MASTR · 2024–2026
Original investigations, critical essays and the conversations behind them. Read by subject, follow a thread, or find a person or project in the source texts.
694 · Selected publications · 24/29
• 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,…
One of the biggest shocks on HyperEVM just went down: #HypervaultFi rugged and vanished, leaving ~$3.6M in losses for around 1,100 users.
That was in June, when no one was talking about it yet, but some already knew the next steps to lock in money and users.
You really should read this if you’re chasing the $BNB or $ASTER hype, because what’s behind the curtain is ugly.
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.
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.
l2 crypto is poisoned, rotting from the inside out. my algo is completely wrecked. big accounts, almost all scammers and extractors, have blocked me to protect their game.
Labels like HighCryptoSpamScore (visible in leaked dev screenshots) suggest that tweets or accounts heavily associated with crypto get flagged more aggressively.
Every big runner was orchestrated by @hellochow (taking 1% kickbacks) and Kelsier designed for “max extraction” (direct quote).
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.
DEX boosts and the incentives to buy visibility. Dated original source, with context and links.
The only thing that keeps me going are the few of you who interact, like, retweet. Otherwise I wouldn’t even be here anymore.
🚨 I analyzed the $WLFI contracts and the findings are hair-raising. The design is shockingly unprofessional for a project hyped as a $7B+ “DAO.”
Next time these scammers try to drain money in crypto, remember this tweet. Would you buy something from them again?
Paid promotion: the conflict behind the price of a tweet. Dated original source, with context and links.
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.
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:
They are engineered social-technical attacks that exploit information asymmetry, hype psychology, and structural weaknesses in token design.
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.
Launchpad competition, trust and the need for useful tools. Dated original source, with context and links.
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👇
The decision to unfreeze $57.6 million in USDC for the promoters of the infamous Libra memecoin is nothing less than a disgrace.
Emotional trading and receiving criticism. Dated original source, with context and links.
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.