Tipos de fraude
Fixed-return staking fraud
A central operator markets predictable yield as protocol staking.
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KOLs e promoção
Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled and ICO promotion
The 2018 SEC cases show that compensation can include several arrangements hidden behind a public endorsement.
Investigação MASTR
Following sale proceeds without counting the same money twice
A practical reading guide to MASTR’s LAPTOP records: inventory, sale receipts, routing costs, conversions and the limits of wallet attribution.
Investigação MASTR
FOMO / MEME: launch timing and investor conflicts
The public dossier supports specific red flags and rejects the claim that the displayed traders all entered on the same terms.
História cripto
Forsage smart-contract pyramid
The SEC charged founders and promoters of Forsage in 2022, describing a smart-contract pyramid and Ponzi structure.
Carteiras e segurança
Freeze-authority coercion
An issuer can stop selected accounts from transferring.
Controlo e provas · Research method
From a wallet graph to a finding someone else can reproduce
Preserve observations, test alternative explanations and distinguish a transaction path from a claim about identity or intent.
Investigação MASTR
From decentralisation to attention capture
MASTR's research on how official accounts, investors and promoters determine which projects people see.
Métodos de investigação
From lead to finding: a claim ladder for crypto research
Match the strength of the language to the strength of the evidence.
Tipos de fraude
Front-running bot scams
A tutorial claims a simple contract can beat trades in public mempools.
História cripto
FTX and Alameda: customer money, privileged accounts and the bankruptcy
How the exchange funded its affiliated trading firm, why the risk engine did not protect customers and what later recovery percentages actually measured.
História cripto
FTX bankruptcy-claim valuation
FTX's confirmed plan calculated recoveries against allowed bankruptcy claims rather than returning each deposited coin.
História cripto
FTX privileged Alameda account
How exceptional credit and risk treatment for an affiliated account undermined the protections advertised to ordinary FTX customers.
Fundamentos de blockchain
Gas: resource usage and transaction price
The units consumed and the price paid per unit explain different parts of an execution fee.
História cripto
Genesis and Gemini Earn structure
The SEC's 2023 complaint described Genesis as borrower and Gemini as customer-facing agent for Earn.
Contas inteligentes e governação
Governance checkpoints: whose votes counted, and when?
Delegation, historical voting weight and proposal timing determine more than a current token balance.
DeFi e governação
Governance proposals: read the transaction that will execute
The announcement and the executable payload can describe different things.
História cripto
Harmony Horizon bridge
Harmony's Horizon bridge was drained in 2022 after enough validating keys were compromised.
História cripto
Hashcash: proof of work before Bitcoin
A computational postage stamp for internet abuse became one ingredient in a different system: public transaction ordering.
Fundamentos de blockchain
Hierarchical deterministic derivation
HD wallets derive many child keys from shared root material.
Métodos de investigação
How to write a finding people can check
Preserve the source, the observation, the inference and the unresolved question.
Fundamentos da Web
HTTP: what your browser asks a server to do
Requests, responses and application state explain why a working page can still show stale or misleading information.
História cripto
HyperFund and HyperVerse
US authorities alleged that HyperFund and related brands raised money through false mining and investment claims.
História cripto
IcomTech
IcomTech promised returns from crypto mining and trading; US prosecutions established a Ponzi scheme.
Tipos de fraude
Impersonated crypto giveaways
A promotion promises to return a multiple of any deposit.