Notes
BITCOIN / BIP-353
If the DNS behind alice@domain.com is hijacked, nothing distinguishes diversion from a legitimate change. I tested an identity layer (OpenPGP, then Schnorr): what it adds, its limits, the tests, and why I doubt it is necessary.
POLKADOT / PRODUCTS
Polkadot Products: Triangle Hosts, .dot / dotNS, Bulletin, Statement Store, Identity, and the CypherTux sealed dead-drop (ctuxhello.dot) as a case study.
BITCOIN / LIQUID
About 4,000 BTC leave the Liquid peg on 6 September 2026. OP_RETURN thread, SideSwap peg-out, Elements v23.3.4, and what we reproduced in lab on the range-proof cache. Evidence in the forensics repo.
DEFI / AAVE
The rsETH hack cost Aave between $124M and $230M without a single line of its code being exploited. Three weeks later, the protocol is fighting before a federal judge in New York. Complete breakdown of the most structurally important DeFi case of 2026.
ETHERNAUT / EXPLOIT
Complete technical analysis of how I exploited 3 critical vulnerabilities in Ethernaut's Magic Animal Carousel using AI. Buffer overflow, XOR corruption & more.
LLM / CHESS
Can they follow the rules without cheating? I tested GPT-4o, Claude, and Grok in a chess game without a safety net. The results are telling.