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Exchange e custodia

Binance: exchange accountability · 26 Sep 2025

• Wintermute dumped altcoins, booked millions in profits, and sent them to Binance • Binance also sent funds back to Wintermute, a closed loop of coordinated power • On Solana, the classic “3-legs + 50% pullback” pattern appeared,…

Ricerca e analisi4 min
HypervaultFi: the September 2025 disappearance — original source image
Indagini onchain

HypervaultFi: the September 2025 disappearance

One of the biggest shocks on HyperEVM just went down: #HypervaultFi rugged and vanished, leaving ~$3.6M in losses for around 1,100 users.

Ricerca e analisi2 min
The Com: social engineering and account compromise — original source image
Phishing, attacchi e privacy

The Com: social engineering and account compromise

The FBI’s July 2025 Public Service Announcement (I-072325-PSA) calls The Com, short for "The Community" One of the fastest-evolving online criminal ecosystems in recent memory.

Ricerca e analisi4 min
Phishing, attacchi e privacy

The JavaScript supply-chain worm: a warning for Web3 builders

The injected code auto-executes after install, pulls Trufflehog to hunt for secrets (tokens, API keys, passwords), then uses stolen maintainer creds to infect even more packages, a classic self-propagating supply-chain attack.

Ricerca e analisi1 min
Influencer e promozione

Web3 culture · 13 Sep 2025

Labels like HighCryptoSpamScore (visible in leaked dev screenshots) suggest that tweets or accounts heavily associated with crypto get flagged more aggressively.

Commenti e sfoghi1 min
Politica e conflitti d’interesse

Take a good look at this picture, bro.

Every big runner was orchestrated by @hellochow (taking 1% kickbacks) and Kelsier designed for “max extraction” (direct quote).

Commenti e sfoghi1 min
Reti e infrastruttura

Solana: risk and speculation · 9 Sep 2025

You promised 8.2M SOL in circulation in 2020, in reality, it was over 20M. You secretly minted 8M SOL behind the community’s back. That was the first criminal supply fraud.

Ricerca e analisi3 min
Influencer e promozione

Solana: paid promotion · 6 Sep 2025

The only thing that keeps me going are the few of you who interact, like, retweet. Otherwise I wouldn’t even be here anymore.

Commenti e sfoghi3 min
Politica e conflitti d’interesse

WLFI contract controls: the September 2025 review

🚨 I analyzed the $WLFI contracts and the findings are hair-raising. The design is shockingly unprofessional for a project hyped as a $7B+ “DAO.”

Ricerca e analisi2 min
Struttura del mercato

Attention and incentives · 1 Sep 2025

Over a year ago I was one of the very first to say that retail and OGs would leave, because CT, DEX, launchpads and all were already turning into a scam casino, draining liquidity everywhere, every single moment, day and night.

Commenti e sfoghi1 min
Influencer e promozione

Paid promotion · 1 Sep 2025

Pump-and-dump coins spike short-term also with volume, but lose on avg. –30% within a year: 🔺 🔺 Academic research shows pump organizers had >100% median returns, while the top quartile made >2000%, leaving retail wrecked:

Commenti e sfoghi2 min
Influencer e promozione

Wen Rug? The original research-based risk guide

They are engineered social-technical attacks that exploit information asymmetry, hype psychology, and structural weaknesses in token design.

Ricerca e analisi5 min
Influencer e promozione

ThreadGuy and Web3 promotion: MASTR’s archived critique

One of the most shocking elements of the current crypto landscape is not just the behavior of shady influencers, but the fact that institutional actors actively legitimize them.

Ricerca e analisi5 min
Creazione e indipendenza

Building useful products · 24 Aug 2025

A survival guide in a market where most projects are scams, most charts are manipulated, and most people refuse to connect their brain even once before pressing buy. Click, like and retweet👇

Ricerca e analisi3 min
Influencer e promozione

The bad fuel that keeps this industry running is everywhere.

For an industry that once preached freedom from the state, it has rotted into a spectacle of weakness, begging the very governments it claimed to outgrow for rescue every time victims are gutted.

Commenti e sfoghi2 min
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