Steve Racicot
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Ethereum’s New Encryption Plan Could Finally Stop Trading Bots From Front-Running You
Anyone who has traded on a decentralized exchange has probably lost a little value to an invisible predator. Bots that watch Ethereum’s public mempool — the waiting room where transactions sit before they’re confirmed — can spot a pending trade, jump in front of it, and profit at the trader’s expense. It’s called a sandwich…
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BitBox Patches Two Severe Hardware Wallet Vulnerabilities
Hardware wallets are supposed to be the safest place to keep cryptocurrency, which is exactly why it matters when the company behind one finds and closes a hole before anyone can walk through it. BitBox, maker of the BitBox02 hardware wallet, has shipped firmware version 9.26.5, closing two serious vulnerabilities discovered in its own devices…
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Ethereum’s Glamsterdam Upgrade Rewrites a Decade-Old Gas Rule
Ethereum developers are staring down a compatibility cliff. The Ethereum Foundation has issued a formal warning that its upcoming Glamsterdam network upgrade will break wallets, gas estimators, and smart contracts that rely on an assumption baked into the protocol since its earliest days: that sending ETH always costs exactly 21,000 gas. What’s Actually Changing For…