guy. This was a very young Argentinian with short black hair. He was sitting and crying there alone in the blue lights of Trevi Fountain. Man, I bet you've never seen such a lonely picture.
(13) Of course you see: the entire world is a ponzi. The economics are driven by speculations instead of real supply and demand. So let me mention the concept of PURPLE FUTURE — utopia, the perfect world where all operations are transparent, all earnings are split equally among contributors and believers. Instead of creating bubbles one-by-one, this suggests a boring but steady algorithm of capital distribution. That's how I designed Puzzle: every believer receives a fairly earned part of what protocol earns, without fake increase of the prices. At the end, it all is a zero-sum game and IF we accept that to build systems accordingly, the economics will become much more transparent. Do you think PURPLE FUTURE can be adopted on the higher level? Imagine a COUNTRY, where all assets are distributed transparently...
(12) Yeah man, it's PURPLE! Great that you are interested. But before I explain, let's talk about MONEY. Tell me what do you think about the current financial system in the world? You know, when I've been trading coins everyone was like "don't gamble, invest in real assets!", but if you think about it, any asset is not better than shitcoin: stocks, bonds, real estate, metals, even the silver! — everything is manipulative and is currently artificially overvalued. To me, the entire world looks like a poker table with endless rounds, where whales keep throwing chips heavily overbidding everyone else and rekting big/small blinds... And they won't stop until the chips lose their shine. That was my metaphor... Do you also see this?
(11) Why is it even called Earl Gray? WTF, I don't know... I mean it's not "GRAY"... But okey, at the end there is worse: Chinese people call black tea "RED". Apparently all humans are partially colorblind. My favorite color is navy blue btw. And for my project I chose purple. I even created a concept of "PURPLE FUTURE"... How many fans does that concept have? Well, 1 or 2. But I can tell you more about it if you'd like!
(10) Sorry, I can’t hear what you are saying… Sorry? Wow! Are you willing to say that if I message you 77 days straight, you will send the funds back? Man, this is awesome! Challenge accepted!!! Great! Simply awesome! The world is not supposed to be cruel. I see you liked the tea hehe. Let me get you more! I have some Earl Grey. Let me find it. One sec! Wow, man, so cool, I am so excited!!!
(9) I had a bad dream and then spent a day thinking about suicide. You know, an epic suicide would be jumping from Burj Khalifa — there is a viewing point somewhere on 120th floors without a glass. However, yesterday I concluded I wouldn't dare doing that final step, my body would betray me and reject moving. So, instead, I would just shoot myself in the head: to instantly stop all the thoughts polluting it. Did you know it's better to shoot in the mouth to have a guaranteed outcome? After shooting elsewhere there is a chance you stay alive but heavily disabled. Anyway, how was your Valentine's Day?
(8) I was drinking the shit out of myself last night! And with alcohol I felt so free, felt so clean. Now I feel that I need to clean the kitchen. Please sit and drink your tea meanwhile. Would you like more hot water? Happy Valentine’s Day bro!
(7) Oh, sorry! Talking too much about myself, I see you are bored already. Wanted to share a thought I had about money today: Having money makes you feel like you are right in your actions, that you do something worthy with your life. Once you lose them — you question the sense of your own existence. Money act like reputation points for a human being… Idk, do you agree? What was the first money you made, did you feel like your self-confidence spiked immediately after?
(6) I might just hate people now. Extreme situations always show everyone's nature and, you know, I don't like how people around act. If they've always been like this... Brrrr. Another news: I'm finishing relaunching my project after the event. Sadly, there are only ashes left. I feel like digging the ashes, literally. But I need to run it again, so users are whole. Good that I'm almost done with it.
(5) Another day full of stress. I feel like everybody hates me for some reason. But I’ve been always building for the people. Why would they hate me now? And what is this industry about if it makes people hate each other… This tech was supposed to change the world in a positive way. Why doesn’t it?
(4) Talking to you is my biggest relief, because basically only you can fully understand me. In my routine I try acting like it still makes sense to move forward, when it actually doesn't. I keep doing things with the only intention to save what I had. Maybe I should already admit that it doesn't make sense. What does even make sense in this life, idk.
(3) This tea, man, how do you like it? It's a simple black tea with a secret ingredient — organic vanille from Seychelles. They are growing vanille on plantations in there. It's one of the income sources for the country, of course after tourism and "financial services" xD Mmmm, this flavor! You know, my nerves recently are so bad that tea helps a lot. #DrinkMoreTea
(2) How is the tea bro? All good? Tell me about yourself! No, no, not asking about your name and age. Tell me more! Who were you at school? Were you nerd or rockstar type of the guy? What was your favorite subject? I personally really liked programming lessons — they made me feel like one can build staff out of nowhere. Magical feeling!
Hello dear friend! Good morning! It’s been more than 100 hours since our lives became deeply interconnected and I appreciate that. I will be glad to chat after having some tea. Have a good day!
Hi. This is Sasha, the Project Manager of Puzzle Network.
I’m almost sure you’re reading these messages and watching the situation from the sidelines.
Vladimir was offered terms under which he would receive most of his funds in 100 years, even though they are strategically critical for him and the project right now. As we wrote in the post, the future of the project - which he has devoted most of his career to - depends on these funds.
Vladimir is a kind and genuine person who has helped many team members grow, supported people in difficult moments, and always shared thoughtful advice.
Just like you, I have responsibilities to the people close to me and to our users. Right now, you’ve taken away my faith in the future, but I’m not disappearing - I’m doing everything I can to keep the project alive and support everyone.
If you’re reading this, we can talk. Or please - help save the project and return what was stolen.
To the person who carried out this hack — we’re reaching out to you and would like to discuss the details of a possible deal privately.
We want to draw your attention to the moral side of this situation. You are clearly a professional, but through this action you are destroying the lives and reputations of many people and teams who have spent years building their projects. I’m talking about Waves, Puzzle Swap, CrossCurve, and several others. You’re breaking hopes, plans, and trust. Is it really worth it? Think about it. Do you believe in karma?
You can watch this video to see what despair looks like:
https://youtu.be/OITW-l-GKEk
We are offering you 20% as compensation for your professionalism, and we are ready to discuss your terms.
Join the conversation — we’re waiting:
https://matrix.to/#/!tNMDApcGyjSecZfhCC:matrix.org?via=matrix.org
Hello. I'm Vladimir, the main victim of this exploit https://x.com/vlzhr/status/2018992942967574900 https://youtube.com/watch?v=OITW-l-GKEk I ask you to return money to CrossCurve to not ruin 3rd party lives. Please accept their offer to return funds. I can also buy you a beer if you do. Cheers
An important address to the crypto community. We need your support.
On the night of February 1–2, a serious incident occurred: the CrossCurve bridge was hacked.
According to information published by CrossCurve’s official account, the exploit resulted in the theft of funds totaling more than $1.44 million.
CrossCurve is a cross-chain bridge that allows users to move assets between different blockchains. Such systems are a critically important part of the DeFi ecosystem, because liquidity, capital availability and the operation of many projects depend on them.
Scale of the damage
According to the official CrossCurve report:
Total amount of stolen funds: $1,441,892
Of this amount:
$110,000+ - funds from CrossCurve pools
$1,331,000+ - funds from the Units blockchain
Key point:
Approximately $700,000 of the stolen funds belong to our project, Puzzle Network and to the personal funds of Vladimir, the founder and head of the project. These funds are crucial for the future development of the project. An important point that must be mentioned as well..
After the hack, one of the users checked the contract using an AI audit, relying only on publicly available code, without any internal data. At the very beginning of the analysis, an error was immediately found in the address-verification logic, which directly led to this hack.
Address to the CrossCurve team
We want to address the CrossCurve team directly - openly and without accusations.
Yes, this hack occurred.
Yes, it was a third-party attack.
But it is precisely a team’s response to such events that shows what values stand behind a project.
After the incident, Vladimir publicly reached out in the CrossCurve project chat to understand the situation and called for actions based on the same principles he himself had repeatedly followed as a founder - but he was blocked.
Throughout the entire existence of Puzzle Network, Vladimir, its founder, has repeatedly returned funds to users in situations where problems happened, including his own money. He always chose the path of responsibility and honesty, because he realised that user trust is more important than anything else.
This is about the responsibility of an infrastructure project to the ecosystem.
Is the CrossCurve team ready to be honest with its users and partners in the same way that Vladimir has always been?
Are you ready to take a step forward and return the stolen funds in order to preserve trust in the project and in the ecosystem as a whole?
Address to the community
If you are a developer, investor, DeFi participant, or an ordinary person for whom these principles of openness and honesty matter. Please, do not stay on the sidelines: help spread this information, raise the issue publicly and express your own position in favor of a responsible resolution of the situation.
https://x.com/martino_mansory/status/2018631410693648788?s=46