How the latest hyped concept could make crypto accessible to everyone and their mum Once again, an acronym is all the rage in the crypto world. Don't be misled. AA does not stand for anonymous alcoholics, even though crypto has a solid anon culture. It's short for account abstraction and

Story One Exploiting the exploiter Remember last year when Solana DeFi flourished despite the chain being down sometimes? Back then, a savvy hacker exploited Wormhole, a bridge between Ethereum and Solana, getting away with $120,000 ETH worth $325 million at the time. Despite being offered a $10 million bounty,

Zero-knowledge, zero problem: all you need to know about this crypto narrative. It's been a tough week for anyone following crypto regulations closely. But instead of focusing on the attempts of the SEC's Gary Gensler trying to explain to us that staking has nothing to do with steak (watch at

Story One SEC is forcing Kraken to shut down its staking service The SEC's new year resolution must have been going down hard on crypto. The latest company being called out is the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. This time it's all about their staking service. Staking, the process of securing a

Story One Avi's highly profitable trading strategy might end him in jail Avraham Eisenberg's "highly profitable trading strategy" might come with some unexpected losses, namely his freedom. Avi had found a vulnerability in the DeFi lending protocol Mango market and exploited it to borrow $116 million in other currencies against

Story One After F comes G...TX What comes next after months of laying low in a country which offers no extradition to the US? You make a comeback. An investment deck outlining "cross-asset trading on a public marketplace" which was widely distributed earlier this week caused quite a stir.

Last year saw few positive cryptocurrency headlines. Was there even a glimmer of hope? The end of 2021 felt like a hangover after all time highs. We soberly asked ourselves back in January last year: everyone’s lining up to dunk on crypto. Are we the bad guys?  As early

Story One How Sam Bankman-Fried killed the world’s greatest money printer Hands up if you had “amphetamine addicted sex nerd rug pulls the international crypto market” on your 2022 bingo card. Anyone? Anyone? Hell, where do you even start? Over the past week the Twitter hive mind has done

I regret to inform you that crypto has been cancelled. There are savage falls from grace. And then there is whatever the %#&@ just happened to FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. My god. I mean, my GOD. A few months ago SBF was being hailed as the saviour of crypto

Story One Elon buys Twitter, Binance tosses in half-a-billion Unless you’ve been clinically dead for the past week, you’re probably aware that Elon Musk now owns Twitter. An interesting footnote to the whole saga is that Binance, indisputably the world’s biggest crypto exchange, contributed US$500 million

The decentralised web is crypto’s latest and greatest crusade. Could a web 2.0 giant show us the way forward? When web3 roared into the crypto vernacular last year it felt like a direct response to Facebook’s hamfisted attempts to co-opt and privatise the metaverse. A technology that

Story One Mastercard, Google and BNY Mellon make the crypto leap Classify this news package under “If it happened during a bull market we’d all be drinking martinis in gold-plated Lambos but it’s happened now so back to packet noodles and regret for us”. America’s oldest bank,