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DeFi's $92M Hack: 3 Zero-Trust Fixes to Stop Crypto's Bleeding

DeFi's $92M Hack: 3 Zero-Trust Fixes to Stop Crypto's Bleeding

Another week, another multi-million dollar DeFi hack. This time, $92 million disappeared without a trace, leaving investors stunned and the industry itself doubting the core tenets it was built upon. Those losses in 2025 already outstrip the entirety of 2024. Are we simply going to let crypto die on the...

Fantom Sonic's 10,000 TPS DeFi Savior or Shiny Object?

Fantom Sonic's 10,000 TPS DeFi Savior or Shiny Object?

Fantom’s Sonic update is something big happening in the crypto world. It boasts an eye-popping 10,000 tps and DeFi yields that could make even the most jaded of investors sit up and take notice. The pitch is seductive: a faster, cheaper, and more profitable DeFi experience. As someone who's seen...

Fantom's Sonic Gamble: Can Singapore's DeFi Scene Ride the 10,000 TPS Wave?

Fantom's Sonic Gamble: Can Singapore's DeFi Scene Ride the 10,000 TPS Wave?

Singapore. A small island country, but big in finance. We’ve established our status on responsiveness, creativity, and a big helping of common sense. So, when I see Fantom touting 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) with their new "Sonic" upgrade, my Singaporean instinct kicks in: can this actually deliver, and what's...

Trump's Crypto Revolution 100 Days: Savior or Siren Song?

Trump's Crypto Revolution 100 Days: Savior or Siren Song?

Is Trump actually draining the swamp, or merely restocking it with Bitcoin instead? Even after 100 days of his pro-crypto blitz, one question continues to eat at me. It might be swirling in yours too. Now, we’re waking up to headlines about strategic Bitcoin reserves, pardons for Silk Road founders,...

Trump's Crypto Playbook 100 Days: Genius or Reckless Gamble?

Trump's Crypto Playbook 100 Days: Genius or Reckless Gamble?

The first 100 days are an unpredictable storm no matter what, but Trump going all-in on crypto? That's a whole new level of disruptive. Stop the tweeting, he’s executive ordering himself to what he hopes will be a Bitcoin-ing Washington. The real question isn’t whether he likes crypto, but rather...

SATO's AI Pivot: Singapore's Blockchain Guru Asks, Can They Deliver?

SATO's AI Pivot: Singapore's Blockchain Guru Asks, Can They Deliver?

SATO Technologies, a company previously best known for their Bitcoin mining operations, is taking a bigger step. That leap has paid off handsomely, to the tune of $3.5 billion this past fiscal year report. Their ambition goes well beyond digital gold. They’re making a sharp turn, though, in AI compute...

SATO's 51% Profit Jump: A Post-Halving Miracle or Fool's Gold?

SATO's 51% Profit Jump: A Post-Halving Miracle or Fool's Gold?

So, SATO Technologies crowing about a 51% profit increase after the halving? Colour me skeptical. Welcome to the Wild West In the crypto world, fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye. That’s why these announcements are so richly deserving of our rapt attention. This isn't just...

Fantom's Sonic: A Scalability Breakthrough or a DeFi Ecosystem Power Grab?

Fantom's Sonic: A Scalability Breakthrough or a DeFi Ecosystem Power Grab?

The Layer-1 wars are heating up, and Fantom's Sonic update is a shot fired directly across Ethereum's bow. Fuhgeddaboudit incremental greenness, this here smells more like a vicious tactical to not only keep pace, but maybe even flip the whole DeFi script on its head. Are we really seeing a...

Bitcoin's Silent Tax: The Innovation Crisis Holding Back Institutional Adoption

Bitcoin's Silent Tax: The Innovation Crisis Holding Back Institutional Adoption

You bought into Bitcoin. The digital gold. The future of finance. Are you actually holding gold, or just a gold-colored, slowly deflating balloon?That's the question institutions are grappling with, and the answer reveals a harsh reality: Bitcoin, in its current form, levies a silent tax. And this tax isn't just...

Bitcoin's Silent Tax: 3 Ways Institutions Can Stop Bleeding Value

Bitcoin's Silent Tax: 3 Ways Institutions Can Stop Bleeding Value

Bitcoin. The digital gold. But even gold in a vault is still expensive – insurance, security, storage. That’s exactly what’s going on with institutions holding Bitcoin today. They’re paying an insidious form of what we call a “silent tax.” If this slow depreciation continues, their sparkling BTC investment will quickly...