Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks - Ten Incidents, Five Failure Classes

Cross-Chain Bridge Hacks - Ten Incidents, Five Failure Classes

A comparative analysis of ten major cross-chain bridge exploits between 2021 and 2026, grouped into five failure classes, covering the architecture of each bridge, the root cause of each failure, and the destination of the stolen funds.

41 minute read
Rundler — Inside Alchemy's ERC-4337 Bundler

Rundler — Inside Alchemy's ERC-4337 Bundler

How Rundler implements an ERC-4337 bundler in Rust — the Pool, Builder and RPC tasks, mempool simulation and reputation, the bundle sender state machine, gas estimation, signature aggregation and multi-entry-point support.

29 minute read
How Alchemy Implements Smart Wallets and Account Abstraction

How Alchemy Implements Smart Wallets and Account Abstraction

A walkthrough of Alchemy's ERC-4337 stack — Modular Account V2 and its semi-modular variants, validation selection through the UserOperation nonce, deferred actions, session-key permission modules, the Rundler bundler, and the hosted Wallet APIs.

32 minute read