Cardano’s IOG warns users off YouTube channel after apparent hijack

This is a textbook social-engineering playbook aimed at the most trusting slice of a project's audience, and the fact that it ran on the developer's own verified channel makes it more credible-looking than the usual impersonation accounts. The reputational risk lands on IOG and Hoskinson personally, since the deepfaked promise is attached to a real founder's face. The open question is whether platform-level account security for crypto projects gets treated as a recurring vulnerability rather than a one-off incident.