Web3 & Chains Editor · since 2021
Sam covers web3 the way a security researcher would — following the infrastructure and the incentives, not the moon-talk. He's far more interested in how a chain actually works (and where it breaks) than in what its token did this afternoon.
KU Leuven researchers found wallets that keep tracking your address after you 'revoke' access, and cross-site leaks in 23 of 36 tested. Most vendors patched. MetaMask called it a known issue.
Sam Okafor · 12h ago · 6 min
Five Steam-published games doubled as crypto-stealing malware for nearly two years before the FBI made an arrest. The games had real names, real store pages, and real players. Here's how the scheme worked.
Sam Okafor · 1d ago · 5 min
HSBC, UBS, Citi and 14 other banks are now running tokenized deposits through a new Swift-built shared ledger. It's not a cryptocurrency, it's not public, and it's not for you yet — here's what it actually is.
Sam Okafor · 2d ago · 6 min