Anneke de Vries

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 20

Huione and Section 311: How FATF Rules Get Teeth in 2026

FinCEN says Cambodia's Huione laundered at least $4 billion, and Elliptic traced far more. The case shows how FATF's crypto rulebook actually…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·SEP 20

Guessed, Not Stolen: Crypto’s Weak-Key Problem in 2026

Most private-key compromise in 2026 is theft. A quieter class needs no phishing at all: keys so weakly randomized that attackers simply…

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 19

MiCA in 2026: One Passport, Many Supervisors

MiCA's transitional period closed on 1 July 2026, leaving one rulebook, a single passport across 30 markets and 349 licensed firms. The…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·SEP 19

Twice Is a Pattern: Why Bridge Hacks Keep Repeating in 2026

In 2026 two crypto bridges were drained the same way twice, months apart. That is not bad luck; it is the clearest…

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 18

MiCA Implementation in 2026: Tokens, NFTs, and Games

MiCA is fully live across the EU, the market has consolidated to roughly 349 licensed firms, and Brussels is already rewriting it.…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·SEP 18

Zero Bugs Found: Halborn and the $292M Kelp DAO Hack

The biggest DeFi hack of 2026 drained $292 million from Kelp DAO, yet every audited contract behaved exactly as written. Halborn's reconstruction…

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 17

MiCA in 2026: The License Was the Easy Part

Three months after Europe's crypto transition deadline, MiCA has shifted from issuing licenses to enforcing them. Here is what supervision, DORA, and…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·SEP 17

The Phone Is the Vault: Trail of Bits and Mobile Crypto Risk

A zero-click iPhone exploit called DarkSword hunts crypto wallets no audit protects. Here is why Trail of Bits spun out iVerify, and…

REGULATION & POLICY·SEP 16

Crypto ETF Approvals After CLARITY: Approved by Rule, Not Law

The Senate killed the CLARITY Act on September 15, yet the crypto ETF machine keeps approving products. The whole boom rests on…

SECURITY & EXPLOITS·SEP 16

Who Audits Solana and Move? The Non-EVM Audit Gap in 2026

Crypto's audit reputation was built on Ethereum, but the code that breaks now runs on Rust and Move. A review of the…