David Chernay

Aug 26, 2026

The $625M Bridge Hack That Started With a Fake Job Offer

Ronin was 'nine validators.' It was really five keys inside one company, and nobody noticed for six days.

Aug 24, 2026

Crypto Clarified: $77K Bitcoin, and the Layer 2 you should actually use

Arbitrum vs. Base vs. Optimism vs. zkSync, plus we just launched on YouTube.

Aug 21, 2026

David's DeFi Deep Dive: BTC hit $75K, I added to HYPE, and the portfolio is leveling up

The Trump breakout, the second tranche by the rules, plus Synthetix, and a portfolio v2 you'll want to see.

Aug 19, 2026

David's Security Update: The $1B+ invisible tax bots charge you for trading

Your transaction sits in a public waiting room, and a free two-minute setting makes it invisible.

Aug 17, 2026

Crypto Clarified: The tokenomics table that would have saved a fortune

How to read a whitepaper like an investigator, plus why my HYPE starter is up 8% and I'm still not adding.

Aug 14, 2026

David's Defi Deep Dive: My HYPE starter is up 4.5%, and I'm still not adding.

Why discipline beats a good feeling, plus Drift, the perps exchange that refused to leave Solana.

Aug 12, 2026

David's Security Update: The $1.5B "decentralized" bridge that was one man's password

How to read any protocol for the hidden control that "trustless" is designed to hide.

Aug 10, 2026

The IRS now sees your crypto sales. Here's what it doesn't.

Crypto taxes 101, the DeFi trap, and the six-week HYPE watch finally resolves.

Aug 7, 2026

David's DeFi Deep dive: After six weeks, the HYPE watch just hit its line

Subtitle: The plan I made before I got emotional, plus Morpho, the lending protocol out-engineering Aave.

Aug 5, 2026

He was suspicious. The $25M video call changed his mind.

Deepfake founders, cloned voices, and the one verification habit that still stops them.

Aug 3, 2026

Crypto Clarified: A $292M hack triggered a $5.4B stampede. Here's why.

Staking, liquid staking, and restaking are three different risks wearing similar names.

Jul 31, 2026

David's DeFi Deep Dive: How the king of on-chain perps lost 90% of its market

dYdX bet the company on its own blockchain — the tradeoff, the Scanner score, and this week's portfolio

Jul 29, 2026

$320M minted from nothing — the Wormhole bridge hack

How cross-chain bridges get drained, and why "wrapped" assets carry a hidden dependency

Jul 27, 2026

The mechanic that turns a 5% dip into a crash

Perpetuals, funding rates, and liquidation cascades — the machinery behind crypto's wildest moves

Jul 24, 2026

David's DeFi DeepDive: DAI Is Decentralized. Mostly.

How the PSM quietly made USDC the backbone of DeFi's oldest stablecoin — and what Maker did about it

Jul 22, 2026

The Protocol You Audited Can Still Be Drained. Here's How.

What admin keys are, why most DeFi users don't know they exist, and the 20-minute Etherscan audit that changes that

Jul 20, 2026

The $8M Lesson Even Nexus Mutual's Founder Couldn't Avoid

What DeFi insurance actually covers — and the one attack it never will

Jul 17, 2026

$1 in Bribes. $2 in Yield. The Economy That Ran DeFi in 2022 — and Still Does.

How Convex built a meta-yield layer on top of Curve, became the most politically powerful protocol in DeFi, and what the CRV flywheel means for your positions today.

Jul 15, 2026

David's Security Update: The $200M rug where the team never left

How SafeMoon used your patience against you — and the 5 checks that catch a slow rug early

Jul 13, 2026

Crypto Clarified: Wall Street is quietly tokenizing a $30B market

What Real World Assets are — and the "on-chain isn't trustless" catch nobody mentions

Jul 10, 2026

Friday DeFi Deep-dive: The invisible $2B exchange behind DeFi's stablecoins

How Curve works, why the "Curve wars" happened, and the two scars still worth knowing

Jul 8, 2026

$182M, voted away in one transaction

The Beanstalk hack where nobody broke the code — they just followed the rules

Jul 6, 2026

Crypto Clarified: $48B now lives on Ethereum's "second layer"

Why your transactions cost pennies instead of $30 — Layer 2s explained

Jul 3, 2026

Complimentary Premium Preview: how 8.9M ETH ($15B) ended up in one protocol

What stETH really is — and why Ethereum's researchers are nervous about Lido's size

Jul 1, 2026

David's Security Update: The Bug That Split Ethereum in Two — And Still Hides in Protocols Today

How the 2016 DAO hack works, why the same vulnerability keeps reappearing in Compound forks and modern lending protocols, and the five checks to run before your next DeFi deposit.