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Independent on-chain investigator
The most prominent independent blockchain sleuth in crypto, known for exposing hacks, scams, stolen-fund trails, and manipulative actors.
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Co-founder of BanklessSeptember 17, 2026
Circle announced the Arc mainnet on September 16, 2026, describing the network as an open Layer 1 built for real-time money movement, financial markets infrastructure and what it calls "agentic economic activity. " Transaction fees on Arc are paid in USDC.
September 12, 2026
The disclosure surfaced on September 12, 2026, when Revolut confirmed to TechCrunch that it had released customer information after receiving fraudulent requests from what appeared to be a genuine government agency email address. No firewall was breached.
September 28, 2026
Blockchain analytics firm AMLBot says it traced approximately 4 BTC linked to the Bitget hack into Wasabi CoinJoin, a Bitcoin privacy protocol that pools transactions to obscure their origins.
September 22, 2026
SingularityNET disclosed on September 19 that an unauthorized party had gained access to part of its systems, marking a rare public security incident for one of the most prominent AI-blockchain projects in the space.