In the time-honored tradition of Bored Ape Yacht Club holders losing their shirts to scams, another hacker has managed to fleece the masses. There’s a twist this time, though: the official Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram was compromised. The attacker posted a link to a fake BAYC Metaverse land drop, and hoovered up NFTs from
Klima DAO is trying to help solve Climate Change through bringing carbon credit offsets on chain and creating a marketplace for…
Welcome back to Vyper for Beginners! This lesson covers dynamic arrays, a key data type that was recently introduced with Vyper 0.3.2. This builds off the previous lessons, so please review the series below if you need a refresher or encounter anything here that is unfamiliar. NOTE: Vyper 0.3.3 was recently released, which fixes a
Refundable auctions are a hot topic today on Twitter. There was the wildly successful Anata NFT drop… and then there was the AkuDreams auction. The auction required users to transfer funds with their bid, and allowed them to claim a refund afterwards if the Dutch auction price dropped below their bid. However, a bug in
A Bill proposed in the United States House of Representatives asks for the United States Treasury to develop an alternative to a CBDC. The proposal comes as a response to the continued work the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury undergo to develop a CBDC. This is a proposal for a “digital equivalent” to physical dollars.
Virtually all lending/borrowing protocols are permissioned. Governance or developer intervention is required to support new tokens, etc. There is an important exception to this rule: Fuse. In this article, we’re going to to cover a high level overview of the Fuse protocol ecosystem. Buckle up, kiddos. We’re going on a trip. First, a bit of
Beanstalk DAO, the innovative stable coin, was exploited for over $75 million dollars. The exploit used a hole in the governance…
Welcome back to Vyper for Beginners! This lesson covers interfaces, the primary gateway that your smart contract will use to share data with other deployed contracts on Ethereum (or compatible blockchains). This builds off the previous lessons, so please review the series below if you need a refresher or encounter anything here that is unfamiliar.
There’s a lot to keep up with in crypto, and token standards are no different. The industry is still young, and best practices are still evolving. You may already be familiar with the ERC-20 fungible token and the ERC-721 nonfungible token (NFT) standards. But wait, there’s more! What is an ERC-1155 token, and why do
Truflation is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, on-chain inflation index that uses Chainlink oracle to provide a better inflation index than CPI. The consumer price index (CPI) just hit a 40-year high of 8.5% for March 2022. However, even with the roaring CPI numbers, there is ample arguments that the CPI number is manipulated downwards. (See this
I recently did a guest post for the BowTiedBull Substack, diving into how tokens work and common user pitfalls. One of the most requested followups was how to manually revoke token approvals without Etherscan, in case one of the helpers like Etherscan’s approval tool or Revoke.cash went down. The answer to that question is simple,
BLOCKS DAO LLC is trying to move the world onto the blockchain by offering off-the-shelf code & multi-sig wallet setup as a service, but…
Last week, social experiment The Tweet DAO took crypto Twitter by storm. I covered the story soon after the project’s launch (read here), and there was already plenty of material to write on. The project was still young though, and anything could happen, so I followed, and eagerly awaited future developments. Here’s what’s going on
For better or worse, the cryptocurrency community lives on Twitter. The bird app remains the best place to find alpha, hear about hacks, and get a sense of the community gestalt. Below are the 15 best Crypto Twitter accounts that are a must follow. There are some incredibly high-value follows that have a long history of
The Hashmasks Twitter and Discord accounts have been HACKED. Do not engage with any links they post.
Welcome back to Vyper for Beginners! This lesson covers the basic structure of a Vyper contract, a review of Vyper’s variable types, Vyper’s built-in flow control logic (including how it differs from Python), and wraps up with a simple “Hello World” contract that you can deploy on a test net or a local fork. This
What is the Tweet DAO? The novel social media NFT project is a collection of 1000 NFTs, each of which gives the holder the right to post a single tweet from the DAO’s handle every 24 hrs. The phenomenon has taken crypto twitter by storm, with the handle amassing over 5,000 followers over a few
Welcome back to Vyper for Beginners! This lesson will cover my recommended toolkit for writing, compiling, testing, and finally deploying a Vyper contract. It’s no surprise that the most fully-featured toolkit for Vyper is written in Python. Brownie is, by their own description: A Python-based development and testing framework for smart contracts targeting the Ethereum