North Korea’s crypto heist playbook is expanding and DeFi keeps getting hit
aashura Less than three weeks after North Korea-linked hackers used social engineering to hit crypto trading firm Drifthackers tied…
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Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys
A breach at web infrastructure provider Vercel is forcing crypto teams to rotate API keys and do a…
Multichain Is Breaking DeFi – Smart Liquidity Research
Introduction For years, the dominant narrative in decentralised finance has been clear: more chains mean more scalability, more…
DeFi Won’t Just Bank the World—It Will Rebuild Local Economies
Introduction Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has largely been framed as a disruptive force targeting traditional financial institutions—banks, exchanges, and…
Anyone Can Print Credit Now
The Rise of Permissionless Credit Creation Introduction For centuries, the ability to create and extend credit has been…
The Hidden War for Speed in DeFi
In decentralized finance, everyone talks about yield, liquidity, and tokenomics—but almost no one talks about time. Yet beneath…
DeFi Is Becoming a Second Internet
For decades, the internet has been a giant messaging system. Data moves. Requests route. Packets find their way…
When Bots Start Farming Each Other: The Next DeFi War
The original “Curve wars” looked chaotic on the surface—protocols bribing veCRV holders, governance drama, and bribe markets forming…
DeFi Isn’t Finance — It’s the Internet of Capital
For years, we’ve been describing decentralized finance (DeFi) as an alternative financial system—a better bank, a faster exchange,…
Stablecoins Are the Real DeFi Infrastructure
“DeFi isn’t built on ETH—it’s built on dollars.” That line sounds provocative—almost heretical in a space obsessed with…