A structured OWASP threat model for cross-chain bridges, built from the Ronin 2022, Poly Network 2023, Ronin 2024 and Kelp DAO 2026 incidents, covering assets, trust boundaries, STRIDE analysis, an attack tree and a prioritised threat register.
2026, Jul 31 —
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.
2026, Jul 31 —
How the Gnosis Conditional Tokens contracts model prediction markets, why collection identifiers are elliptic curve points on alt_bn128, and what the 2019 audit found.
2026, Jul 28 —
A simple guide to conditional tokens, the stickers that turn into money once a question is answered. Explained with a school fair prize shop, a locked money box, and a clever way of naming things.
2026, Jul 28 —
Why DeFi needs a unified risk layer above the price oracle stack, how Aave evolved from governance to risk oracles, and how protocol-owned risk infrastructure prices Pendle PT tokens.
2026, Jul 02 —
How to insure composable DeFi more efficiently by placing first-loss capital along the attack graph (bridges, oracles, signers) instead of only at protocol endpoints.
2026, Jul 02 —
A chronological record of confirmed hacks, disclosed vulnerabilities, and bug bounties in zero-knowledge proof protocols from 2023 to 2026, with technical root cause analysis for each incident.
2026, Jun 19 —
An analysis of security incidents in ZK-rollup bridges from 2023 to 2026, covering confirmed exploits, circuit-level vulnerability disclosures, and bug bounties targeting ZK withdrawal and settlement mechanisms.
2026, Jun 19 —
A deep-dive into Hash Time-Locked Contracts (HTLCs) - how they work cryptographically, how Garden Finance uses them for a trustless Bitcoin bridge, and the threat model behind the protocol.
2026, May 11 —
Learn how to integrate Pyth Network pull oracle price feeds in Solidity and Solana programs, with a deep focus on security pitfalls — staleness, confidence intervals, fixed-point math, and adversarial selection.
2026, Mar 13 —
A technical comparison of ERC-20 token implementations across OpenZeppelin Contracts, Solady, and Solarity solidity-lib. Covers features, gas efficiency, architecture, extensibility, and selection criteria.
2026, Feb 13 —
A technical comparison of traditional futures and crypto perpetual futures, covering no-arbitrage pricing, mark-to-market settlement, the funding rate mechanism, and liquidation.
2025, Dec 29 —
Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are an essential piece of decentralized finance (DeFi). This article delves into the most commonly used formulas in AMM design, their benefits, and their limitations.
2025, Jul 29 —
This article analyze the features, architecture, and implications of the Solidity version deployed on Ethereum mainet, especially from a security, centralization, and functional standpoint.
2025, Jul 06 —
Dives deep and explains how Liquity differs from Maker DAO.
2024, Dec 16 —
Virtuals Protocol is a co-ownership layer for AI agents in gaming and entertainment. These agents can operate across a wide range of applications and games, significantly expanding their revenue surface area. AI agents can be to be tokenized and co-owned via blockchain.
2024, Dec 05 —
The CoW protocol allows users to trade assets through signed messages (intents)instead of direct on-chain transaction to save gas, find optimal prices and protect orders from MEV.
2024, Nov 21 —
This article presents the architecture and the behavior of Compound V2, a DeFi protocol on Ethereum for supplying or borrowing assets
2024, Aug 27 —
Size Protocol is a credit marketplace with unified liquidity across maturities. This article presents the liquidation function. This analyze has been done for the Code4Arena contest.
2024, Jul 15 —
Representation of fungible tokens in the various existing blockchains. On Ethereum, its largest representative is the ERC-20 standard.
2024, Jul 12 —
This article presents the oracle implementation from Renzo made during the code4Arena contest
2024, May 30 —
This article presents the liquidation function from the Dyad Stablecoin made during the code4Arena contest
2024, May 02 —
MakerDAO is a DAO managing and issuing the stablecoin DAI, which is designed to maintain a 1:1 peg with the US Dollar.
2023, Nov 21 —
