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.
Reentrancy Testing: Slither + Foundry Catch Bugs in 12 Steps [2026]
A DeFi protocol loses money to a reentrancy bug almost every month in 2026, and the pattern barely changes. GMX V1 lost $42 million in July 2025 to…
Trezor, SafePal Breaches Expose 53,487 Wallet Owners [2026]
Trezor told 13,689 customers on August 13, 2026 that their names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses had leaked. Not because anyone breached Trezor’s servers. Not because…
Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Setup: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Exchange hacks did not slow down in 2026, they compounded. Coinsbuy lost more than $8 million on August 9. Term Labs lost $8.5 million to a governance exploit…
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…
