Published inChainArgosIs Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm Running An Unlicensed Money Transmitter While Out On Bail?Roman Storm, one of the developers of Tornado Cash charged with conspiring to operate a money transmitter, facilitating money laundering…Nov 26, 2024Nov 26, 2024
Published inChainArgoscbBTC & BTC-on-Tron BlacklistingDoes a wrapped bitcoin by another name smell as sweet?Sep 13, 20241Sep 13, 20241
Published inChainArgosBlockchain Tracing & DeterminismMuch like phrenology, blockchain tracing has seeped into jurisprudence and been undeservedly elevated to the level of forensic science. But…Sep 5, 2024Sep 5, 2024
Published inChainArgosHammering THORChain: It’s Totally Centralized With Hard-Coded Admin KeysBlockchains herald the promise of decentralization. But THORChain is not the blockchain you’re looking for if you care about such ideals…Sep 4, 2024Sep 4, 2024
Published inChainArgosThe Chainalysis Sanctions Oracle — When should you be concerned it’s late?Hopefully whoever relies on the Chainalysis “Sanctions Oracle” to make “critical decisions” doesn’t equate “critical” to mean “timely”.Aug 2, 2024Aug 2, 2024
Published inChainArgosIn Re: Examining SEC v. ConsensysFollowing our three part series on the details of MetaMask a brand new blog appeared with a first post addressing some of the same issues…Jul 20, 2024Jul 20, 2024
Published inChainArgosPart III of III: How MetaMask Bridge Really WorksPart 3 in a series of How MetaMask Really Works. This time we are going to show that the Bridge function — which we touched on last time —…Jul 16, 2024Jul 16, 2024
Published inChainArgosPart II of III: How MetaMask Staking Really WorksAs a follow-up to our piece revealing How MetaMask Swap Really Works we now take a look at how MetaMask Staking really works.Jul 15, 2024Jul 15, 2024
Published inChainArgosPart I of III: How MetaMask Swap Really WorksThink you know how MetaMask and specifically MetaMask Swap works? In this article, we take you through the inner workings (now with…Jul 10, 20242Jul 10, 20242
Published inChainArgosLaundering the Proceeds of Crime: Crypto’s Killer App?With the US approving spot bitcoin ETFs, can cryptocurrencies move beyond their shady reputation? What do current transaction volumes say…Jan 12, 20241Jan 12, 20241