What are Hiro HyperChains? A Scaling Solution for STX 

On Wednesday, February 23 2022, Hiro Hyperchains were announced. Hiro Hyperchains are a new, open-source development coming to the Stacks (STX) blockchain in summer 2022. STX brought smart contracts to Bitcoin a little over a year ago. Hyperchains are the first proposed scaling solution for the STX blockchain. As the transaction volume on the STX blockchain has increased, users … Read more

LARGEST EVER Coinbase Bug Bounty: 250k 

Twitter user Tree_of_Alpha earned 250k in the largest ever Coinbase Bug Bounty by finding a potentially “market-nuking” flaw. Tree_of_Alpha found an exploit in Coinbase’s Advanced Trading feature. This exploit allowed ANY person to sell ANY coin without owning it. Market-nuking indeed! The Discovery: Tinkering with UI Coinbase launched their advanced trading platform on November 3, 2021. The purpose was to integrate sophisticated … Read more

New Year New Joe: New TraderJoe Tokenomics 

There’s a whole new Joe in town.  TraderJoe is the largest DEX (Decentralized Exchange) on the Avalanche blockchain.  TraderJoe tokenomics will change via adjustment of the staking mechanism.  To do this, TraderJoe will move from one to three separate staking mechanisms. The new staking mechanisms are: rJOE sJOE veJOE Currently, JOE is staked for xJOE which earns rewards in JOE. The new … Read more