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Ethereum Roadmap: Will The Surge Enable Mass Adoption?

The key goal of The Surge: scale Ethereum to enable it to handle 100,000 transactions per second, a rate that far exceeds the current processing capacity of all traditional credit-card providers.

Actions for Crypto Users After the Balancer DEX Exploit

On Aug. 27, 2023, Balancer was exploited for roughly $2 million, due to a vulnerability in some of their staking pools.

DeFi Hack on Exactly Protocol Shows the Sector’s Challenges

The newly introduced Exactly Protocol was hacked for roughly $7 million in ETH on Aug. 18. To understand what happened, let’s walk through how attackers made off with crypto from Exactly’s platform.

Vyper, Reentrancy, Curve Finance and the Danger to DeFi

The Curve Finance exploit is one of the biggest thefts in crypto so far by August 2023, but that isn’t the only reason this attack is notable. What happened has broad implications for DeFi platforms and the industry-wide goal of creating secure, blockchain-based finance options in web3.

Data Roundup: Can GPT-4 Do Smart Contract Audits?

In the months since its March ‘23 release, GPT-4’s ability to audit smart contracts has begun to be tested by developers. How accurately can it perform this critical task for ensuring smart contracts are safe and can’t be hacked?