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MASTR · 2024–2026

Research & analysis · 8

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KOLs & promotion

Follower farming and the market for apparent credibility

Chapter 1: The Hidden Industry Follower farming in crypto is not a rumour. HypeAuditor counted more than 51 million suspicious X accounts in 2024. About 45 percent of all interactions on top crypto hashtags come from automated systems.…

Research & analysis5 min
KOLs & promotion

N3ON: MASTR’s November 2025 warning

@N3onOnYT (real name Mikyle Rafiq) has built a career not just on streaming but on controversy after controversy, and the list keeps growing.

Research & analysis2 min
Politics & conflicts

Bitcoin: Web3 culture · 10 Nov 2025

· The EU is introducing a 10 000 EUR cash limit for commercial transactions · This is not a full cash ban · The 2027 AML rules add KYC for regulated crypto service providers · But there is NO rule requiring ID for every single #Bitcoin or…

Research & analysis2 min
Institutional entry and the control of access — original source image
Networks & infrastructure

Institutional entry and the control of access

BlackRock, #Fidelity and #Vanguard together manage over $23 trillion. That’s more than 20× the total crypto spot market.

Research & analysis5 min
Research methods

BANGERS and the claimed Nikita Bier connection

Let’s cut the crap. $BANGERS is not a project, it’s a scam in a costume, built entirely on fake rumors about @nikitabier, Head of Product at X, and the verified account @bangers.

Research & analysis2 min
Market structure

Exchange accountability · 7 Nov 2025

Over the last 48 hours, multiple “stable” coins have nuked — wiping portfolios, freezing redemptions, and proving once again: nothing is stable when greed runs the code.

Research & analysis1 min
ASTER and 10/10: separating price moves from evidence — original source image
Exchanges & custody

ASTER and 10/10: separating price moves from evidence

You’re sending your money into a fully centralized cesspool, where people around @cz_binance and #Binance control the majority of the supply and, by extension, the entire market itself.

Research & analysis3 min
KOLs & promotion

Solana: Web3 culture · 30 Oct 2025

@JakeGagain, @JamesWynnReal, and @crypto_bitlord7 has become the blueprint for coordinated shilling, narrative hijacking, and retail extraction across Solana and BNB.

Research & analysis2 min
Phishing, exploits & privacy

GMGN wallet-draining reports: the October 2025 account

Between October 25 and 28, 2025, hundreds of users who connected their wallets to a major Solana and BNB Smart Chain trading and analytics platform, reported their funds disappearing in real time.

Research & analysis4 min
Binance’s October 2025 disruption: the early account — original source image
Exchanges & custody

Binance’s October 2025 disruption: the early account

In the early hours of October 11 (Beijing time), the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, turned from the deepest liquidity venue into the epicenter of a meltdown.

Research & analysis3 min
Networks & infrastructure

The October 2025 AWS outage and dependent services

Earlier today, Amazon Web Services experienced a major outage that started in its US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, one of the most important data centers in the world.

Research & analysis1 min
Exchanges & custody

Binance: exchange accountability · 17 Oct 2025

#Binance now dominates crypto with ~52 % of all spot trading, ~56 % of futures, and controls over 30 % of total order-book liquidity across major pairs (CoinGecko & CryptoQuant, Q3 2025).

Research & analysis2 min
Research methods

The MASTR investigation toolkit

Cielo – Wallet Tracking (EVM, Bitcoin, Solana, Tron, etc.) 🔺TRM – Create graphs for addresses/transactions 🔺MetaSuites – Chrome extension that adds extra data on block explorers 🔺MetaSleuth – Similar to TRM but intended for retail users…

Research & analysis3 min
Networks & infrastructure

Bitcoin: paid promotion · 28 Sep 2025

I want to make one thing clear: this is not a prediction, just information for those who are interested.

Research & analysis2 min
Exchanges & custody

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,…

Research & analysis4 min
HypervaultFi: the September 2025 disappearance — original source image
Onchain investigations

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.

Research & analysis2 min
The Com: social engineering and account compromise — original source image
Phishing, exploits & 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.

Research & analysis4 min
Phishing, exploits & 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.

Research & analysis1 min
Networks & infrastructure

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.

Research & analysis3 min
Politics & conflicts

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.”

Research & analysis2 min
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