A few months ago my dev team found one of our testnet wallets in a public github project. Not just the address, but the full private key. We spent a day in full 🚨Red Alert🚨 mode, rotating accounts, auditing all of our transactions, and searching for any possible way that…

👉 Demo code — https://github.com/neznein9/gas-estimation EIP-1559 has arrived, starting with Ethereum’s London Fork, and continuing out to Layer 2s and other EVM compatible blockchains in the last year. …

In my last article, I put forward a framework for researching and evaluating blockchains. Before I go deeper and look at specific DApps and tokens running in an ecosystem, I want to apply the framework to a real world example. Below is my research and evaluation of the Polygon network. What is it? …

Yesterday was the Iron.finance Armageddon. I have seen a couple of different theories on the crash including a rug pull by the devs, active DOS attack against Polygon network, or a feedback loop where stablecoin sales caused hyperinflation of the collateral coin which further devalued the stable. …

A couple of days ago I went down the rabbit hole of recursive lending and extreme liquidity farming on Polygon. My step-by-step article generated some interesting discussion on r/defi, and a few folks asked me for an update. Before diving in, I have to give a caveat that I didn’t…

TL;DR — Get some ETH. Move it into your MetaMask wallet. Set up MetaMask for the Polygon/Matic sidechain. Wrap your ETH and move it over to Matic Network as PoS-WETH. Deposit your money in the Aave platform to earn MATIC reward tokens. Borrow from Aave, re-deposit what you borrowed. Loop. 🤯. …