CoinDesk reports that Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was hacked to promote a token called $VLAD. The deleted post falsely claimed the token would be listed on Robinhood.
High-profile account takeovers used to push tokens are a recurring pattern, and the lesson for anyone shipping crypto products is that your users treat a founder's social account as an authoritative listing signal. If you're on Avalanche or Base, it's worth making official announcement channels verifiable on-chain or through signed messages so a hijacked X account can't manufacture fake credibility. Also worth checking whether your own team accounts have hardware-key 2FA enforced, since these hacks usually exploit weak account security rather than anything sophisticated.
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