We told you all summer: September was the time to lock in. We did. Robinhood Chain, airdrop farming, the Arc launch, and steadily DCAing into my ZEC, NEAR, and HYPE positions. Did you? Honestly, I haven't had this much fun being active in crypto...
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Claude Trading Bot Scam: Fake YouTube Tutorials Drain $517K
A wave of fake YouTube tutorials promised viewers a Claude-powered crypto trading bot that prints money on autopilot. Instead of a bot, victims deployed a wallet drainer with their own hands. Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs traced the...
SEC Tokenized Stocks Are Here: Meme Coins Rally as Wall Street Moves Onchain
The last few days, all eyes around here have been on the Arc Chain launch. Obviously, we were in the trenches: trading, adding liquidity to pools, testing new protocols and trying to spot the next runner before everyone else did. But while Arc...
STM32 Entropy Vulnerability: The Fake Trezor Email You Need to Delete
Last night an email hit my inbox with the subject line "Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability." The sender read noreply@trezor.io, the real domain, and it sailed through every authentication check Gmail runs. According to the...
Liquid Network Hack: “Whitehats” Pull $320 Million in Bitcoin From Blockstream’s Sidechain
Bitcoin's oldest sidechain just watched 95% of its reserves walk out the door in a single transaction. On September 6, someone drained roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $320 million, from the federation wallet backing Blockstream's Liquid Network. The...
Seed Phrase Passphrase Explained: The Cheapest Security Upgrade in Crypto
One extra word. That's the difference between the Coldcard victims who lost everything and the users who kept their Bitcoin. A seed phrase passphrase, sometimes called the 25th word, turned out to be the cheapest insurance policy in crypto history....
Why Is Crypto Privacy Making a Comeback? Onchain Privacy Explained
For years, one of crypto's biggest selling points was transparency. Every transaction could be verified. Anyone could check the blockchain. Nobody had to trust a bank or payment processor to tell them what happened. That's still incredibly...
Cronos Rollback: The $75M Tectonic Exploit That Got Erased
Blockchains are supposed to be immutable. Cronos just showed the world that immutability is more of a guideline than a rule. Over the weekend, an attacker manipulated a near-dead token, borrowed roughly $75 million in real assets against it, and...
Was Ledger Hacked? The OneKey Bug Claim Explained
My timeline spent all of yesterday screaming that Ledger got hacked. Screenshots of a tweet from a rival wallet CEO, panicked replies asking whether to move funds, the usual chorus of "hardware wallets are dead." After the Coldcard summer, people...
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