The Weights of Empires

ByBit, Uniswap, Rome, and Other Dense Puzzles

Past Lives and PKIs

On the history of PKI, Russian cyber-attacks, and Ethereum Communism.

Shadow Protocols

Spies, knights, and MicroNovas in the sky

High Agency Shakeups

In this issue: * USAID Under Fire * AST2VEC: Teaching Machines to Read Code Like Humans * Big Tech Critic Takes Key FCC Role * Nockchain Technical Update USAID Under Fire Historically unprecedented developments have thrust the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) into a remarkable public controversy. The agency is now facing

The Case of Succinct vs. Fede

Reflections on how we announce (or fail to announce) security vulnerabilities in the ZK space.

Difficult Calculations

Ethereum in crisis, Trump in power, and a little lesson we just learned about PoW difficulty targeting.