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.
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…
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…
