SEC Is Probing NFTs After CEX Charges
The SEC has opened an investigation into NFTs and NFT exchange marketplaces. Is this something you should be concerned about or is Gary prematurely extrapolating his oversight?
DeFi
MetaMask and OpenSea Block Users
Explaining what happened with Infura and MetaMask, and OpenSea. Clarity and next best steps provided. If you haven’t already, buy a hardware wallet.
Ukraine Receives Over $50 Million In Crypto Donations and Cancels Planned Airdrop
Ukraine was able to raise over $50million in crypto donations after promising an airdrop to donors and rug pulling them. Crypto…
How to Read Smart Contracts Without Learning Solidity
In Decentralized Finance, code is law. Instead of legal documents, we have self-enforcing smart contracts. While contracts written in code enable the vast universe of DeFi, they also present a literacy issue. Legalese may be boring, but the average user can still puzzle through it with enough re-reading. In contrast, code is incomprehensible to the … Read more
Treasure Marketplace Hacked: Exploit Ongoing
BREAKING – The Treasure Marketplace has been hacked! A bug in the contract allowed attackers to purchase a variety of NFTs, including high value Genesis Legions and Smol Brains, for 0 cost. This is a bug in the exchange itself and is currently affecting ALL listed NFTs. Users should delist or revoke approval for ANY … Read more
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
Rug of the Month: February 2022 – Pixelmon
February was an interesting month of potential winners of the Rug of the month. An ex-pornstar made off with over $1 million on an NFT, Coinbase rugged a white-hat that saved them infinite dollars, and many of the standard scams occurred. It wasn’t until I saw the glory of this 3ETH butt plug that I … Read more
Vote Escrowed Tokens (VeToken) – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Vote-Escrowed Tokens have you lock-up money in return for more voting power in the protocol. Popularized by Curve, VE is starting to take…
A Crash Course on Ethereum
Uncovering what is behind the growth of DeFi, NFTs, and why Ethereum is the most widely used blockchain in the world.
PulseChain – Biggest Airdrop or Biggest Scam Ever
PulseChain is an upcoming hard fork of Ethereum from the founder of HEX. Is this the largest airdrop ever or a money-grab by the…