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Polymarket has tapped Chainalysis to layer Wall Street-calibre compliance and monitoring infrastructure onto its…
Modular chains split the four jobs of a blockchain into separate layers; monolithic chains do all four at once. Neither design has clearly won, and the trend in 2024–2026 is blurring the line.
The proposed ontology tries to put formal definitions around what an investigator means by a 'cluster' of addresses, drawing on the Sterlingov trial as proof the methodology can hold up in court.
Chain abstraction promises to hide the multi-chain mess behind a single click, but today's versions depend on new trust assumptions around solvers and relayers that you should understand first.
NEAR pairs sharded execution with chain signatures and an intents-based DEX. Here is what actually works, what is still vapor, and why DeFi activity stays thin.
A blockchain is a public ledger that everyone shares and no single party can rewrite. Here is how the chain of blocks, nodes and consensus actually fit together.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
Wallet drainers are the dominant on-chain theft tool of 2024-2026 — malicious smart contracts that drain a wallet the moment you sign a single innocuous-looking approval. Here is how they work, the multi-million-dollar incidents, and how to stop one before you sign.
Flare is a Layer-1 built to give non-smart-contract chains like XRP and DOGE a DeFi life, anchored by an oracle system that looks nothing like Chainlink and a real airdrop history.
Grid trading automates buy-low / sell-high orders across a price range. Here is how it works, when it shines, and when it bleeds.
Hyperliquid runs a fully on-chain central limit orderbook for perps. Here's how matching, funding, and liquidations actually work under the hood.
Chainlink is the decentralized oracle network that brings off-chain data into smart contracts. Here is what it does, what LINK is for, and what to weigh.
Monad pitches an EVM-compatible high-throughput L1 for AI agents. Here is what the token mechanics, allocation, and narrative actually imply for traders.
A $15M Bitcoin security consortium forms the same week a cross-chain bridge is drained twice. The ledger tells a story of two very different on-chain maturities.
Uniswap v4 swaps hundreds of pools for one singleton contract and lets devs attach code "hooks" to every pool action. More flexibility, but a bigger smart-contract attack surface for LPs.
Curve is the decentralized exchange built for assets that should trade close to each other — stablecoins and pegged assets — with tiny slippage and concentrated fees.
BlackRock's BUIDL and peers sit behind a stack most people never see: qualified custodians, transfer agents, whitelisted wallets, and dual-control signing.
RLUSD is a US dollar stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York trust charter, live on XRP Ledger and Ethereum, and built for cross-border payments and tokenized assets.
Hooks let pools run custom logic, but most strategies aren't new. Dynamic fees, on-chain limit orders, and MEV protection show real value; social experiments often don't.
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
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Marco De Santis