An Aztec test failed on a tagging-secret assertion. The cause was a Jest timeout smaller than the sleep it guarded, and two unrelated changes that made it fatal.
2026, Sep 23 — 15 minute read
Twelve flashcards for Cardano smart contracts: UTXO, datum, redeemer, script context, validator, script address, minting policy, collateral and the eUTXO model.
2026, Sep 22 — 11 minute read
Three Bio Solana launchpad audit bugs, with code: sale tokens stranded by pro-rata claims, a revenue sweep that starves refunds, a u16 table filled for cents.
2026, Sep 22 — 17 minute read
Three Bio EVM launchpad audit bugs, with code: a vesting duration passed as a timestamp, a one-wei donation that bricks a launch, a transfer that burns claims.
2026, Sep 22 — 19 minute read
How the Zama KMS holds the FHE decryption key as 13 shares, what its gRPC operations do, how a node is built (core, connector, vaults, backups) and deployed in Nitro Enclaves.
2026, Sep 18 — 20 minute read
A reading of the Zama fhevm whitepaper (v3.1, June 2025) against the zama-ai/fhevm repository, with the changes the implementation has made since the paper was written.
2026, Sep 18 — 25 minute read
How the Zama Confidential Blockchain Protocol splits work between host contracts, coprocessors, a Gateway rollup and a threshold KMS, and which of them you trust.
2026, Sep 18 — 22 minute read
