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.
Tether’s First Audit: KPMG Confirms $6.8B Surplus [2026]
Tether spent more than a decade fending off questions about what actually backs its stablecoin. On August 13, 2026, the company handed over an answer that carries real…
Solo Bitcoin Mining Setup: 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
Bitcoin’s network hashrate sat around 920 EH/s in mid-August 2026, according to Hashrate Index’s August 17 roundup, with difficulty at 127.48T after the August 8 adjustment. Those numbers…
Boltz Founders Quit 10 Days After AI Bridge Shutdown [2026]
Boltz, the open-source bridge that lets Bitcoin holders swap between the mainchain, the Lightning Network, and the Liquid sidechain, went dark on August 3, 2026. The non-custodial service…
Bitcoin Cold Storage Setup: 12 Steps, 60 Min [2026]
Bitcoin sitting on an exchange is one outage, one insider, or one API bug away from becoming someone else’s problem. Cold storage crypto setups fix that by moving…
Best Crypto Cards for Q4 2026: Fees, Rewards & Availability Compared
Quick Answer For Q4 2026, MEXC Card ranks first, particularly for USDT holders, with 4% – 10% cashback in USDT alongside a separate 7% APR flexible earning product.…
Maya Protocol Hack Drains $1.7M, CACAO Crashes 88.7% [2026]
A cross-chain liquidity protocol lost most of its value in a single afternoon on August 18, 2026. Maya Protocol, a THORChain fork that routes swaps between Bitcoin, Ethereum,…
Arbitrum Bridge Setup: 10 Steps, 40 Min [2026]
Ethereum mainnet gas fees have settled into a strange rhythm in 2026: cheap during quiet hours, brutal the moment any popular mint or airdrop hits. A basic ETH…
Coinsbuy Hack Drains $8M as July Losses Hit $247M [2026]
A crypto exchange lost more than $8 million in under an hour on August 9, 2026, and the trick behind it is what has security researchers talking two…
MEV Bot Protection Setup: 4 Chains, 12 Steps [2026]
Every swap you submit on a public blockchain sits in a waiting room called the mempool before a validator picks it up. Bots watch that waiting room around…
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…
