Durov: Push logs can expose chats; WLFI hits record low

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov warned that push notification logs on phones can expose message histories after forensic analysts at the U.S. FBI accessed an iPhone’s notification system logs and recovered Signal messages. He cautioned that metadata and system logs can undermine end-to-end encryption protections.

Push notifications are delivered by device operating systems and can include message excerpts, timestamps and other metadata. Those items are often stored in system logs on the device and can be accessed by forensic tools or during device inspections, allowing investigators to reconstruct parts of conversations without breaking an app’s encryption.

Durov wrote: “Turning off notification previews won’t make you safe if you use those applications, because you never know whether the people you message have done the same.” He noted the risk arises from device logging rather than the messaging app’s encryption.

Separately, WLFI, the native token of the Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial platform, fell to about $0.07714 on Saturday after on-chain data showed the project used a large amount of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins. The token was down roughly 4.7% over the prior 24 hours at $0.07879 and is about 83% below a $0.46 peak reached last September.

Blockchain analytics data indicated a wallet linked to World Liberty Financial deposited approximately 5 billion WLFI tokens on Dolomite, a decentralized lending platform co-founded by the project’s chief technology officer, Corey Caplan. The wallet then used those tokens as collateral to borrow about $75 million in USD1 and USDC stablecoins and later transferred more than $40 million to Coinbase Prime. Market participants pointed to the token-backed borrowing as a factor in the selloff.

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.9% month-over-month in March and 3.3% year-over-year, the largest monthly increase in nearly four years. Energy price increases contributed to the monthly gain after a closure of the Strait of Hormuz tightened supply. Bitcoin traded above $73,000 and Ether approached $2,300 after the report. Futures markets priced in less than a 2% chance of a Federal Reserve rate cut at the upcoming meeting.

End-to-end encryption protects message content in transit but does not prevent operating systems or device logs from recording notification preview text or metadata. World Liberty Financial launched WLFI as its native token; the recent use of WLFI as loan collateral drew scrutiny from traders and on-chain observers.