Proof of Reserves is a verification method that allows cryptocurrency exchanges and other custodial services to publicly show that they hold sufficient assets to cover all user deposits. Learn more with Hacken.
Who is Lazarus? Discover how North Korea’s hacking group uses every malicious tactic to steal your digital assets.
The blockchain world faces numerous security threats that emerge at an alarming rate and adapt to new and evolving environments. Among these, the honeypot scam is a particularly popular form of fraud. In February 2024, a single cybercriminal executed multiple honeypot scams, successfully stealing approximately $3.2 million from victims. This incident involved at least nine
Ever since the existence of Bitcoin, a digital innovation world has been enabled, and digital currencies and technological solutions have appeared based on decentralized and peer-to-peer principles. Bitcoin was envisioned for use in payments, but as it grew, issues about scalability also increased to a large extent. Scalability issues in the Bitcoin network today include
Blockchains have emerged as independent ecosystems of global financial activity. Ensuring the blockchains’ availability, validity, and security are the consensus mechanisms that extend to the transactional foundations within the blocks of the blockchain. For PoS, which has become the most popular consensus mechanism, the amount of staked capital is the determining factor that proportionally increases
Learn how DePIN democratizes infrastructure management using blockchain technology and crypto rewards. Explore its potential and challenges.
Bitcoin network is secure, decentralized, but not scalable. Explore how Layer 2 solutions (Lightning, Stacks, Liquid, Rootstock) unlock Bitcoin-native trading and dApps.
WebAssembly has emerged as a portable and performance-oriented virtual machine, making it an appealing target for Web3 developers.
As a blockchain auditor with the lowest post-audit exploit rate on the market, we at Hacken want to offer our expert review of smart contract auditing tools to help Web3 developers deploy more secure code.
