On some Ethereum layer-2 networks, more than half of all gas is now burned by bots scanning for MEV (maximum extractable value) — and they pay only a small fraction of the fees relative to that load. What used to… Read More »Why Ethereum’s MEV Bots Are Burning Half the Gas — and How Privacy Tech Could Be the Unexpected Fix
The gap between ransomware threats and organizational defenses is widening, and machine identities are at the center of that divide. Even as ransomware remains a top concern for security teams, most formal playbooks still focus almost exclusively on human users… Read More »Ransomware Playbooks Ignore Machine Identities — And Attackers Are Exploiting It
Introduction to PostgreSQL Change Data Capture and Auditing When I first started adding auditing to PostgreSQL applications, I did what most developers do: I threw together a few AFTER triggers and a generic audit_log table. It worked for a while,… Read More »PostgreSQL Change Data Capture with Logical Decoding and Event Triggers
The CLARITY Act was pitched as the long-awaited rulebook for U.S. digital assets — a way to give crypto markets a “clean lane” to operate in. Over the past week, that framing has started to look incomplete. The legislative fight… Read More »How the CLARITY Act Became a Battle Over Who Pays Americans to Hold Digital Dollars