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.
Nomic Bridge Bug Freezes 36% of Osmosis allBTC [2026]
A Bitcoin bridge exploit that most of the crypto market didn’t even notice as it happened is now reshaping how the Cosmos ecosystem talks about wrapped BTC. On…
Mine Bitcoin at Home: ASIC Setup in 10 Steps [2026]
Bitcoin’s network difficulty sat at roughly 127.45T in mid-September 2026, with total network hashrate hovering just under one zettahash per second depending on which dashboard you check. That…
Base L2 Tops $14.4B TVL on Just $8,800 in ETH Fees [2026]
Base, the Ethereum layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase, closed out the 30 days ending September 7, 2026 as the largest rollup in crypto by total value locked.…
Sandwich Attack Testing: 12 Foundry Steps, $60M Lost [2026]
A sandwich attack is one of the few DeFi exploits that doesn’t need a bug. It works perfectly against a contract with flawless logic, because it targets the…
Tether Audit Confirms $6.8B, Buffer Halves in Q2 [2026]
Tether spent a decade fielding the same question: where is the money, really. On August 17, 2026, the company finally handed over an answer that came with a…
Trezor Safe 7 TROPIC01 Flaw: Lock Down in 12 Steps [2026]
In June 2026, Ledger’s in-house security team, Donjon, published a laser fault injection attack against the TROPIC01 chip inside every Trezor Safe 7, one of the more closely…
Symbiosis Bug Mints $46B Fake BTC, Nets $336K [2026]
A cross-chain bridge just proved how much fake money a single bug can create, and how little of it actually matters once the attacker tries to cash out.…
Run a Bitcoin Lightning Node: LND Setup in 12 Steps [2026]
Running your own Bitcoin Lightning node used to be a hobbyist flex. In 2026 it is closer to a security decision. The public Lightning graph is thinning (roughly…
Hemi Reentrancy Bug Drains 124.5M Tokens for $255K [2026]
A ten-year-old bug just resurfaced on a Bitcoin layer-2 network, and it barely made a dent. On September 7, 2026, an attacker drained 124.5 million HEMI tokens from…
Bitcoin Multisig Wallet Setup With Sparrow: 12 Steps [2026]
A single hardware wallet protects you from remote hackers. It does nothing if you drop it in a house fire, lose the seed phrase, or get hit by…
