Anneke de Vries

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·OCT 5

Multisig Best Practices in 2026: The Permission Is the Attack

October opened with two multisig losses where the wallet worked perfectly and still paid the attacker. In 2026, best practice means guarding…

REGULATION & POLICY·OCT 4

MiCA in 2026: The Rulebook Is Live, and the Rewrite Fight Is On

MiCA's transitional period is over and Europe's crypto rulebook is fully live. Days after the review window closed, the EU's own regulators…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·OCT 4

Oracle Manipulation Went Multi-Chain: Starknet’s $3.5M Hit

A $3.5 million exploit on Starknet's Nostra Finance showed oracle manipulation is no longer an Ethereum problem. In 2026 it went multi-chain,…

REGULATION & POLICY·OCT 3

Crypto ETF Approvals: The Custody and Tax Fine Print in 2026

In 2026 a crypto ETF approval is close to automatic, so it no longer tells you much. The questions that matter now…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·OCT 3

Pig Butchering in 2026: Crypto Phishing’s Forced-Labor Factory

A record $15 billion bitcoin seizure exposed crypto's deadliest phishing campaign: it runs on forced labor, not code. Inside pig butchering's machine…

REGULATION & POLICY·OCT 2

Crypto ETF Approvals: The 20-Day Clock the Shutdown Can’t Stop

On the day Hester Peirce left the SEC and the government stayed shut, a new crypto ETF could still reach the market.…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·OCT 2

Read, Not Cracked: Crypto’s Infostealer Epidemic in 2026

Most stolen crypto in 2026 is not cracked or guessed, it is read off the owner's own device. Inside the infostealers, clippers,…

REGULATION & POLICY·OCT 1

Crypto ETF Approvals: The October Freeze at a Dark SEC

A funding lapse shut the SEC on October 1, freezing a pipeline of 90-plus crypto ETF filings. Here is how approval works…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·OCT 1

The 12-Minute Drain: Halborn and the $285M Drift Hack

On April Fools' Day 2026, attackers drained $285 million from Solana's Drift in about 12 minutes without a single contract bug. Halborn's…

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 30

DeFi Taxes in 2026: The Frontier No Broker Reports

Centralized exchanges now file a 1099-DA on your trades, but DeFi files nothing. Here is how the IRS taxes swaps, liquidity pools,…