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.
Harmony ONE Crashes 37% as Hacker Mints 4B Tokens [2026]
Harmony’s ONE token lost more than a third of its value in a matter of hours on August 12, 2026, after an attacker found a way to mint…
Smart Contract Audit: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Fifteen DeFi exploits had already been logged by late March 2026, according to CoinPaprika’s 2026 exploit tracker, and the pace hasn’t slowed since. Chainalysis put a number on…
Coreum Bridge Hack Drains 200K XRP in 97 Minutes [2026]
An attacker needed just 97 minutes to empty a cross-chain bridge linking the XRP Ledger to the tx blockchain (formerly Coreum), draining roughly 199,916 XRP, worth about $200,000…
Seed Phrase Security: 12 Steps to an Offline Backup [2026]
A crypto seed phrase is the single string of words standing between you and every coin you own. Lose it, and your funds are gone forever. Expose it,…
Hardware Wallet Security: 12 Steps After $100M Hack [2026]
Coinkite’s Coldcard has spent years marketing itself as the paranoid option for Bitcoin self-custody: open source, air-gapped, no secure-element single point of failure. Then, on July 30, 2026,…
Ledger vs Trezor: $79 vs $59 Hardware Wallets [2026]
Buy a hardware wallet and you are choosing the lock for the only door an attacker cannot pick remotely. Two brands own that decision for most people: Ledger,…
Drift Protocol Hack: $285M Gone in 12 Minutes [2026]
On April 1, 2026, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralized derivatives platform, in a coordinated window that lasted about 12 minutes. Blockchain intelligence…
Hashing and Cryptography Explained
Cryptography is the science of protecting information so that only the intended parties can read it, verify it, or trust where it came from. It powers nearly everything…
