$1.83M USDT sweep into USDD AuthGemJoin — mule offramp on TRON
A TRON wallet aggregates ~665K USDT from four sources over ~3 weeks, then routes 1.83M USDT into USDD’s AuthGemJoin5—classic aggregate, swap…
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TRON listener gossip: BFS + Haversine from public IPs
Many investigators miss that TRON listener IPs are public—simulate how gossip might spread using BFS and Haversine distances between nodes.
In-skill Stripe payments demo (OpenClaw / ClawHub)
Minimal skill + repo demo: paywall agent skills with Stripe Payment Links, email verification, and local receipt—fork and swap in your own p…
Solana Signals Feed: early DEX momentum before trending lists
A live feed of abnormal Solana DEX activity—RVOL, velocity, buyer surges, and price breakouts—computed from 1h and 24h trade data, with a pu…
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Fresh long-form work: a lead story and supporting picks from the latest research, explainers, and notes.
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How to Track the Internet with Shodan API
A hands-on tutorial for using the Shodan API to query internet-connected devices, analyze network infrastructure, and understand security postures across global internet exposure data.
RESEARCH
Three-Dimensional Geometric Analysis of Bharatanatyam Postures: Understanding Dance Through Vector Mathematics
A mathematical analysis of Bharatanatyam postures using 3D geometry and vector field theory. Shows how classical Indian dance generates helicoids, toroids, and paraboloids through directed limb vectors. Also published on Zenodo.
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Big O Notation and Time Complexity Analysis for Uniswap V3 Smart Contracts
Big O time complexity analysis applied to Uniswap V3 smart contracts. How factory operations, pool lookups, and fee tier configuration scale as the protocol grows — and what it means for gas costs.
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Blockchain Data Observability: When Your Data Pipeline Goes Offline
How to build an observability pipeline for blockchain data infrastructure using OpenTelemetry. Covers metrics, logs, and traces for Solana trading bots and node operators to detect stale feeds and pipeline failures.
RESEARCH
Building a Basic Order Book in C++
Step-by-step implementation of a basic order book in C++ with order matching, buy/sell queues, and real-time market depth. Foundation for building trading system infrastructure.
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Wait a minute... There's research on Chaos Theory and the COVID-19
Research overview on applying chaos theory to COVID-19 epidemic modelling. How non-linear dynamics and chaotic systems explain pandemic spread patterns that classical epidemiology misses.
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Using Onchain Trades to Identify Regime Changes and Stationarity of Financial Data
How to use on-chain DEX trade data to detect regime changes and test stationarity of financial time series. Covers flow-to-volume ratios, ADF tests, and how to avoid training ML models on non-stationary data.
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Fading Toxic Flow: An Automated Mean-Reversion Strategy for DEX Liquidity Shocks
A microstructure alpha engine that detects isolated DEX liquidity shocks and systematically fades them, betting that temporary AMM price impacts revert to equilibrium. Full strategy design and implementation.
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C++ Trading - Building a DEX Market Maker: Simulating Uniswap V3 Liquidity Provision
How to build a DEX market maker in C++ that simulates Uniswap V3 liquidity provision in price bands, tracks fee earnings, and models how liquidity distribution changes as prices move.
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Google Dorks for Smart Contract Security: Finding Vulnerabilities Before They're Exploited
Using Google Dorking to find exposed smart contract vulnerabilities before attackers do. Practical search queries for auditors and security researchers, with a video walkthrough.
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Hedgey Finance Exploit: Six Months Later, Lessons Learned, and Code Revamped
Six months after the Hedgey Finance exploit ($2M lost on Ethereum + Arbitrum BONUS tokens), a post-mortem on the ClaimCampaigns.sol vulnerability, what was learned, and how the code was revamped.
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Diagnosing and Fixing Kafka Consumer Connection Issues in Java
Diagnosing Kafka consumer connection failures in Java caused by IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack networking conflicts. Covers cryptic authentication errors, Maven dependency resolution bugs, and systematic fixes.
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Life and Human Behaviour as a Fractal
An exploration of human behaviour and life patterns as fractal structures — self-similar systems repeating at different scales. A mathematical lens on personal change and decision-making.
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MEV Boost Relay Trade Profit Monitor: Tracking Builder Revenue from Private Mempool Trades
How to track MEV block builder revenue from private mempool trades. A literate programming dashboard that monitors balance changes across private mempool swaps and aggregates per-builder PnL statistics.
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Building an Order Execution Engine: Simulating EVM-Based Trading
Building an advanced order execution engine in C++ that simulates EVM-based trading, with order matching, fill prices, gas cost tracking, and slippage metrics — critical for evaluating trading performance.
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Four Addresses, Unlimited Authority! This Test Code Snippet Halted Polygon Nodes on Dec 18, 2025
A hard-coded test exception allowing four addresses to bypass validator rules halted Polygon Bor nodes on December 18, 2025. Analysis of the consensus failure, the patch, and what it reveals about validator set security.
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The End of EOAs? How RIP-7212 Changes Everything
RIP-7212 introduces secp256r1 precompile support on Ethereum rollups, enabling hardware-backed signatures and passkey-based account abstraction. Here's what changes and why it matters.
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Tornado Cash Intelligent Demixer: Transaction Attribution Through Behavioral Analysis
A proof-of-concept algorithm that matches Tornado Cash deposits to withdrawals using a 4-point behavioral scoring system. Demonstrates how transaction attribution can break mixer privacy guarantees.
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Why Large Trades Fail on DEX - From 5% Slippage to 10% Price Crashes
Why institutional-scale trades fail on DEX: at $10M+ notional, DEX slippage hits 10% and stays there. Data-driven analysis of the liquidity ceiling that routes large orders to OTC desks instead of Uniswap.
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Simulating a TRON Transaction's Gossip Trace from Public Listener IPs
A TRON transaction spreads across the network the same way a rumor spreads across a crowded room. This post takes 7,637 public TRON listener IPs from the TronScan nodemap, connects listeners within 800 km using the haversine formula, and walks a synchronous BFS wavefront outward from a synthetic Frankfurt origin — reaching 3,380 nodes in eight hops with visible geographic chokepoints and isolated islands. Covers what raw listener IPs reveal once paired with coordinates, and the random geometric graph and percolation mathematics underneath.
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Research
Cryptogrammar research documents market dynamics, execution mechanics, and infrastructure challenges that institutional traders face. Each piece combines theory with real-world data from live trading ...
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Colocation and Latency for Crypto Trading: Same-Provider vs Cross-Provider, Cross-Region
We benchmark latency from EC2 in Tokyo and US East 1 to AWS and GCP Europe endpoints using TCP/TLS timing. From AWS US East 1, connect time to AWS Europe is ~74–104 ms and to GCP Europe ~87–99 ms. From Tokyo to the same endpoints it is ~216–225 ms (AWS) and ~248–262 ms (GCP). Same provider is lower than cross-provider. Here's the methodology and how to run the script yourself.
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Is Python Too Slow for Crypto Trading? We Ran the Numbers.
Everyone says Python is too slow for trading. We benchmarked pure Python vs NumPy vs Pandas on 1M rows, then compared the results to actual on-chain block times. The answer depends entirely on which chain you're trading.
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6 ML Model Mistakes People Make With Crypto Data (And How to Fix Them)
Most crypto ML models fail before training ends. Here are the six mistakes killing model performance: raw inputs, wrong architectures, bad targets, and more.