Every coin has a story. Explore the human dramas, multi-million dollar heists, and visionary breakthroughs behind Web3.
A $235 million multisig breach froze an Indian exchange; court-supervised restructuring turned frozen balances into tokens — and Recovery Tokens that remain claims, not cash.
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Treasury sanctioned Tornado Cash, but the Fifth Circuit held its immutable contracts were not blockable property under IEEPA. Roman Storm was convicted on only one of three counts.
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Ethereum's Pectra upgrade let plain key wallets run code through EIP-7702 delegation. The persistence that enables batching and recovery also became phishing's newest target.
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How a public adversarial AI game on Base ended when one prompt tricked the Freysa agent into approving the transfer of its 13.19 ETH prize pool.
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After Chapter 11 in 2022, Core Scientific began converting mining infrastructure for AI — then shareholders rejected CoreWeave’s all-stock merger with roughly $9 billion of implied equity value.
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An AI VC parody named after a16z peaked near $2.5 billion in market cap — before its founder buried the token and saved the open-source code.
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MiCA regulated stablecoins, yet the same French licence opened Europe to both EURC and USDC. Can rules alone overcome the dollar’s digital head start?
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How Gnosis turned signed trade intents, solver competition and a cow-shaped pun into an MEV-resistant auction.
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Bitcoin’s quantum risk depends on exposed keys and an unknown machine. QRL’s XMSS experiment reveals both a defense and its costs.
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Over $3.6 billion in election volume, a pseudonymous French whale, and the 6 a.m. FBI raid on Polymarket's 26-year-old CEO — closed with no charges in 2025.
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An AI bot, a billionaire's $50,000 Bitcoin grant, and the GOAT memecoin it never created — the verified story of Truth Terminal's paper millions.
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How Jeff Yan built a self-funded onchain exchange—and what the evidence really says about its speed, market share, and HYPE launch.
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Hamster Kombat's claimed 300 million players, Durov's Paris detention, and the HMSTR launch that many recipients called dust.
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How Sreeram Kannan’s restaking market reached $20.12B—and where Vitalik drew Ethereum’s social-consensus boundary.
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Almost one million hotspots, $92,000 of data revenue, a compressed-NFT migration to Solana, and a $20 hybrid 5G plan later retired: Helium's measured rebirth.
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One developer numbered satoshis, ignited a spam war inside Bitcoin Core, and activated Runes on the halving block where total fees reached 37.62561499 BTC.
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How pump.fun simplified token launches, then confronted an alleged insider exploit, dangerous livestreams, and legal scrutiny.
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The $2.6 billion BitConnect collapse, the screaming 3-minute Pattaya speech that broke the internet, and Carlos Matos's bizarre wellness rebirth.
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