Decentralization used to be treated as a non-negotiable principle in crypto. Whether that principle is being eroded, or simply redefined by new players, is now an open question. Cr…
Yield farmers are trading their tractors for gallery passes. The same crowd that spent 2020 chasing triple-digit APY on food-themed tokens has rebranded, almost overnight, as conno…
Hindsight is a useful teacher, and on reflection this outlet may have judged Armor too harshly in its previous coverage. Where formal regulation is absent, reputation does much of …
An attacker made off with roughly $37.5 million by exploiting a debt-accounting flaw in Alpha Homora's vaults, using a chain of transactions elaborate enough that much of the commu…
An insurance protocol built to protect DeFi users instead stands accused of misappropriating a policyholder's payout, in a dispute marked by shifting statements, a quietly modified…
On February 9, 2021, two lesser-known decentralized finance projects, BT Finance and Growth DeFi, were drained within hours of each other, adding roughly $2.7 million combined to D…
Yearn's DAI v1 vault lost $11 million on February 5, 2021 in an arbitrage attack built around nine flash loans — a reminder that scale and track record don't make any protocol immu…
Before an Ethereum transaction is finalized on-chain, it sits briefly in the mempool — a public, unsettled state where pending trades are visible to anyone watching. That visibilit…
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask , and he will tell you the truth. Within days of launch, all 16,384 individually generated Hashmask cards had …
By early 2021, Dogecoin — a token that has functioned as crypto's meme barometer since 2013 — was experiencing a rally unlike any it had seen before. What made this surge distincti…
By late January 2021, Dogecoin — a token that had been part of crypto's meme culture since 2013 — was moving through a speculative surge unlike previous pumps it had seen. What set…
Online, retail traders staged their own version of "Occupy Wall Street," and the double standards of centralized finance were on full display. The GameStop rally was abruptly cut s…
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