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$4.6M in Bugs vs. $100M+ in Real Hacks: Why AI Isn’t Ready to Audit Web3
One of the major AI model developers, Anthropic, has published a report describing how its models scanned smart contracts for vulnerabilities - and uncovered issues that could have allowed attackers to steal around $4.6 million. That number sounds impressive at first. But remember my post from yesterday about the Yearn Finance smart-contract exploit? That single incident alone involved losses...
Yearn’s Hack Was Reversed. Now What?
Yearn Finance was hacked - and no one expected it. For years it has been seen as one of the benchmark protocols for yield farming. It stood at the frontline of the DeFi boom in 2020, and even today, according to Coingecko, its governance token remains the most expensive on the market. But history and reputation don’t guarantee invulnerability. The protocol...
Why CEX-Sourced Crypto Is Considered Clean
In crypto compliance there is an unspoken rule: if funds come from a large centralized exchange (CEX), they are treated as clean. AML services, such as Chainalysis, Crystal, or AMLBot, usually mark such transactions in green and assign them a low risk score. However, this logic looks counterintuitive once you start following the news of the last few years. The...
Ripple Builds RLUSD - Ethereum Gets the Supply
According to DeFiLlama, the total supply of RLUSD stablecoins issued on Ethereum has surpassed 1 billion. At first glance, nothing unusual here: * RLUSD has been promoted exceptionally well, * and stablecoins in general are one of the strongest segments of the crypto market right now. Everyone uses them - even people who remain skeptical about everything else in this...
Is the November 28 Magic Gone?
Today is November 28. A year ago, I wrote about how this date seems to have a strange, almost magical influence on Bitcoin’s price. Many of the levels we later remembered as multi-year tops or bottoms were reached within a narrow window - roughly three weeks before or after this date. More precisely: November 28 ± 19 days. Back then I joked that if Bitcoin didn’t set a new...
Why S&P Called USDT "Weak" - And Why That’s Not the Main Issue
The recent S&P Global downgrade of USDT’s stability rating feels like theater more than analysis. S&P Global announced that USDT, issued by Tether, has been assigned the lowest possible rank - 5 (weak). * But it wasn’t downgraded because Tether arbitrarily shuts down support for entire blockchains and then later states that redemption of remaining tokens on those chains will no...
Coinbase Ventures Bets on Privacy, The Big Question Is Why
Coinbase Ventures has published a list of focus areas it considers the most promising for funding in 2026. Among the crypto-related ideas, they highlighted: * RWA perpetuals, * exchanges that serve as their own market makers, * trading terminals for prediction markets, * perpetual futures markets where collateral can earn yield without closing a leveraged position, * uncollateralized...
Monad Just Dropped 4.4 Million Tokens - But to Whom, and Why?
The team behind the Monad blockchain just sent out 4.4 million MON - the network's native token - to exactly 4.4 million addresses. They simply scanned for wallets that had recently interacted with other EVM chains, and gave them 1 MON so they could try the Monad network (you need MON to pay gas). This kind of gas drop isn't new. We've seen...
Near-Perfect Predictions on Polymarket - Explained
A curious thing popped up on Polymarket: a single trader whose success rate has been sitting near 100% throughout his entire activity. You can check his profile here. He places all kinds of bets - sometimes just a few dozen dollars, sometimes tens of thousands. At this pace, he has already made more than $428,000 in profits since the start of the...
Why Not Burn All the Tokens? Part II
A week ago, I noticed a curious trend: many crypto projects that once eagerly minted and sold their own tokens are now announcing plans to buy them back and burn them. What’s going on? Could it be that critics were right all along — that these tokens were never really needed? If you haven’t read Part I, check it out first —...
