Cryptocurrency
Blockchain hashing, wallets and on-chain incidents. Clear-eyed coverage of how crypto works under the hood, the security trade-offs, and the hacks and exploits worth learning from.
DeFi Exploits Hit Q2 Record: 99 Hacks, $746M Lost [2026]
DeFi just had its worst quarter for attack volume on record, and the money hasn’t stopped moving since. DefiLlama’s tracker logged 99 separate exploits against decentralized finance protocols…
Quantum-Proof Bitcoin Wallet: 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
On August 15, 2026, Fortune put a number on a fear that crypto holders had mostly waved off for years: more than $2 trillion in digital assets, nearly…
Bitcoin Hacks Hit $130M as Red Team Finds 85 Bugs [2026]
Bitcoin’s cold storage ecosystem is having its worst month in years. What started in late July as a firmware bug in Coinkite’s Coldcard hardware wallets has metastasized into…
Bridge Crypto Safely: 12 Steps After $328M in Hacks [2026]
Cross-chain bridges lost roughly $328.6 million across at least eight major exploits in the first seven months of 2026, according to a July 2026 bridge-hack roundup. On July…
BTCPay Server Bug Drains Lightning Nodes: Patch in 1 Day [2026]
A single authentication bug in BTCPay Server, the open-source payment processor that thousands of Bitcoin merchants run to accept Lightning payments without a middleman, turned into a live…
Bitcoin Lightning Node Setup: 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
Lightning Labs shipped LND v0.21-beta on June 11, 2026, tagged “Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down,” and it changed what a weekend project running a Bitcoin Lightning node…
Harmony ONE Crashes 37% as Hacker Mints 4B Tokens [2026]
Harmony’s ONE token lost more than a third of its value in a matter of hours on August 12, 2026, after an attacker found a way to mint…
Smart Contract Audit: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Fifteen DeFi exploits had already been logged by late March 2026, according to CoinPaprika’s 2026 exploit tracker, and the pace hasn’t slowed since. Chainalysis put a number on…
Coreum Bridge Hack Drains 200K XRP in 97 Minutes [2026]
An attacker needed just 97 minutes to empty a cross-chain bridge linking the XRP Ledger to the tx blockchain (formerly Coreum), draining roughly 199,916 XRP, worth about $200,000…
Seed Phrase Security: 12 Steps to an Offline Backup [2026]
A crypto seed phrase is the single string of words standing between you and every coin you own. Lose it, and your funds are gone forever. Expose it,…
