Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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DeFi's Shadow Contagion: When a $25M Hack Triggers $500M in Cascading Losses
A $25M stablecoin exploit cascaded into $500M+ of losses across Morpho, Fluid, and Euler — and DeFi's unmapped composability chains now resemble 2008's CDO plumbing.
Ethereum Hegota: The Post-Glamsterdam Fork and Ethereum's 18-Month Three-Fork Pipeline
Ethereum core developers have named the upgrade following Glamsterdam 'Hegota,' locking in three hard forks across 18 months. Here is what ships, what slips, and why L2s are watching.
Figure + loanDepot: Blockchain Mortgages Take On a $23T Market and MERS's 45-Day Paper Trail
Figure's partnership with loanDepot moves blockchain-native mortgage origination into top-10 non-bank lending. The $23T U.S. mortgage market finally has a production-scale alternative to MERS's 45-day paper trail.
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.
Hinkal Brings Institutional Privacy to Solana: $400M in Confidential Volume and a Compliant Answer to Tornado Cash
Hinkal's March 2026 Solana launch adds $400M in confidential volume to a compliance-first privacy stack built on ZK proofs, TEEs, and stealth addresses — signaling how institutional DeFi finally gets privacy without inheriting Tornado Cash's regulatory fate.
Meteora's New LP Portfolio Page Could Be DeFi's Bloomberg Terminal Moment
Meteora's new LP portfolio page brings real-time fee tracking, realized P&L, and shareable liquidity cards to Solana — and may end DeFi's spreadsheet era.
Seven Phone Calls and a $5 Million Deal: The Milei-Libra Scandal Becomes Latin America's Defining Crypto Reckoning
Court documents link Argentine President Javier Milei to seven phone calls with a key LIBRA insider on the night of the $251M rug pull — and a draft $5M payment agreement. How the scandal reshapes Latin America's crypto trust crisis.
Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Without a Soft Fork at $200 a Transaction
A new StarkWare paper shows Bitcoin holders can retrofit quantum resistance today without a soft fork — for about $200 per transaction. Here is who that actually helps.
Sentio Hits Kraken as $ST Goes Live: Can a TypeScript-First Indexer Crack The Graph's Data Throne?
Kraken's April 15, 2026 listing of Sentio's $ST token puts a TypeScript-native, compute-metered indexing network into fiat-tradeable range — and forces the Web3 data layer to finally pick between decentralization and convenience.