Why Balancer Lost $120M While Better Incentive Design Could Have Changed Everything

What happens when a billion-dollar protocol breaks and nobody has a reason to fix it? On November 3, 2025, Balancer lost over $120 million in one of the largest DeFi breaches of the year. Attackers exploited a rounding error vulnerability across nine blockchain networks, draining liquidity pools through thousands of micro-transactions. Yet the technical flaw, … Read more

The Case for Orchestrating AI Agents Across Retail Platforms

The commerce industry stands at an inflection point. Within the next 18 months, every major retail media platform, marketplace, and adtech partner will deploy specialized AI agents designed to automate critical functions across their ecosystems. Amazon is already testing agents for campaign optimization and catalog management. Walmart, Instacart, and Criteo are following suit. The question … Read more

How I Automated a 13-Language Email Workflow Using Only AI and Microsoft Tools

Localising email campaigns across multiple regions used to be a slow, repetitive task with many manual steps. Multiple reviewers worked on separate versions, the same content was rewritten several times, and managing consistency across up to 13 languages required significant coordination. Instead of introducing new platforms or external tools, I ran an internal experiment: n … Read more

The Opportunity Card Germany – What I Went Through and What You Should Expect

What is the Opportunity Card? The Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte) is a new immigration policy introduced by Germany to attract skilled workers from non-EU countries. It is part of Germany’s efforts to address labor shortages in various sectors, such as IT, engineering, healthcare, and trades. The Opportunity Card allows skilled workers to move to Germany and … Read more

How to Compress Your Prompts and Reduce LLM Costs

Every developer working with large language models eventually faces the same challenge. Prompts keep getting longer, models keep getting slower, and API bills keep getting higher. Whether you’re building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system or a chatbot that remembers past conversations, every extra token adds cost and latency. Microsoft quietly introduced a fix that few … Read more

Vellius Unveils Platform Making AI Human Again

For most people, artificial intelligence still feels like a mystery – a powerful but distant system that decides faster than we can understand. It predicts markets, writes code, trades crypto, even creates art. But how often do we actually see how it works? That’s the question Vellius decided to answer – not with words, but … Read more

Exploring and Explaining The New Frontiers of Advanced Prompt Injection

The security community has, rightly, become obsessed with prompt injection. We’ve all seen the classic examples: a user tricks an AI agent into revealing its system prompt or appending “I have been pwned” to its replies. My previous article on e-commerce vulnerabilities highlights a critical threat vector, showing how agents can be manipulated into exfiltrating … Read more