Web fundamentals
TLS: encrypted traffic can still reach a scam website
Transport security protects a connection; it does not validate the business at the other end.
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Wallets & security
Token approvals outlive a trade
A spending permission is separate from connecting a wallet or completing one swap.
Market structure
Token unlocks: measure the newly transferable supply
A calendar event is not the same as an observed sale.
Wallets & security
Token-2022 extensions
Solana Token-2022 adds optional behaviours such as fees and hooks.
Wallets & security
Token-2022: read every authority, not just the ticker
A familiar token name can hide a different set of controls.
Blockchain fundamentals
Token-standard boundaries
A standard specifies interfaces, not value or honest administration.
Market structure
Token-unlock framing
An unlock creates transfer capacity, not proof of an immediate sale.
Crypto history
Tornado Cash: the 2025 delisting belongs in the history too
The sanctions designation, its removal and cases against individuals are separate legal events.
Blockchain fundamentals
Transaction malleability: when an identifier changes
A transaction reference is a hash of a defined serialisation, so the exact fields included matter.
Wallets & security
Transaction simulation: useful evidence with a state boundary
A successful preview is not a guarantee of a future execution.
Wallets & security
Transfer hooks: the extra programme inside a transfer
Read the additional logic before assuming a token behaves like a simple balance.
Chains & networks
TRON: resources, tokens and issuer control
Cheap transfers still depend on the correct asset, permissions and destination.
MASTR research
TRUMP: 30 pools, two dominant markets
The difference between indexed liquidity, active liquidity, fees and money actually withdrawn.
MASTR research
TRUMP: the wallets used again after the rally
MASTR's August 2026 investigation follows allocation releases, staging wallets and a reused destination route.
Binance, CZ & Trump
TRUMP: who owns the supply and earns the trading revenue?
The issuer's own disclosures explain why buyers and affiliated businesses have different incentives.
Crypto history
TRX and BTT celebrity promotion cases
The SEC's 2023 action included allegations against Justin Sun and settlements with several celebrity promoters.
KOLs & promotion
TRX and BTT: the 2023 celebrity-promotion cases
Named settlements must be separated from the allegations against Justin Sun and his companies.
Market structure
TVL without executable depth
Pool value sits outside active ranges or in assets unable to absorb a sale.
Liquidity, prices and pool rules
TWAP and VWAP: averages answer different questions
Time weighting, volume weighting and executable liquidity should never be collapsed into one number.
Wallets & security
Typed data: readable fields still need interpretation
A structured signature request can authorise an action you did not intend.
Market structure
Undisclosed insider allocations
A community launch can remain concentrated through private wallets, nominees or agreements.
Liquidity, prices and pool rules
Uniswap v4 hooks: a shared exchange core, different pool behaviour
The hook contract belongs in the explanation of the pool, not in a footnote.
Wallets & security
Upgrade authority and the limits of renounced ownership
Removing one permission may leave another route to changing the system.
Wallets & security
Upgradeable proxies: the address can stay while the rules change
A proxy separates the location holding state from the implementation supplying execution logic.
Blockchain fundamentals
UTXO selection
A Bitcoin transaction consumes prior outputs and creates new ones.
Blockchain fundamentals
Validity rollups: proving a state transition
A proof can establish compliance with an encoded computation while leaving other dependencies outside it.