Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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Smart Contracts Got Safer, Crypto Got Worse: Inside Q1 2026's Infrastructure Attack Era
DeFi smart contract exploits dropped 89% in Q1 2026, yet crypto still lost roughly $450M. The Trezor, Resolv Labs, and Drift Protocol incidents show why audits no longer cover the real attack surface.
Russia Just Made Bitcoin a Monetary Policy Tool — And the G20 Has No Playbook
Russia's Central Bank Governor publicly credited Bitcoin mining with strengthening the ruble — the first G20 monetary authority to treat hash rate as currency policy infrastructure. What this rewires for sanctions-era macro and what the rest of the G20 has to do next.
Solana's $650B February: How a Non-EVM Chain Became the World's Busiest Stablecoin Rail
Solana processed $650 billion in stablecoin transactions in February 2026 — more than Ethereum's $551B and the highest monthly volume on any blockchain. The data reframes which chain owns retail payments.
Solana's 99% Bet: Why the Foundation Thinks Humans Will Stop Touching the Blockchain by 2028
Solana Foundation CPO Vibhu Norby projects that AI agents will drive 99% of on-chain transactions within two years — backed by 15M agent payments, 65% market share of agentic activity, and 35M x402 transactions on Solana.
Solana DePIN's $2.9M Inflection: Lyft and T-Mobile Stopped Treating Crypto Hardware as a Hobby
Solana DePIN protocols hit $2.9M monthly revenue in March 2026 as Lyft adopts Hivemapper Bee Maps and Helium's carrier-offload deals with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Telefónica reshape the sector from speculation into procurement.
Solana's Post-Quantum Paradox: When 40x Signatures and 90% Speed Loss Threaten the Fastest Chain's Identity
Solana's first end-to-end post-quantum signature tests showed 40x larger signatures and a 90% throughput drop. Here is why Anza and Firedancer both chose Falcon, why Solana is uniquely exposed to a quantum break, and how the migration compares to Bitcoin's BIP-360 and Ethereum's account-abstraction path.
Crypto Valley's $728M Year: How a Swiss Town of 30,000 Captured 47% of European Blockchain VC
Switzerland's Crypto Valley raised $728M across 31 deals in 2025, capturing 47% of European blockchain VC. Inside the DLT Act advantage, Zug's talent flywheel, and how MiCA reshapes the runway.
Tether's Quiet $7.2B Bitcoin Stack: How USDT Profits Built the Largest Verified Private BTC Treasury
Tether quietly added 951 BTC in April 2026, pushing its reserve to 97,141 BTC and roughly $7.2B — the largest verified private corporate Bitcoin treasury, funded entirely from USDT operating profit.
Bitmine's 5 Million ETH Treasury: The MicroStrategy Playbook With a Staking Yield Engine
Tom Lee's Bitmine now holds over 5 million ETH and 4.21% of Ethereum's supply. Why staking yield makes the corporate treasury math fundamentally different from MicroStrategy's Bitcoin playbook — and where the forced-seller tail risks lie.