Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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Bitcoin Crashed When Hormuz Closed. Gold Hit a Record. So Much for Digital Gold.
Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz again and Bitcoin fell to $76,000 while gold printed an all-time high. The April 2026 crash is the cleanest evidence yet that the post-ETF Bitcoin market trades like the Nasdaq, not like gold.
Kairos and the Bloomberg Terminal Moment for Prediction Markets
Kairos raised $2.5M from a16z crypto to build a unified trading terminal for Polymarket and Kalshi — a bet that prediction markets have finally crossed the threshold where institutional tooling follows institutional flow.
KelpDAO's $292M Bridge Exploit: How One 1-of-1 Verifier Erased $14B of DeFi TVL in 48 Hours
A forged LayerZero message drained 116,500 rsETH from KelpDAO on April 18, 2026 — triggering a $14B DeFi TVL exodus, up to $230M in Aave bad debt, and a bitter fight over 1-of-1 verifier defaults.
45 Seconds to Drain Your Wallet: Inside Ledger's MediaTek Dimensity 7300 Exploit
Ledger's Donjon team extracted seed phrases from Android hot wallets in 45 seconds by exploiting an unpatchable boot ROM flaw in MediaTek's Dimensity 7300 — the same chip powering the Solana Seeker.
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.
Resolv Hack: How One AWS Key Minted $25M and Broke DeFi Again
A $100K deposit minted $25M in unbacked USR tokens after an attacker compromised a single AWS KMS key. The Resolv hack exposes how cloud infrastructure has become DeFi's weakest link.
Scroll's Research Moat: Why the zkEVM Built With Ethereum Foundation Cryptographers Still Matters in 2026
Scroll's zkEVM was co-developed with Ethereum Foundation researchers and audited by four independent circuit security teams. In a commoditizing zkEVM market, that research heritage is quietly becoming the industry's flight-to-quality.
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.
Tether's MiningOS Gambit: How a $150B Stablecoin Giant Is Rebranding as Bitcoin's Infrastructure Layer
Tether released its Bitcoin mining stack as open source under Apache 2.0. The real story isn't the software — it's a $150B stablecoin issuer repositioning itself as a Bitcoin infrastructure company on the eve of the GENIUS Act.