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  • August 11 · 5 min

    Educational Byte: What Happens If Your Crypto is Stolen?

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/educational-byte-what-happens-if-your-crypto-is-stolen. Your crypto was stolen? Learn what happens next, when recovery is possible, and the key steps to take right away. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #crypto-scams, #crypto-security, #cryptocurrency-stolen, #how-to-recover-stolen-crypto, #cybersecurity, #stablecoins, #obyte, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @obyte. Learn more about this writer by checking @obyte's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Your crypto was stolen? Learn what happens next, when recovery is possible, and the key steps to take right away.

  • August 11 · 34 min

    HTLCs: How Lightning Moves Money Through Strangers

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/htlcs-how-lightning-moves-money-through-strangers. How Hash Time-Locked Contracts let strangers route Lightning payments trustlessly across a chain of nodes, using hashes and timeouts to guarantee no one loses f Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #lightning-network, #Bitcoin, #hashed-timelock-contracts, #htlc, #bitcoin-script, #lightning-routing, #multi-hop-payments, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @tobses. Learn more about this writer by checking @tobses's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. HTLCs are the trick that lets Lightning move money across nodes that don't trust each other. A payment is locked to a secret's hash, and each hop can only claim its funds by revealing that secret - which in turn lets the previous hop claim theirs. A time-lock guarantees that if the payment stalls, everyone gets refunded instead of losing money. It's how a payment hops through strangers safely, with no one able to steal in the middle.

  • August 10 · 7 min

    Building Lexi.AI: A Local-First Architecture for Sovereign AI

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/building-lexiai-a-local-first-architecture-for-sovereign-ai. Explore how Edge AI and data sovereignty can power private personal assistants with local inference, encrypted memory, and user-owned data. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #decentralize-ai, #decentralize-ai-hackathon, #ai-inference, #ai-infrastructure, #scalable-ai-compute, #lexi-ai, #open-source-ai, #local-first-ai, and more. This story was written by: @lexi9omega. Learn more about this writer by checking @lexi9omega's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Edge AI and data sovereignty can make personal assistants more private, resilient, and user-controlled by keeping sensitive data on-device, using encrypted memory, and relying on cloud or decentralized compute only when needed.

  • August 10 · 7 min

    Cashelix Announces CASX Token Presale Ahead of Blockchain P2P Payment Platform Launch

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/cashelix-announces-casx-token-presale-ahead-of-blockchain-p2p-payment-platform-launch. CASX introduces a structured crypto presale with predefined timelines, fixed round-specific hard caps, transparent tokenomics, and utility centered on the Cashe Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #crypto-presale, #btcwire, #press-release, #blockchain-development, #crypto-adoption, #crypto-exchange, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @btcwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @btcwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.

  • August 9 · 8 min

    Can Crypto Finally Work Like Regular Money?

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/can-crypto-finally-work-like-regular-money. Can crypto finally work like regular money? This article looks at stablecoins, crypto cards, overseas payments and the problems still holding everyday use back. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #crypto, #payments, #fintech, #finance, #crypto-adoption, #future-of-finance, #financial-markets, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @mkaufmann. Learn more about this writer by checking @mkaufmann's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Crypto is becoming easier to spend through stablecoins, payment cards and faster transfers. However, fees, tax rules, security risks and limited protection still stop it from feeling as simple and dependable as regular money.

  • August 8 · 15 min

    BIP-110 Is Coming: Can Bitcoin Users Take Back the Network?

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/bip-110-is-coming-can-bitcoin-users-take-back-the-network. Analysis of the literature and game theory around BIP-110, the Bitcoin soft fork that will put the power back into the plebs hands. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #bitcoin, #bip-110, #spam-on-bitcoin, #bitcoin-soft-fork, #arbitrary-data, #bitcoin-knots, #bitcoin-core, #uasf, and more. This story was written by: @eduardoprospero. Learn more about this writer by checking @eduardoprospero's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. The BIP-110 train remains on schedule. In this article, we go through the best articles about the soft fork, answering, commenting, and analyzing them.

  • August 8 · 18 min

    Token Debt Is the New Technical Debt

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/token-debt-is-the-new-technical-debt. The token became a unit of billing in 2020. 6 years later it is a discipline, with a definition, metrics and a research field. Here's what that changes for code Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #token-economics, #ai-agents, #technical-debt, #llms, #software-development, #code-quality, #developer-tools, #tokenomics, and more. This story was written by: @akucherenko. Learn more about this writer by checking @akucherenko's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Token economics is now a field of study — but every approach in its literature works on how the agent spends tokens. None touches the artifact it reads: your codebase. That is where token debt lives. Technical debt accumulates complexity for developers; token debt accumulates cost for AI agents. Language and framework are chosen once, at the start, when nobody is thinking about tokens — and the bill arrives on every agent pass, growing with the codebase.

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