OpenZeppelin CEO Says DeFi Unsafe: The Audit Model Just Died
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Canton Network's $2B Round Is a Bet on Boring
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Gemini Spark AI Agent Needs a Wallet, Not a Card
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Verus Ethereum Bridge Exploit: The Same $11.58M Bug
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GENIUS Act AML Rulemaking: Stablecoins Are Banks Now
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Anthropic Mythos vs DeFi Security: The Audit Stack Is Broken
Anthropic's Mythos can chain AI zero-day exploits faster than any timelock can respond. DeFi's friction-based defenses were never built for this.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 27, 2026
AI Agent Payments: Anvita, x402, and Who Owns the Rail
Ant Group, Coinbase, Visa, and Mastercard are all building agent payment rails at once. Only one architecture fits how AI agents actually transact.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 25, 2026
LayerZero DVN Misconfiguration: How Kelp DAO Lost $292M
The Kelp DAO rsETH exploit wasn't a code bug. It was a 1-of-1 DVN config — and it wiped $292M, 18% of rsETH supply, and triggered a $13B DeFi bank run.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 22, 2026
Base Hit $1B Daily DEX Volume: L2 Wars Are a Liquidity Game
Base crossed $1B in daily DEX volume last week. The L2 race has shifted—chain technology is table stakes now, and liquidity depth is the real moat.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 22, 2026
BlackRock BUIDL Targets Corporate Bonds: Why Credit Is the Real RWA Test
BlackRock's $2.2B BUIDL expansion into investment-grade corporate bonds isn't just another RWA headline—it's the first real stress test for on-chain fixed income infrastructure.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 22, 2026
How Stablecoin Bridges Actually Fail (And What 2025 Fixed)
The $2B+ lost to bridge exploits wasn't mostly about Solidity bugs. It was about lock-and-mint economics. Here's what native stablecoin issuance finally changed.
By Anurag Verma · Apr 22, 2026
The Rise of Real-World Asset Tokenization: From Concept to $50B Market
RWA tokenization has crossed the $50 billion mark. Here's what's actually driving institutional adoption, what the technical stack looks like, and why the next decade belongs to on-chain assets.
By Anurag Verma · Feb 10, 2025
AI Agents in 2025: Why Autonomous Software Is the New Operating System
We've moved past chatbots. AI agents that plan, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks are reshaping how software is built and run. Here's the technical reality behind the hype.
By Anurag Verma · Feb 5, 2025
Layer 2 Wars: How Rollups Are Winning the Ethereum Scaling Battle
Optimistic vs ZK rollups, the rise of app-specific L2s, and what the battle for Ethereum's scaling layer means for builders and institutions.
By Anurag Verma · Jan 28, 2025
The LLM Stack in Production: What Actually Works in 2025
After two years of LLM deployments in production, patterns are emerging. Here's what the real stack looks like — retrieval, fine-tuning, evaluation, and the mistakes everyone makes.
By Anurag Verma · Jan 20, 2025
DeFi in 2025: What Survived, What Died, and What's Being Built
After the 2022 collapse and the 2024 recovery, DeFi has a clearer shape. The protocols that survived are battle-tested. The new ones are more sophisticated. Here's the honest state of the ecosystem.
By Anurag Verma · Jan 15, 2025
Multimodal AI: When Models Can See, Hear, and Read at Once
GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5, and Claude 3.5 can process images, audio, and text simultaneously. What this means for product builders and which use cases are actually production-ready.
By Anurag Verma · Jan 8, 2025
Crypto Regulation in 2025: What the New Frameworks Actually Mean
MiCA is live, the US has a new administration, and Asia is moving fast. Here's a clear-eyed look at where global crypto regulation stands and what it means for builders.
By Anurag Verma · Jan 3, 2025
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