The 2026 Crypto Shakeout: What 100+ Dead Projects Leave Behind
More than 100 dead web3 crypto projects — BitMEX, POAP, Tally, Zapper, Moonbeam and others — shut down in 2026. A data-driven look at why...
Blockchain
The Next Web3 Infrastructure May Be Confidential Computing
Consider an AI trading agent deployed on a public blockchain. The agent receives a user’s private strategy, reasons over it, and submits a transaction. Every...
Blockchain
TVL is Misleading: The Hidden Risks Inside Tokenized Assets
Total Value Locked (TVL) has become the default scoreboard for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs). This category now sits anywhere between $17 billion and $35 billion,...
Blockchain
The Web3 Developer Tool Stack in June 2026: Confidential Compute, Cross-Chain Execution, and AI Agent Wallets Go Mainstream
Arcium hits 1 million confidential computations on Solana, ZINC breaks into top 3 revenue protocols, and a wave of developer tools lands including MintLocke, Universal...
Blockchain
Confidential Smart Contracts on Base: A Deep Technical Look at Inco Lightning
Public blockchains made a radical trade. In exchange for trustlessness, they put everything on display — every balance, every transfer, every bid, every vote, forever....
Privacy
Best New Web3 Developer Tools of June 2026: MintLocke, Universal Gas Framework, Elytro, and MetaMask Go Agentic
MintLocke brings self-custodial DeFi automation, Universal Gas Framework solves cross-chain gas pain, Elytro gives AI agents spending power, and MetaMask launches its own AI Agent...
Blockchain
How to Build a Verifiable dApp on EigenCloud: A Developer’s Guide to the Full Stack
EigenCloud is more than a rebrand; it is a complete infrastructure stack for developers who need off-chain computation to carry the same trust guarantees as...
Artificial Intelligence
Zcash’s Invisible Money Printer: Inside the Orchard Soundness Bug
A four-year-old flaw in Zcash’s flagship privacy circuit could have minted counterfeit ZEC that no one would ever be able to see or find out...
Blockchain
Beyond Restaking: How EigenCloud Is Rebuilding Blockchain Infrastructure From the Ground Up
What started as EigenLayer, a restaking protocol that let Ethereum validators reuse staked ETH to secure additional services, has become something considerably more ambitious. In...
Blockchain
Quantus Q-Day Event Predicts the Demise of Bitcoin
Quantus convened cryptographers, blockchain builders, and investors at the Network School to thrash out how blockchains should upgrade for the post-quantum era. The event was...
Blockchain
Web3 Dev Tooling 2026: What Product Hunt’s Latest Launches Tell Us
If you want to know where Web3 development is going, stop reading conference recaps and start watching Product Hunt. The Web3 category on Product Hunt...
Blockchain
The Railway Outage and the Limits of Multi-Cloud Resilience
In May 2026, Railway, a full-stack cloud solutions platform, experienced a major service disruption after Google Cloud incorrectly suspended one of the company’s production accounts....
Infrastructure
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