POAP Goes Dark: What the Sunset of Web3's Favorite Identity Primitive Reveals About On-Chain Reputation
POAP entered maintenance mode in March 2026 after minting 7.2 million attendance badges. Its quiet sunset reveals why Web3 identity is splintering into specialist tools — and what comes next for on-chain reputation.
Self-Sovereign Identity Hits $7B: Why eIDAS 2.0 Is Web3's Stealth Adoption Event
The EU's eIDAS 2.0 regulation forces digital ID wallets on 450 million Europeans by late 2026, turning self-sovereign identity into a $7B market and putting Web3's credential stack at the center of the largest forced-adoption event in digital identity history.
Hacken Q1 2026: $482M Stolen and the Quarter That Broke Crypto's Audit-First Religion
Hacken's Q1 2026 report puts Web3 losses at $482M across 44 incidents, with phishing and key compromises accounting for $378M — the quarter that permanently moved crypto's main attack surface off-chain.
InfoFi Is the New DeFi: How Information Finance Became Web3's $10B Sector in 2026
Prediction markets cleared $25.7B in March 2026 alone, Polymarket is talking at a $15B valuation, and Kaito just merged attention with on-chain wagers. InfoFi is the first post-DeFi category tracking to $10B in sector value this year.
Chrome 146 Shipped WebMCP. Web3 Just Got Its Biggest Distribution Unlock Ever.
Chrome 146's WebMCP API lets websites expose structured tools to AI agents through navigator.modelContext, collapsing the wallet-install funnel and giving Web3 protocols a direct path to 3.83 billion browser users via x402 and AP2 payment rails.
Lens Protocol V3 on ZKsync: The SocialFi Layer 2 Bet
Lens Chain migrated 650K profiles and 12M posts onto a ZKsync validium with Avail DA and GHO gas. Inside the stack, the bet, and why SocialFi needs its own L2.
SEC Chair Atkins' DeFi Innovation Exemption: The Informal Safe Harbor Behind $95B of Permissionless Finance
SEC Chair Paul Atkins has reshaped U.S. DeFi regulation through speeches, staff statements, and closed investigations. What $95B in permissionless TVL now depends on — and why builders should design for the CLARITY Act, not enforcement discretion.
Ketman Project: How 100 North Korean Operatives Slipped Inside Web3
An Ethereum Foundation-backed investigation identified 100 North Korean operatives embedded across 53 crypto projects — turning Web3's hiring funnel into its most exposed attack surface.
Google A2A vs Anthropic MCP: The Agent Protocol Stack Web3 Builders Cannot Ignore
How Google's A2A and Anthropic's MCP became the two-layer protocol stack every Web3 builder now has to speak — and where x402, ERC-8004, and ERC-8183 fit underneath.