Certified Kernel Tech LLC
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Oct 22, 2026
Adeniyi AbiodunGUEST
It barely flinched.
Adeniyi AbiodunGUEST
Certik, I think, audited, so it was audited by an external party.
Adeniyi AbiodunGUEST
Did the network take strain? no not at all could it have taken more it could have taken a lot more what the limiting factor was actually not the network limiting factor was being able to create enough load to actually put traffic onto the network so if we add more machines we could have actually created more load so you've solved the block
Ran NeunerHOST
space so the number of transactions per second is you'll never need more than 40 million no
LewisHOST
And the consequences are no longer just phishing attacks.
LewisHOST
Certik logged 52 verified physical wrench attacks on crypto holders in the first half of 2026, up 33% on the 39 recorded a year earlier.
LewisHOST
Home invasion specifically went from 1 in the first half of 2025 to 20 in the first half of 2026.
LewisHOST
France accounted for 33 of those 52 cases, and French prosecutors reported 77 crypto-linked kidnappings and extortion cases in the first half of 2026. against 45 for the whole of 2025.
David GokhshteinHOST
That's how I felt.
David GokhshteinHOST
You remember the days where Certik would give the audit?
Mitchell AmadorGUEST
I remember it well.
David GokhshteinHOST
Oh my God, the contract's good.
Mitchell AmadorGUEST
I remember it well.
David GokhshteinHOST
You know, you, you had to pay the dev $150,000 to develop s- uh, solidity contract.
David GokhshteinHOST
Then you go ahead and give it off to Certik.
David GokhshteinHOST
Certik will charge you $80,000.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
She just wants a proper burial for her mother at this point.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
That is one distinct possibility, and now he's talking about the dark web? Is that another spontaneous utterance? Why is he minching- mentioning the dark web when it comes to Nancy Guthrie's case unless they're investigating a wrench attack by proxy? Which CertiK, which is a $2 billion company whose job it is is to identify, uh, cryptocurrency people taking advantage and issues with cryptocurrency, when does that happen? CertiK said Nancy Guthrie's is a wrench attack.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
They put them on their 2026 report.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
Take a look at it.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
I've showed it.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
Look up, uh, CertiK, CertiK, however you wanna say it.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
I've done several shows on them.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
They're putting their reputation out there, and that's what they say this is from the information they have, and they have so much more information about these sort of attacks than we do.
Peiyu WangGUEST
However, in some edge cases, we do see some issues related to like design or architecture that does need to, that AI can miss and need to be catch by the human auditors.
Peiyu WangGUEST
So yeah, at CertiK, we are combining all the methodologies to make sure we can catch everything and to help our client more secure.
Sam KamaniHOST
Indeed, indeed.
Sam KamaniHOST
Yeah, that's very cool.
Sam KamaniHOST
But like, you know, every time like Claude or like Anthropic or OpenAI, like, oh, we shouldn't release this model because it's too powerful.
Sam KamaniHOST
You can hack banks, whatever, whatever.
Sam KamaniHOST
I mean, sometimes it's done just as... promotion and you know like a PR just to get more eyeballs on their new latest model but then there is some trust to it I feel like but what are your guys plans to you know how do you how will you cope with future or how will CertiK cope with future in such an environment yeah
Peiyu WangGUEST
yeah So AI right now, so we definitely see a lot of protocol or incident happens because of AI.
CharlesHOST
Listen to this new piece of news.
CharlesHOST
Losses in the cryptocurrency world continue to claim victims, and Certix numbers for the first nine months of 2026 are nothing short of chilling.
CharlesHOST
A staggering 658 incidents have emptied the pockets of businesses and users with a drain of almost $2.7 billion.
CharlesHOST
Although some of this bounty has been recovered, net losses still hover around $2.26 billion.
GuyHOST
But arguably the more important element here is physical.
GuyHOST
Certik verified 52 IRL wrench attacks in the first half of 2026 with $124 million of exposure, an 11.8x increase year-on-year.
GuyHOST
Home invasions went from 14% of those attacks to 37%.
GuyHOST
Meanwhile, the tools Bitcoiners used to work around all this have been systematically dismantled.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
2024, last I checked, it was at, like, 800 million in these sorts of cryptocurrency ransom-type cases.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
And in, uh, you know, we talked a lot about this on the show, and then I could not believe it, but several weeks later, CertiK, or CertiK, however you wanna pronounce it, uh, they are the leading or considered, considered one of the leading cryptocurrency experts.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
They provide security measures for companies so that they're not given ransom.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
If you look this up, CertiK, uh, said in their 2026 report, they listed Nancy Guthrie as a wrench attack.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
Now, I wanna explain what a wrench attack is, or a wrench by proxy.
Jen CoffindafferHOST
This isn't a wrench where you would actually walk in and beat up Nancy to try to get a crypto.
CharlesHOST
And let's face it, it didn't go quite as we hoped.
CharlesHOST
According to the sharp-eyed detectives at CertiK, we've reached a total of 658 security incidents, which translated into cold-heart cash would mean almost $2.7 billion lost.
CharlesHOST
Practically more money than it would take to buy all the pizzas in the world.
CharlesHOST
But don't despair, because not all is lost.
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