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Monday, July 14, 2025

It doesn’t take a hack to take down your dApp. No reorg, no 51% attack. Just a hiccup in the right backend, and suddenly your wallet’s frozen, your tx won’t broadcast, and your frontend might as well be a JPEG. Not because the chain is down—because the interface is.

Web3’s dirty secret is that most of it still runs on Web2. Not your smart contracts, not your validator set—but the roads you take to get there. RPC endpoints. Indexers. Gateways. You’re not “interacting with the blockchain.” You’re asking someone else to interact for you, and hoping they’re online when you need them.

This isn’t a decentralization issue. It’s a central point of failure dressed up in swagger. You can call it permissionless all you want, but if every wallet, app, and explorer is piped through the same few backend services, all it takes is one outage to black out half the ecosystem. And when that happens, users don’t blame infra—they blame the chain.

The problem is worse because it’s invisible. No one tells you that your balance check hits a centralized API. That your tx routing relies on a third-party node. That your read/write permissions are actually rate-limited. You click. It works. Until it doesn’t.

And when it breaks, you’re not “sovereign.” You’re stuck.

That’s the real danger—fragility masked as convenience. Builders aren’t lazy. They’re realistic. Running your own node isn’t trivial. Syncing, uptime, hardware, monitoring—it’s not exactly plug-and-play. So they reach for the easy fix. Outsource the hard part. Cut a corner. Ship the feature.

But every shortcut adds debt. And one day, when the central pipe cracks, the whole illusion collapses. Not because the chain failed—but because everyone trusted the same front door, and no one had a backup key.

Decentralization isn’t a slogan. It’s a stack.

And if you don’t own every layer—you don’t own anything.

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•Security Risks of Stablecoins
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•A Popular Solana Tool on GitHub Conceals a Crypto-Stealing Trap
A fake GitHub repo, inflated stars, and a poisoned NPM package—one download later, your keys are gone.

•Your cat pics are at risk: the threat posed by the new SparkKitty Trojan
This campaign didn’t stop at TikTok clones. From adult clickbait to fake exchanges, the stealer’s claws are buried deep in mobile malware distribution.

•When Empty Means Valid: Exploiting MPT Proof Verification for an Alternative Truth
A critical bug in MPT proof verification let attackers quietly slip fake exclusions past on-chain defenses. If you didn’t hit a return or revert, the function just nodded and waved them through.

•Can you trust a DeFAI agent?
DeFAI agents don’t just crunch numbers—they move your money. If they hallucinate or get manipulated, they’re not “wrong,” they’re dangerous.

The most gangster hack in history didn’t steal coins — it broke uranium. Stuxnet infiltrated an air-gapped facility using USB drives like they were ICBMs. While the world watched sanctions, America and Israel rewrote geopolitics with malware that killed machines and left zero fingerprints. This wasn’t a bug — it was a declaration.

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