Vesting side letters
Private agreements can accelerate or loosen public token schedules.
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Research articles and reference entries are published in English. Navigation is available in seven languages.
Research articles and reference entries are published in English. Navigation is available in seven languages.
Voyager Digital collapse
Voyager suspended activity and entered bankruptcy in 2022 after lending and counterparty exposures became uncollectable.
Wallet attribution: an address is not a person
Transfers can be observable while ownership and intent remain uncertain.
Wallet clusters: confidence is not ownership
Shared timing and funding can support a lead without proving a shared operator.
Wallet drainer services
Commercial kits give affiliates phishing pages and share stolen proceeds.
Wallet-app impersonation
A counterfeit app copies the branding and interface of a known wallet.
Wallet-connect session abuse
A connection creates a persistent channel between a wallet and a hostile application.
Wash trading
One economic party trades with itself to manufacture volume or price.
Wash trading and the appearance of demand
Volume needs counterparties, ownership context and a method before it becomes evidence of manipulation.
What an audit or scanner actually covers
Scope, version, exclusions and unresolved findings are the useful parts of the report.
When a prediction-market win is staged
MASTR's analysis of promotional content that makes fabricated success look like an ordinary user's experience.
Withdrawal-fee escalation
A platform demands tax, insurance, gas or verification money before release.
Wormhole message-verification failure
In February 2022 an attacker bypassed Wormhole verification and minted unbacked wrapped ETH on Solana.
X reply-bot traps
Automated accounts answer support requests with counterfeit links.
XRP Ledger: validators, XRP and issued assets
A trusted validator list is a consensus input, not a list of asset guarantees.
Yield: identify who pays it
Borrower interest, trading fees, subsidies and new deposits are different sources of return.