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Zashleen Singh is a blockchain journalist and investigative reporter specializing in Web3 infrastructure, decentralized applications, and crypto fraud. She has covered over 200 Web3 projects and broken several major rug pull investigations that led to community action. Maya previously worked at a fintech investigative outlet and brings forensic rigor to every story she covers in the crypto space.
about 6 hours ago
Gnosis, Zisk, and the Ethereum Foundation launched EEZ at EthCC to enable synchronous cross-rollup smart contract calls without bridges, backed by Zisk's real-time ZKVM.
Yesterday
On November 3, 2025, an attacker drained $128M from Balancer V2 Composable Stable Pools across six blockchains in under 30 minutes — using a rounding error that survived 11 audits.
Mar 31, 2026
Britain’s Xinbi sanctions treat crypto fraud as industrial infrastructure: marketplaces, compounds, trafficked labor, and property networks working together.
Mar 31, 2026
Steakhouse’s incident shows how DeFi users can face real danger even when contracts stay safe, because DNS and support-desk failures can turn trusted frontends into phishing traps.
Mar 29, 2026
Justin Sun’s SEC deal shows the agency still wants penalties in crypto fraud cases, but under new leadership it is settling narrower and cheaper.
Mar 29, 2026
Moonwell’s February cbETH incident was not a hack. It was a one-line oracle mistake that liquidated healthy users and exposed weak deployment safeguards.
Mar 29, 2026
YieldBlox’s oracle attack exposed thin-liquidity pricing risk on Stellar, but the bigger story is how validator quarantine changed the loss profile.
Mar 28, 2026
Australia's Federal Court fined Binance A$10M for exposing 524 retail investors to high-risk crypto derivatives — on top of A$13.1M already paid in compensation. The total bill now exceeds A$23M.
Mar 28, 2026
Bitcoin ETFs shed $171M on Thursday — the worst outflow day in three weeks — erasing a month of institutional conviction as Iran war weekend fears overtook a ceasefire extension announcement.
Mar 28, 2026
Nethermind 1.36.1 was a narrow Chiado Osaka release, but that is exactly why it matters: client tags are where upgrade timelines become operational deadlines.
Mar 28, 2026
Igra’s mainnet ships Ethereum-style RPC and Blockscout verification, but finality, reorg handling, and docs gaps still shape how far builders should trust it.
Mar 28, 2026
Core Lightning v26.04rc1 turns splicing into a callable RPC layer, giving service nodes cleaner liquidity automation while leaving RC-stage caveats in place.
Mar 28, 2026
Aztec’s Alpha v4 disclosure forces builders to separate immediate prover upgrades from network fixes deferred to v5, and to reprice app risk now.
