Web 3.0

In most of the largest oracle exploits, the oracle reported its market accurately after the attacker had moved that market. A lending protocol stays safe only while the cheapest way to create and hold a harmful price costs more than the value that price can unlock. The 2020 bZx exploit would have paid the same […]...

Smart contract exploits cost $905.4 million across 122 protocols during 2025. Cetus lost $223 million and Balancer roughly $128 million, and in both cases the broken code sat outside the scope of the audits covering those protocols. Automation is fast and partial, and the best three-tool combination in a 2025 evaluation caught 76.78% of annotated […]...

MEV didn’t disappear, it migrated. Every public-mempool cleanup pushed extraction into private order flow, builder markets, or spam, so the rent just changed hands. Private routing helps and isn’t a fix. A Dec 2025 study found 3,126 privately-routed victims sandwiched in two months for $409k, and ~40-54% of victims then migrate to private routing anyway. […]...

Solstice’s fundamentals are real: USX is overcollateralized with on-chain proof-of-solvency, eUSX claims a three-year positive-return record, contracts cleared three Halborn audits, and Anchorage Digital plus 20-plus institutions are allocated, yet its December 2025 token sale failed to clear a $4M soft cap. The Season 1 SLX claim is what detonated: a 0.075 SOL ($7) fee […]...

The biggest losses of 2023-2026 broke no cryptography. Bybit’s $1.5bn drain ran through a sound multisig and clean contracts; the attacker only changed what the signers saw. Four mechanisms recur and braid together: poisoned software supply chains, tampered signing interfaces, laundered authority via approvals and off-chain signatures, and privileged paths hidden in contracts, proxies and [&...

The permissioned coordination ledger (WFP’s Building Blocks) scaled into the hundreds of millions, and its strongest payoff is preventing duplicate assistance, while the public-chain stablecoin rail that got the headlines (UNHCR on Stellar) has moved $4.6m since 2022 and remains a pilot. Stablecoins earn their place narrowly, in corridors where banking is absent, illegal, dangerous, [&hellip...

Web3 changes the plumbing of space financing (ticket size, settlement, incentive distribution) without touching the economics. Space stays capital-intensive and dependent on spectrum, launch access, and government customers. The scale gap is structural. PIF managing north of $900bn and negotiating a ~$5bn SpaceX anchor sits against MoonDAO’s $184,000 deployed across all of 2025, roughly five...

Prediction markets are increasingly regulated, but the law is still unsettled, and the Van Dyke case made insider-trading-style enforcement a real risk....

Any unsolicited token in your wallet should be treated as hostile until proven otherwise. A dedicated burner wallet plus a hardware device is the baseline setup for airdrop farming, not a luxury. The most expensive mistake in airdrops is approving unlimited spending on a contract you didn’t read. Real airdrops never ask for your seed […]...

Non-technical roles now dominate the landscape. Recent 2025/2026 data indicates that roughly 74% of job postings in the Bitcoin and wider Web3 ecosystem are for non-developer positions. You don’t need to start from scratch. Traditional skills in marketing, writing, legal compliance, and project management translate directly into high-paying Web3 roles. In the decentralized world, a […...

Banks are commercializing the parts of crypto that look like existing bank businesses. Custody, payments, tokenized securities, settlement infrastructure. They’re not broadly betting on crypto prices. The stablecoin market hit $317 billion in April 2026 after growing more than 50% during 2025. That number spooked banks more than any crypto price cycle ever did, because […]...

Blockchain handles identity, ownership, payments, and programmable access in social media really well. High-volume posting, moderation, ranking, and mutable social state, not so much. Every serious decentralized social project has converged on hybrid designs. Bluesky uses no blockchain at all. Farcaster commits only a tiny fraction of actions on-chain. Lens uses rollup infrastructure plus separate...

The token isn’t the attack. Your reaction to it is. On Bitcoin, dusting is a surveillance game. On Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain, it’s bait for theft. Address poisoning is the dirtiest variant going. Someone slips a lookalike address into your transaction history and waits for you to copy the wrong one. One curious click, […]...

With nearly 1 billion active users, Telegram is positioned to create one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges by integrating trading directly into its messaging interface, removing the need for third-party apps. The company is aggressively investing in the TON blockchain, collaborating with global experts in hubs like Barcelona to build a high-speed infrastructure capable […]...

RWA tokenization is now real infrastructure. The sector has moved past pilots and is now being used for actual treasury products, tokenized equities, and on-chain settlement. Ondo’s edge lies in its compliance-first design. Ondo uses offshore SPVs, regulated broker-dealers, and legal wrappers to bring traditional assets on-chain without ignoring securities law. USDY and OUSG serve […]...

AI relocates DAO power. Control shifts from token holders to engineers running models, proving hardware, and agent infrastructure. ZK-ML works, but only for slow, batch governance tasks. Daily voting weights and legitimacy scoring are viable. Real-time trading and execution remain impractical and expensive. Autonomous agents require human-controlled multisig, or they will fail catastrophically. An...

SLX allocation is driven by activity. YieldVault usage, liquidity provision, and time-locking mean more than passive holding. Multipliers stack. Combining USX locks, LP positions, daily balances, and loyalty bonuses produces exponential point growth. eUSX lets you earn yield while farming the airdrop, keeping capital productive instead of idle. The strongest strategy uses both USX and […]...

Solstice focuses on delta-neutral yield, not speculative returns. Everything is built around market-neutral income. USX routes stablecoin yield back to users instead of issuers, backed 1:1 with on-chain reserve verification. YieldVault uses funding arbitrage, hedged staking, and tokenized Treasuries to generate consistent returns. SLX distribution favors real participation. Long-term users, liquid...

Airdrops in 2026 reward behavior. Consistency matters more than speed. Most valuable airdrops are retroactive and not clearly advertised in advance. Chasing every airdrop usually leads to low returns and high frustration. Security mistakes cost more than missed rewards. Separate wallets and careful approvals are crucial. Airdrops work best as a side effect of real […]...

Summary Wallet adoption is rising fast as crypto ownership expands, pushing self-custody tools into the mainstream. Keyless recovery and MPC security have replaced traditional seed phrases for many users, reducing common points of failure. Mobile and browser wallets now double as trading, staking, and NFT hubs, blurring the line between wallets and exchanges. Hardware wallets […]...

Wrappers pull on-chain trading into the same app flow as spot and perps, so people trade faster and think less. A flat wrapper fee looks simple, but the real bill comes from churn, slippage, and bad exits on thin liquidity. “Smart money” and trending feeds create herds, herds create late entries, late entries create bags. […]...

Early in 2025, we published our Crypto Market Predictions report. It covered adoption, market size, regulation, geopolitics, AI, DeFi, and how power in the crypto market was likely to shift over the year. Enough time has passed to line those predictions up against what actually happened. Some calls landed, and some didn’t. Others pointed in […]...

A VPN protects your traffic and hides your IP, it does not erase on-chain activity or replace good OpSec. VPNs are useful on public WiFi, shared networks, and for basic IP hygiene around exchanges, DEXs, and tools. Using a VPN to bypass geo-blocks or constantly change countries can trigger KYC checks, freezes, or bans. You […]...

HMRC treats crypto as taxable property, with gains above the £3,000 allowance and most rewards falling into Capital Gains Tax or Income Tax. Non-reporting covers not registering, not filing, or leaving out wallets and exchanges, and can trigger tax-geared penalties on top of late filing and late payment charges. Offshore exchanges and DeFi are no […]...