IotexPad is a launchpad and incubator for projects with over 112,000 Twitter followers and a strong VC backing. As such, it should be a priority for them to make sure their own launch goes as smoothly as possible. But here is what actually happened…. For their recent launch on the…

Sniping bots. The enemy. We all know that snipe bots cause a lot of harm to new projects. But how? How exactly do they work? — What is a sniping bot? At its core, a sniping bot is a script that searches for new listings on one or multiple AMMs (could be on any blockchain: Ethereum, BSC, Matic, etc.). Some bots try to snipe every single listing, others look for specific ones, for example when the initial liquidity (provided by the…

Crypto is cool. DeFi is brilliant. Yet, the same story repeats: First come the geeks, then come the traders, then come the trader geeks with bots that are much quicker than any human traders. Technological innovation is great, but sniping bots make it absolutely unfair for the common retail investor…

111PG was created out of frustration faced by pretty much every project trying to list on Uniswap, Paraswap, and other AMMs only to be front-run by sniping bots who drive up the token price and then dump their tokens on the projects community. This creates resentment among community members and…

Public service announcement: just because the Merge happened doesn’t mean that MEV attacks are history. Vulnerabilities persist. Remember: code is king, so make sure yours is not going to leave you caught with your pants down and your ETH drained. One arbitrage bot just learned that the hard way, as detailed by Bert Miller, who spotted the incident and wrote about it in this Twitter thread we’re paraphrasing for you

It’s official. At 6:43 a.m. UTC, on September 15th, Ethereum’s Merge was initiated and was finalized about 15 minutes later to the great excitement of the 41,000+ viewers of the YouTube «‎Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party»‎ and local viewing parties wherever there is a crypto community. With this switch from PoW to PoS, Ethereum cut 99.99% of its energy usage (estimated around 0.02% of global energy usage, roughly the equivalent of Finland). It also eliminated the role of miners, relying instead on a system of validators.

One of blockchain technology’s cornerstones is an emphasis on security. After all, crypto comes from cryptography. But there is one security layer that blockchain tech is having as hard a time protecting as any other technology: the human factor. Here are five common scam tactics to be aware of and avoid in order to do your part in keeping your assets safe — 1. Keep your seeds safe Early on, blockchain developers realized that a randomly generated phrase of 12 words (sometimes 24 or another number) is much more secure than your best pA$$w[]Rd attempt, and easier to remember too. You can ue your seed phrase to unlock MetaMask, for example, or restore your funds from a lost…

With hundreds of new crypto projects launching every month, how do you know which ones are worth investing into? How do you know which are solid and which are probably scams or rug pulls? …

The CEX vs DEX debate is as old as the early DEXs (if not earlier) but usually focuses on the trader/investor’s perspective. Let’s now look at this decision from the viewpoint of a crypto project. Certainly, listing on one or another has its set of benefits and problems. But for true DeFi pioneers, the answer is obvious. — Reach While a listing on the centralized Coinbase or Binance is highly converted, they tend to only take established projects. For wide early adoption among people actually passionate about the DeFi space, DEXs are the way to go. …