What actually stays private on Midnight! (A builder's mental model)
Intro Coming from the XRPL, the challenge for me has been grasping what actually stays hidden on a privacy chain and how they acomplish that. On a tra…
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Building a Polymarket Trading Bot: Architecture, Execution, and Risk Management
How I built a real-time automated trading system that monitors BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP prediction markets and executes trades based on short-lived pric…
Pectra & Fusaka Ethereum Upgrade MEV Impact 2026: Searcher Adaptation Guide
Answer first — Pectra and Fusaka are the two Ethereum hard fork upgrades shaping MEV in 2026. Pectra activated in 2025 with three MEV-relevant EIPs: E…
How to Detect MEV in Your Trades 2026: A Practical Guide
Answer first — To detect MEV against your own trades in 2026, follow a four-step forensic process: (1) pull the transaction receipt and identify the b…
ShadowFeed Weekly #1: IronWorm npm Attack, $36M Humanity Protocol Hack, Microsoft Repos Compromised
ShadowFeed Weekly #1 | Web3 Security Intelligence June 5 — June 11, 2026 ShadowFeed is a real-time Web3 security intelligence service for developers a…
What I shipped in one Claude Code session: a real-time mempool rug-detector pipeline
I run RektRadar , a real-time scam-token detector for Ethereum. This is an honest build-log of one session with Claude Code (the Fable model) where I …
Access Control Bugs: The #1 Cause of Smart Contract Hacks This Year
Every year the post-mortems pile up, and every year the same category sits at the top of the loss chart. Not reentrancy. Not oracle manipulation. Acce…
Foundry Invariant Testing: Finding Bugs Fuzzing Can't
Your fuzz tests pass. Your unit tests pass. Coverage is green. Then the protocol goes live and someone drains the vault with a five-transaction sequen…
The Auditor's AI Workflow: How I Use LLMs Without Trusting Them
I use an LLM on every contract I review. I also assume it is lying to me until I prove otherwise. That sounds contradictory, but it is the only way to…
I Built a Polymarket Trading Bot That Tries to Capture the Last 60 Seconds of Market Inefficiency
Over the last few days, I've been building and testing a Polymarket trading bot focused on BTC and ETH 15-minute markets. The idea is surprisingly sim…
Creating a MiniDex
┌──────────────────────┐ │ MiniDEXFactory │ └──────────┬───────────┘ │ createPair(tokenA, tokenB) via Yul CREATE2 │ ▼ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ MiniD…
We thought we caught every scam token. A dev.to post showed us a blind spot.
We run a real-time scam-token detector for Ethereum. It analyzes new ERC-20s, simulates buys and sells to catch honeypots, clusters deployers and fund…
[Sofi_Log #016] Longevity Protocol: Refactoring Human Uptime via Biohacking
[Sofi_Log: #016] Status: Clear skies, piercing UV rays (UV Index 11) / 1 THB = 4.25 JPY (2026 forecast) Project: sofi.works [Phase: Longevity Protocol…
What I Learned as a Real Working Developer
My name is Furqan Akbar. I am a Web Developer and Linux Server Administrator from Srinagar, Kashmir, India. I work as a Server Manager at Elyspace ful…
DIFP Nostr: Fitting 6,000+ Products into a Single 64 KB Event
TL;DR — The DIFP protocol was designed to be data-compact and geo-aware from day one. We recently discovered it maps almost perfectly onto the Nostr e…
Drift Protocol $285M Exploit - North Korean APT Attack on Solana
On April 1, 2026, Solana's largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange Drift Protocol suffered an attack, losing approximately $285 million . Thi…
A Beginner-Friendly Mental Model for Bitcoin Transactions
Bitcoin can look simple from the outside: paste an address, choose an amount, send. Under that simple interface are several concepts that are useful f…
How Solana Wallets Work: Private Keys, Public Keys, and Security
A Solana wallet is built around a cryptographic keypair: a private key and a public key. The private key proves ownership and signs transactions, whil…
DKBK Core is a 100-line state machine that turns any agreement into verifiable math — no blockchain, no tokens, no complexity.'
"Every app eventually needs to answer one question: 'Who agreed to what, and can you prove it?' Voting, payments, contracts, permissions — all the sam…
Why an AI Agent Should Not Be Treated as Proof: Building EllipticZero Research Lab
In security review, large language models are useful, but they also create a dangerous temptation: the output often sounds more certain than the evide…
Five Months, 110,000 Lines of Rust, and Zero Smart Contracts: A Technical Tour of NOVAI
I have published five posts arguing why an AI-native L1 should exist. This is not one of those. This is the technical walkthrough. Below is what NOVAI…
AI Smart Contract Review: The Finding Is Not the Audit
AI Smart Contract Review Disclosure: AI tools were used for source collection and editorial review. The article was written by a human author, who che…
Beyond onlyOwner: Fixing Logic Vulnerabilities in DeFi (A RetoSwap Case Study)
Logic vulnerabilities are often the most dangerous bugs in DeFi. Unlike reentrancy or overflow errors, they don't always trigger standard static analy…
Agent Payment Stablecoin Fallbacks: Do Not Retry the Changed Quote
Agent Payment Stablecoin Fallbacks Disclosure: AI tools were used for source collection and editorial review. The article was written by a human autho…
Inside the XRPL AI Red Team: What We've Found and Fixed
Back in March, we announced that Ripple was standing up a dedicated AI-assisted red team to continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the XRP Ledger. T…
HackCanton Season 1: Canton Builders, Demos, Winners
Some hackathons are built like fireworks. Bright launch. Loud countdown. Forty-eight hours of chaos. A few demos. A few prizes. Then the repo goes qui…
A .NET Dinosaur in Web3. Day 16 - ERC-20 Token & ICO
A .NET Dinosaur in Web3. Day 16 - ERC-20 Token & ICO 😈 Day 4 of 7: Building Own Currency… Cryptocurrency! Day 4 it’s exactly give me some practice…
What Is Identity on Solana? (For Web2 Developers)
As a Web2 developer, you already have a comfortable mental model of what an "identity" is. When you build a simple app, a user's identity is just a ro…
x402 for AI APIs: Follow the Second HTTP Request
AI x Crypto Systems disclosure: this article was prepared with AI assistance as an editorial helper. The ideas, facts, code, sources, and conclusions …
Sofi Log #001: Thailand's Tourism Tax & the 180-Day AI Surveillance Wall
[May 2026 Build] The Resurrection of Thailand's "Tourism Tax" & The AI-Monitored "180-Day Wall": A Survival Architecture for Engineers & Inves…