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.
Term Finance Loses $8.5M as August DeFi Hacks Hit 17 [2026]
A DeFi lending protocol called Term Finance lost roughly $8.5 million in a governance attack on August 24, 2026, after an attacker seized control of its on-chain voting…
Layer 2 Scaling Setup: Cut Gas Fees 99%, 12 Steps [2026]
Ethereum mainnet gas fees can still hit several dollars for a routine swap during busy hours. Layer 2 rollups like Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism now handle the same…
Sandbox Bridge Exploit Mints 14.9B SAND, $49B Face Value [2026]
An attacker minted roughly 14.9 billion unbacked SAND tokens across two wallet addresses this week, exploiting a cross-chain bridge that connects The Sandbox metaverse platform to Base and…
Verify Stablecoin Reserves: 10 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
On August 13, 2026, Tether announced that KPMG U.S. had finished the company’s first full independent audit, an unqualified opinion covering fiscal year 2025. Reserves beat liabilities by…
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,…
