Security & Best Practices

Stay protected in Web3 with essential blockchain security tips. Learn how to avoid phishing scams, protect private keys, detect rug pulls, and follow best practices for using wallets, dApps, and DeFi protocols safely.

Security Stories 2025 — Top Exploit Patterns and How to Audit Against Them

Security Stories 2025: Top Exploit Patterns & How to Audit Against Them If you’ve scanned enough incident write-ups, you’ll notice the same bugs on repeat: price oracles that can be nudged, reentrancy that evades a single guard, upgradeable proxy foot-guns, signature replay across chains, and missing allowlist or pause controls. This guide collects the exploit

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MEV for Non-Quants — Sandwiches, PBS, and How Users Can Reduce Losses

MEV for Non-Quants: Sandwiches, PBS, and Practical Ways to Reduce Losses You don’t need a PhD in market microstructure to keep more of your swaps. This guide explains what MEV actually is, how it shows up as worse prices and failed transactions, what Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) changed after Ethereum’s Merge, and most importantly the simple

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15-point framework for evaluating new tokens and protocols.

TOKEN TOOL HUB • RESEARCH • SAFETY • ON-CHAIN PROOF Due Diligence Checklist: A 15-Point Framework for Evaluating New Tokens & Protocols Use this professional 15-point checklist to systematically evaluate new crypto assets. Apply it before buying, providing liquidity, participating in airdrops, committing capital, or investing your time as a contributor. The goal is simple:

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Crypto Crime 2025: Drainers, Deep-Fake Scams and Defense (Approvals Hygiene, EIP-712)

Crypto Crime 2025: Drainers, Deep-Fake Scams & Defense (Approvals Hygiene, EIP-712) Drainers and phishing, not fancy zero-days, still cause most retail and creator losses. In 2025, the scams got smarter: deep-fake “support staff,” realistic airdrop pages, and EIP-712 prompts dressed up as harmless logins. This guide cuts the fear and adds discipline: how to read

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Post-Merge Ethereum UX Upgrades: EIP-7702, Safer Signing, and What It Means for Users

Post-Merge Ethereum UX Upgrades: EIP-7702, Safer Signing, and What It Means for Users Ethereum UX is shifting from “sign this hex” to human-readable intent, smart-account behaviors, and fewer foot-guns. This guide breaks down what EIP-7702 does, how it interacts with EIP-712 (typed data) and EIP-4337 (smart accounts), and what changes for approvals, multisig/MPC, and gas

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LRT Deep Dives: How to Read Risk Disclosures (caps, custody, loss socialization)

LRT Deep Dives: How to Read Risk Disclosures (Caps, Custody, Loss Socialization) Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) package “restaked collateral + yields from Actively Validated Services (AVSs)” into a single liquid token. That convenience hides complex risk plumbing. This guide shows you how to read LRT documentation like an underwriter: what caps really guard against, what

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How to Keep Your Seed Phrase Safe: A Complete Guide

How to Keep Your Seed Phrase Safe: A Complete Guide Your seed phrase (recovery phrase) is the master key to your crypto. Anyone who gets it can move your funds; if you lose it, nobody, not an exchange, not wallet support, not the blockchain can restore it. This guide gives you a practical, battle-tested process

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Regulatory Approaches Worldwide (landscape and comparison lenses)

Regulatory Approaches Worldwide: How Regions Supervise Crypto and Web3 A practical map of global frameworks: who needs a license, what rules apply, how stablecoins and market conduct are treated, and where privacy-preserving compliance fits. Heads-up: This is general education, not legal advice. Rules change and vary by country, business model, asset type, and licensing status.

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KYC/AML in Web3 (risk-based CDD, KYT, Travel Rule concepts)

KYC/AML in Web3 (Risk-Based CDD, KYT, Travel-Rule Concepts) How crypto businesses identify customers, monitor activity, and exchange information responsibly — without crushing user privacy or product velocity. Heads-up: This page is practical education, not legal advice. Rules differ by country and change quickly. Before you ship features or accept customer funds, confirm locally with counsel

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