Introduction We are pleased to announce that after working for months with the StarkWare team, we are finally launching the Stone CLI, a tool for easily proving and verifying Cairo programs! Huge thanks to the StarkWare team for their work and guidance as…

Recently Eric Voskuil shared a benchmark of doing IBD with Libbitcoin versus Bitcoin Core, showing that Libbitcoin could perform IBD 15x faster than Core with -assumevalid. Libbitcoin’s approach is very different from Bitcoin Core. This writeup intends to…

In January, we identified and reported a vulnerability in the Lotus and Venus clients of the Filecoin network that allowed an attacker to remotely crash a node and trigger a denial of service. This issue is caused by an incorrect validation of an index, resulting…

Many DeFi Protocols have decentralised using DAOs and token governance. This article explores the common vulnerabilities in the...

How Chainflip is bringing BTC liquidity on-chain

DeMystifying MEV in Sui

AI-enabled code assistants (like GitHub’s Copilot, Continue.dev, and Tabby) are making software development faster and more productive. Unfortunately, these tools are often bad at Solidity. So we decided to improve them! To make it easier to write, edit,…

Programmable cryptography enables fun, safe, and intelligent experiences.
Hardware is necessary to achieve programmable cryptography at scale.
How to think about the levels of secure hardware?
Let’s get to Level 5.

This book aims to explain, from the ground up, how peerDAS actually works.
It covers all the aspects of peerDAS (or more especially, how does peerDAS is implemented inside the Prysm Ethereum consensus clients), without going too deep into the exploration.…

How do different devices stack up for signing multisig transactions? See the results of Jameson Lopp's tests.

Prove you know without telling me the whole thing.

The article introduces a structured testing framework to help developers write more thoughtful, effective tests aimed at catching severe bugs in their protocols.

Prolonged stress and burnout often stem from pursuing high-risk, time-consuming activities that yield low rewards. Here's how I learned to recognize when the risks outweigh the rewards, and why sometimes the best choice is walking away.

A guide for how to significantly speed up syncing a new Bitcoin Core node using the UTXO snapshot feature.

⚡ Guide: How to set up hybrid-mode (clearnet & Tor) on LND