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ihtisham sudo - 5 Jul 2026

AI and Formal Verification in DeFi: Practical Uses and Limits

If you searched for "AI formal verification smart contracts", "formal verification in DeFi", or "can AI replace a smart contract audit", this article is for you...

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AISecurityFormal-Verification

ihtisham sudo - 3 Jul 2026

Morpho Risk Assessment: What Happens to $45M of WETH/USDC Debt if ETH Drops 20%?

Morpho Blue uses isolated lending markets...

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Vault-CurationSecurityMorpho

ihtisham sudo - 2 Jul 2026

Smart Contract Audit Price: How to Lower Cost Without Lowering Security

If you searched for "cheap smart contract audit", "smart contract audit price", or "how to prepare for a smart contract audit", this guide is for you...

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SecurityAuditSmart-Contract-Audit

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Setting Up a Canton Network Validator Node: A Complete Guide

A step-by-step walkthrough covering everything from prerequisites and network sponsorship, to Docker Compose deployment, authentication, and post-launch health checks everything you need to go from zero to a live Canton validator...

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CantonValidatorDaml

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Common Vulnerabilities in Daml Smart Contracts

A practical guide to Daml-specific security pitfalls drawn directly from the language specification, official documentation, and real patterns found in open-source Daml codebases, with vulnerable code, exploits, and fixes...

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DamlSmart ContractsSecurity

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

DeFi's Vault Curation Revolution

DeFi lending is changing in a way that mirrors the unbundling of traditional banking...

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Vault-CurationDeFiSecurity

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

ERC-8004: Building a Trust Layer for Agent Collaboration on Ethereum

In a decentralized world where autonomous agents (AI, bots, dApps) must collaborate across organizational boundaries, trust becomes the missing link...

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AIDevelopmentEthereum

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

A developer's guide from transition of EVM to Canton

If you have spent any real time building on the EVM, you have developed a mental model for how blockchains work: there is one shared ledger, every node replays every transaction, smart contracts live at addresses anyone can call, and privacy is an afterthought solved by ZK proofs bolted on later...

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CantonDamlBlockchain

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Fully Autonomous End to End Exploitation of a Privacy Protocol Using AI and Glider

This article shows how researchers at SC Audit Studio used LLMs and Glider to build an exploit for a smart contract vulnerability that could have compromised a privacy protocol...

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SecurityGliderZK

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

How to Build Yield-bearing Prediction Markets

Yield prediction markets, or yield-bearing prediction markets, are prediction markets that deposit the underlying collateral used to pay out bets into yield-generating strategies...

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SecurityDevelopmentPrediction

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

How to Integrate EIP-7002: Smart Contract-Controlled Staking Withdrawals

Ethereum’s staking withdrawals before Pectra were restrictive: This rigidity slowed down restaking adoption, added operational friction, and limited innovation in validator services...

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DevelopmentStakingEthereum

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

How to Integrate EIP-7702: Adding Smart Account Features to EOAs

Ethereum’s traditional model uses Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) that are simple...

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DevelopmentEthereumEIP

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

SCAS Liquidity Provider Program

At a time when markets feel less predictable and confidence in DeFi is at all-time lows, The need for dependable infrastructure has never been more apparent...

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AnnouncementSecurityLP

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Resolv Exploit: A Vault Curation Disaster

A breakdown of the Resolv Labs USR exploit, showing how a single compromised key, missing on-chain guards, and miscalculated vault share prices combined to extract $25M from a $500M+ protocol...

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SecurityExploitStablecoin

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Staking Smarter with Pectra: Implementing EIP-7251 Validator Consolidation

Imagine merging multiple validator keys into one to save operational costs, reduce node overhead, and increase capital efficiency...

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DevelopmentStakingEthereum

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Timelocks: Safety Delay or Upgrade Risk During Major Protocol Changes

Timelocks give communities time to review and react before protocol changes take effect, but major upgrades can turn that delay into risk...

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SecurityGovernanceOpSec

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Vercle introduces x402-mcp: Risks of handling payments between MCP tools using stablecoins

AI agents are becoming more capable at handling complex tasks, but a challenge arises when they try to use paid external services...

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AISecurityStablecoins

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Why Some Smart Contract Audits Are So Expensive (2025 Edition)

Audits are one of the biggest single line-items in a Web3 project’s budget...

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SecurityAuditResearch

ihtisham sudo - 26 Jun 2026

Launching a Token on Canton Network: A Beginner's Guide

A walkthrough covering how to think about token contracts in Daml, how to structure your files, write your first token, test it locally, and upload it to Canton, no blockchain experience required...

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CantonDamlToken

ihtisham sudo - 24 Jun 2026

How a Zero-Amount Call Could Lock Any LP's Funds in Perpetuals Protocols

Between April 14 and May 4, 2026, we ran a pre-audit consultation on Plether Perpetuals, a forex-indexed perps protocol on Arbitrum built around a USDC-denominated liquidity pool...

ihtisham sudo - 4 Jun 2026

OPSEC in Web3: How the Weakest Link Became the Most Expensive One

Web3 security used to be discussed mainly as a smart contract problem...

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Web3OpSecSecurity

linus lep - 21 May 2026

Post-Mortem on Venture Capital Failures In Web 3

The venture capital landscape for Web3 presents a profound paradox...

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Web3ResearchDeFi

ihtisham sudo - 21 May 2026

Writing Correct Daml Contracts on Canton

Daml provides a robust foundation for building distributed applications on Canton right out of the box...

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DamlCantonSmart Contracts

linus lep - 21 May 2026

OpSec Best Practices in DeFi 2026

Web3 protocols don’t usually get hacked from Solidity math errors alone, they get rekt when governance powers, upgrade keys, or treasury controls are mismanaged...

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SecurityOpSecGovernance