10 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #06: TON gave a hundred days' notice, and 0.11% left
A bridge with $15m inside closed on 1 September after a hundred days of warnings and zero fees. Almost nobody came for the money.
Blockchain & Web3
Smart contracts, audit preparation, tokenization, and on-chain integrations — written from shipping web3 products since 2022.
Web3 development6 min read
A clean report that lied: how 420 live pairs became dead ones
Our scanner promised to check all 577 pools of a dying chain and checked 157: three lines of code turned a failed read into 'nothing here'.
13 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #05: DFK Chain is dead, and $236,000 stayed inside
We measured one dying chain five times in a month. Half the money left in six days — and the largest holder of what stayed is an abandoned contract.
8 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #04: DFK Chain dies in four days, and the money hasn't moved
We measured the same dying chain twice, eight days apart. The liquidity is still there, 84% of it inside two contracts the wallet never shows.
6 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #03: Polygon dropped Erigon, and historical eth_getProof went with it
The first deadline the board named in advance has fired — Gnosisscan is gone. Polygon's Erigon sunset quietly took historical proofs with it.
6 min read
What the registry of a dying chain revealed
We built a contract registry for DFK Chain two weeks before shutdown. 84% of liquidity sits in staking, a fifth of it in a long-replaced contract.
7 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #02: LayerZero cuts 20 chains, and on Taiko 30,836 holders share $12,376
LayerZero ends offchain support for 20 chains and Stargate exits five. Polygon's public RPCs are already gone, and Porto's funds deadline has passed.
7 min read
The audit confirmed the generator existed. It did — and it was never called
For five years Coldcard drew randomness from the wrong generator. Review never caught it, because it checked that the code was there, not that it ran.
6 min read
DFK Chain sunset: what to do before 28 August
DFK Chain is retired on 28 August 2026. What the announcement says, where it stops, and the three places assets hide that a wallet balance will not show you.
7 min read
Infra Graveyard Weekly #01: Polygon's Erigon namespace is gone, and your provider picked the date
Polygon dropped the Erigon namespace, Etherscan cut a fourth chain, Zapper's API goes dark tomorrow — this week's crypto infrastructure deprecations.
6 min read
AI broke a post-quantum signature in 60 hours. The signature is not the problem
HAWK survived two years of expert review and did not survive a weekend with Anthropic's model. What that breaks is an assumption inside your architecture.
5 min read
You pay an auditor to rebuild context. Here is what to hand over up front
An auditor charges for time, and the first few days are spent rebuilding context. Four things we built for our own scanner that reads other people's contracts.