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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Keep up with the latest news on best development practices, new stablecoin tech, and security considerations.
linus lep - 21 May 2026
Post-Mortem on Venture Capital Failures In Web 3
The venture capital landscape for Web3 presents a profound paradox...
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...
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...
linus lep - 5 May 2026
Fully Autonomous End to End Exploitation of a Privacy Protocol Using AI and Glider
The following article demonstrates how researchers at SC Audit Studio managed to fully autonomously exploit a smart contract vulnerability using LLMs and Glider, that would have allowed a complete compromise of a privacy protocol...
linus lep - 14 Apr 2026
Common Vulnerabilities in Daml Smart Contracts
A deep-dive into 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...
linus lep - 14 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
How AI and Formal Verification can Revolutionize Smart Contract Security
The decentralized finance world has a fundamental problem: once code is deployed to the blockchain, it's permanent...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
DeFi's Vault Curation Revolution
The decentralized finance landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation that mirrors the unbundling of traditional banking...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
A developer's guide from transition of EVM to Canton
If you have spent any real time in the EVM ecosystem, 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
How to Integrate EIP-7702: Empowering EOAs with Smart Account Features
Ethereum’s traditional model uses Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs) that are simple...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
Pre-Audits: Maximizing the Value of Your Smart Contract Audit
A formal security audit is one of the most critical, high-stakes, and expensive milestones in a protocol's lifecycle...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
What Happens to $45M of Morpho Debt When ETH Falls 20%?
Recent market volatility (February 2026 saw ETH drop ~20% in days) reminds us that liquidation risk isn't theoretical, it's imminent...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
Resolv Exploit: A Vault Curation Disaster
A deep-dive into the Resolv Labs USR exploit, how a single compromised key, missing on-chain guards, and miscalculated vault share prices combined to extract $25M from a $500M+ protocol...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 2026
Timelocks: Unlocking Safety or Locking in Risk During Major Protocol Upgrades
While timelocks are heralded as a critical security primitive in Web3, providing a crucial delay for community review and reaction before protocol changes take effect, they are not without their own set of risks, especially when it comes to major protocol upgrades...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 13 Apr 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...
ihtisham sudo - 5 Mar 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...
linus lep - 3 Mar 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...
