AirBit Club
AirBit Club sold memberships and claimed trading and mining returns; US criminal cases established a fraud and money-laundering scheme.
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Os artigos de investigação e as referências são publicados em inglês. A navegação está disponível em sete idiomas.
ANSEM: volume, valuation and the pools underneath
The June 2026 workbook corrects the single-pool story and separates circulating market cap from FDV.
Anti-bot exemptions for insiders
Launch controls restrict ordinary buyers while exempt wallets receive favourable execution.
Arbitrage-bot scams
Copied code promises automatic profit from price differences.
Arbitrum: rollups and AnyTrust have different assumptions
The technology name alone does not tell you where transaction data is available.
Audit scope drift: the badge can outlive the reviewed code
Match the report to the software users interact with now.
Audit-badge laundering
An old audit is displayed after code, proxies or administrators have changed.
Auto-deleveraging externalities
Profitable positions are reduced when the venue cannot absorb another account's deficit.
Avalanche: C-Chain, other chains and bridge exposure
Similar branding can cover different execution environments and validator arrangements.
BadgerDAO frontend compromise
BadgerDAO users approved malicious transactions after its web interface was compromised in 2021.
Base: familiar addresses, separate balances
Using an Ethereum layer 2 requires checking the network as well as the recipient.
Beanstalk governance takeover
Beanstalk lost funds in 2022 after flash-borrowed voting power enabled a malicious governance proposal.
Binance 2023 criminal resolution
Binance and Changpeng Zhao entered guilty pleas in November 2023 in a resolution exceeding $4 billion.
Binance and CZ: what the 2023 guilty pleas established
The corporate violations, Zhao's separate offence and the later pardon belong in one dated record.
BIP-39 passphrases: the wrong phrase can open a different wallet
Recovery words and the optional passphrase are separate inputs to key generation.
Bitcoin halvings: a programmed subsidy reduction
The schedule changes new issuance; it does not program a market return.
Bitcoin UTXOs: the outputs behind a wallet balance
Inputs consume earlier outputs; new outputs define who can spend the resulting amounts.
Bitcoin: settlement, mining and custody
What proof of work settles, and which risks still belong to the services around it.
BitConnect lending programme
US prosecutors alleged that BitConnect's lending programme operated as a global Ponzi scheme.
BitConnect: promised returns and the supposed trading bot
A historical indictment illustrates why the source of yield needs evidence.
BitMEX Bank Secrecy Act case
BitMEX was fined $100 million in January 2025 after pleading guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act.
Blind-signature phishing
A wallet displays opaque bytes and asks the user to trust the connected page.
Blob data for rollups
EIP-4844 blobs provide temporary data space priced apart from execution gas.
BlockFi interest accounts
BlockFi's 2022 SEC settlement concerned interest accounts and disclosure around lending activity.
BlockLayerPod and BeaconLayerPod: the interview invitation
MASTR's archived research follows the social-engineering stage before a wallet loss.
Blocks: ordered transactions and a commitment to state
A block links execution history to the chain's verification rules.
BNB Chain and Binance are different subjects
Separate the exchange's legal record from BSC's validator and application risks.
BONK DAO: the governance question in MASTR's July essay
Public voting records can be transparent while voting power remains concentrated.
Bridge trust models
Bridges lock, burn, mint or release assets from cross-system messages.
Bridged assets: the same symbol does not mean the same claim
Follow the minting and redemption path across both networks.