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USDC and SVB: The Digital Dollar Waiting for Monday
SVB's Friday failure trapped about 8% of USDC reserves. The digital dollar fell to 86 cents and waited on Washington, and on Monday morning.
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Bancor (BNT): The Token Sale That Outgrew Its Website
A token sale stretched to three hours after website problems. What did Bancor’s reserve-based AMM—and its power to freeze BNT—actually do?
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Fighting Sandwich Attacks With an Auction: CoW Protocol’s MEV Reversal
How Gnosis turned signed trade intents, solver competition and a cow-shaped pun into an MEV-resistant auction.
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Sanctioning Code: Tornado Cash's Delisting and Roman Storm's Split Verdict
Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash, but the Fifth Circuit held its immutable contracts were not blockable property under IEEPA. Roman Storm was convicted on only one of three counts.
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Mango Markets: "Highly Profitable Strategy" — How a $114M Exploiter Overturned His Conviction
A 30-minute $114M exploit, an open claim of a "legal trading strategy," and the dramatic judicial reversal of a federal conviction.
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Zcash’s Invisible Money Problem: The Orchard Bug
A four-year-old flaw could have minted invisible ZEC. Zcash's answer was not surveillance, but boundary accounting.
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The Pineapple Fund: 5,104 Bitcoins, $55 Million, and an Unrevealed Donor
Pine pledged 5,057 BTC (~$86M) on Reddit. Five months later, the fund reported 5,104 BTC ($55M) for 60 causes, leaving public donation records while remaining anonymous in the cited sources.
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