Month: May 2025

State of Crypto: Someone Tried to Scam Me (Probably)

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Coinbase won’t call customers to warn them that their accounts may have been compromised. It’s a common scam vector. Still, someone tried it on me. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Account compromise The narrative Last weekend, … Read more

Slate Auto FAQ: your questions answered

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Alright, we get it. Y’all are excited about Slate. We thought the little Slate Truck was cool, but based on the number of clicks and comments on our Slate Auto articles so far, you’d like to know more. Many of you wrote in with questions and more than a few people raised some doubts. So, … Read more

Privacy Tech Gets an Upgrade: DPV Makes ISO-27560 Ready for Real-World Use

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:::info Authors: (1) Harshvardhan J. Pandit, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, and Cybersecurity and Data Protection Group, National Standards Institute, Ireland (me@harshp.com) (2) Jan Lindquist, Privacy and Security Group, Institute for Standards, Sweden (jan@linaltec.com); (3) Georg P. Krog, Signatu AS, Oslo, Norway (georg@signatu.com). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Overview … Read more

Into the Dark Forest: Engineering Working DeFi Arbitrage

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1. Introduction — Into the Dark Forest Late one night, Dan Robinson, a researcher at the investment firm Paradigm, saw a distress call in the Uniswap Discord channel. Someone had accidentally sent tokens worth about $12,000 not to another user, but to the Uniswap contract itself, where they seemed irretrievably lost. Robinson, however, saw a glimmer of hope. … Read more

Building Toffee: How I’m Tackling the Messy Truth About Debt, One Line of Code at a Time

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In the middle of a late-night coding session, somewhere between refactoring state logic and wondering if I had over-engineered my onboarding flow again, I asked myself: Why hasn’t anyone made it easier to actually get out of debt, like, really out of it? Not just track balances. Not just make budgets. But actually guide people … Read more

The Great Privacy Comparison: ISO Standards Take on Europe’s GDPR Requirements

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:::info Authors: (1) Harshvardhan J. Pandit, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, and Cybersecurity and Data Protection Group, National Standards Institute, Ireland (me@harshp.com) (2) Jan Lindquist, Privacy and Security Group, Institute for Standards, Sweden (jan@linaltec.com); (3) Georg P. Krog, Signatu AS, Oslo, Norway (georg@signatu.com). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Overview … Read more