What is an embedded wallet, and is it really self-custody?
An embedded wallet has no seed phrase, but the key still exists. Four questions that tell you whether you actually control it.
DeFi 101
What is a fake dApp, and how do you check before you connect?
Impersonation scams grew 1400% in 2025. How spoofed dApps copy real crypto apps, what you're actually signing, and how to check before you connect.
Session keys and auto-confirm: what you're really turning on
97% of EIP-7702 delegations pointed to attacker contracts. What session keys and auto-confirm grant, and the limits that bound them.
This Week in Crypto (August 3–10): BIP-110 Forks and Dies in Two Blocks, BTCPay Drains Merchant Lightning Nodes, and the CLARITY Act Finally Gets a Date
If last week BIP-110 was dead on arithmetic, this week in crypto it died on the chain — a real fork, at a real block, that produced two blocks and stopped. Bitcoin's infrastructure then took a second hit in seven days, draining merchants' Lightning nodes. Around those:
What a Smart Contract Audit Does and Doesn't Cover
An audit reviews code at one commit. Roughly 75% of capital drained from Web3 fell outside any audit scope.
Should You Split Funds Across Multiple Crypto Wallets?
Chainalysis logged 158,000 personal wallet compromises in 2025. Splitting funds across two or three wallets caps what one bad signature costs.
How Fake Staking Sites Work, and How to Spot One
A fake Flare staking site took $8.5M in eight days. How both fake staking models work, and nine checks before you stake.