What Happens When Smart Contracts Break

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background 2.1 Ethereum Primer 2.2 Whitelisted Address Verification 2.3 Taint Analysis on Smart Contracts and 2.4 Threat Model Motivating Example and Challenges 3.1 Motivating Example 3.2 Challenges 3.3 Limitations of Existing Tools Design of AVVERIFIER and 4.1 Overview 4.2 Notations 4.3 Component#1: Code Grapher 4.4 Component#2: EVM Simulator … Read more

How to Find Smart Contract Vulnerabilities Before Exploit Happen

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background 2.1 Ethereum Primer 2.2 Whitelisted Address Verification 2.3 Taint Analysis on Smart Contracts and 2.4 Threat Model Motivating Example and Challenges 3.1 Motivating Example 3.2 Challenges 3.3 Limitations of Existing Tools Design of AVVERIFIER and 4.1 Overview 4.2 Notations 4.3 Component#1: Code Grapher 4.4 Component#2: EVM Simulator … Read more

AI Is Eating the Browser—And That’s a Good Thing

The web is no longer just a place for browsing. It’s where modern business happens: sales, support, onboarding, research, and operations. Yet most automation tools weren’t built for this environment. They are fragile, hard-coded, and break the moment a webpage changes. Manual work still dominates. Research by Freshworks from 2024 shows 73% of B2B teams … Read more

Europe Clings to CBDCs as U.S. Courts Stablecoins: Who Has It Right?

The White House has declared “Crypto Week”, a push to lead to clarity for cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The industry is eagerly waiting for three different bills, the “CLARITY Act” [1]*, the “GENIUS Act”[2]*, and the “Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act”[3] to pass this week and is hoping for a positive impact on the sector. The … Read more

AI Race With China Risks Undermining Western Values

As China surges toward AI dominance, the West must ask: what kind of future should it be building? By contrast, the British Government has pledged to Mainline AI into the public sector. There’s going to be a modest supercomputer in Edinburgh, and we are partnering with META, a company with colourful history in relation to safeguarding and ethics. But we fall short … Read more

Blacklists Are Eating Crypto Alive. Here’s Why It Matters.

In the world of cryptocurrencies, a “blacklist” usually means a list of addresses, accounts, or smart contracts that are banned from sending, receiving, or using tokens in centralized platforms —sometimes, even in some “decentralized” platforms, too. Governments and regulators use these lists to enforce financial laws, but they also raise hard questions about privacy and … Read more

When Startup Advice Backfires: Avoiding Common Pitfalls That Slow Your Growth

If you’ve spent more than five minutes in the startup world, you’ve likely encountered phrases such as “fail fast,” “focus,” “raise before you need to,” or my personal favorite, “just ship it.” These phrases get repeated like gospel in demo days, podcasts, and Twitter threads. And hey, sometimes they’re right. But here’s the catch: context … Read more

TikTok is putting the spotlight on songwriters

TikTok will now let songwriters highlight tracks they’ve written or co-written directly on their profiles. The list of songs will live within the “Music” tab on their profile, similar to the one TikTok already offers for artists on the platform. Users who register as songwriters will also get a “Songwriter” label beneath their account name. … Read more