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Reading Crypto News

Six evergreen frameworks for decoding crypto news — hack post-mortems, regulation, ETF flows, supply events, stablecoin depegs, and protocol upgrades — built around 2025–2026 events as teaching cases.

  1. 01

    How to Read a Crypto Hack Post-Mortem

    A five-step checklist for reading crypto hack post-mortems like a primary source, applied to the Bybit, Drift, and Kelp DAO exploits.

    10 min read · intermediate

  2. 02

    Regulation 101: MiCA, GENIUS Act, and What They Mean

    A decoder ring for two frameworks driving crypto headlines: MiCA in the EU and the GENIUS Act in the US. What they cover, who they touch, and which dates matter.

    9 min read · intermediate

  3. 03

    ETF Flows: Signal vs Noise

    Daily bitcoin ETF flow numbers are the most-screenshotted data in crypto. Here is how to decode what a $500M print actually represents.

    10 min read · intermediate

  4. 04

    Halvings, Burns, and Supply Events

    A field guide to crypto supply events: issuance cuts, burns, and unlocks. With Bitcoin's 20M milestone, ETH's post-Dencun reality, and 2026's unlock wave.

    9 min read · intermediate

  5. 05

    Stablecoins: When a Dollar Isn't a Dollar

    A reading framework for stablecoin depeg headlines: the four peg-event patterns, three canonical case studies, and how MiCA and the GENIUS Act reshape the map.

    11 min read · intermediate

  6. 06

    Protocol Upgrades: How to Evaluate a Hard Fork

    A framework for reading protocol-upgrade news: taxonomy, governance pathways per chain, contention signals, and the Taproot vs Bitcoin Cash case studies.

    8 min read · intermediate

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