The Technical Concepts Behind the 2019 Crypto Hacks
What a smart-contract developer needs to follow the 2019 hacks: fake deposits, EOS rollbacks and random seeds, XRP partial payments, 0x return data.
2026, Oct 07 — 22 minute read
What a smart-contract developer needs to follow the 2019 hacks: fake deposits, EOS rollbacks and random seeds, XRP partial payments, 0x return data.
2026, Oct 07 — 22 minute read
About $950M was stolen from crypto exchanges and infrastructure in 2018 (CipherTrace). Coincheck lost ~$534M in NEM; token overflow bugs minted billions.
2026, Oct 07 — 20 minute read
What a Solidity developer needs to follow the 2018 hacks: BEC and SMT overflows, SpankChain reentrancy, Fomo3D randomness, hot wallets, 51% and BGP attacks.
2026, Oct 07 — 20 minute read
About $266M was stolen from crypto exchanges in 2017 (CipherTrace). Parity's multisig lost ~$31M, NiceHash ~$64M, and ICO sites were hijacked during sales.
2026, Oct 07 — 16 minute read
What a Solidity developer needs to follow the 2017 hacks: Parity's delegatecall wallets and self-destructed library, blockhash limits, ICO front ends.
2026, Oct 07 — 16 minute read
September 2026 lost about $766M to 55 crypto hacks. Bitget (~$387.5M) and Liquid (~$320M) made up 92%; the rest were key leaks, bridge bugs and oracle abuse.
2026, Oct 06 — 39 minute read
Eleven MiCA flashcards: crypto-asset, EMT, ART, utility token, white paper, CASP, passport, significant token and market abuse, with a revision table.
2026, Oct 05 — 10 minute read