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0xramp lets you easily buy and sell crypto using local peer-to-peer payment rails in a non-custodial way, leveraging the P2P.ME fiat-USDC marketplace and the NEAR Intents cross-chain protocol
A technical look at Quai Network’s Proof-of-Entropy-Minima consensus, hierarchical sharding, SOAP merged-mining, and the dual-token design of QUAI + energy-pegged QI with its cash-like privacy model.
Sometimes, backing up the private key is not enough for immediate access to funds. Many ERC-4337 smart accounts break the usual self-custody mental model. I built erc4337-driver to help with that.
Dash integrates Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool into its Evolution chain, bringing strong zero-knowledge privacy with fast sync, quick finality, and scalable performance powered by GroveDB. Learn how.
Understanding storage cost attacks and storage staking on NEAR. This is part of an educational series covering the NEAR Protocol architecture and a security checklist for NEAR smart contracts.
In this video I go through what is SPICE, why the Separation of Consensus and Execution matters for NEAR Protocol users, and give an easier explanation on what happens under the hood
Microsoft Security Intelligence discovered the Crypto Clipper malware, that uses the windows clipboard to steal seed phrases and private keys and swap copied addresses.
In this video and in my latest article (quoted), I take a close look at RHEA Finance, the dominant DeFi hub on NEAR, accounting for roughly 96.5% of all TVL on the NEAR ecosystem.
Rhea FInance is NEAR Protocol's leading DeFi hub and the ecosystem project that may benefit the most from NEAR's growth. A look at the app, products, RHEA token, lending APY and some data in Q2 2026.
I spent three years learning to hack and here's what I think is coming. Article published on HackenProof's blog, exploring my journey as a technical writer going security research.
