October 8, 2026
Bonus Abuse in Crypto: How Reward Farmers Exploit Airdrops and Referrals
Bonus abuse means farming airdrop, referral, and deposit rewards with many wallets. See how crypto reward farmers operate and how projects stop them.
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Research on sybil resistance, on-chain reputation and bot detection — from the team filtering bots for Linea, Somnia and Soneium.
September 30, 2026
Refund Abuse in Crypto Commerce: Chargebacks, Irreversible Delivery, and How On-Ramps Fight Back
Refund abuse exploits refund, return, and chargeback processes. Learn why crypto on-ramps face irreversible delivery and how on-chain reputation helps.
September 30, 2026
Payment Fraud at Crypto On-Ramps: How Stolen Cards and Chargebacks Get Caught
How payment fraud works at fiat-to-crypto on-ramps, the main attack types, warning signs, and the layered detection stack, including on-chain reputation, that catches risky payments before irreversible settlement.
September 30, 2026
Free Trial Abuse in Crypto: How Sybils Drain Free Tiers, Faucets, and API Credits
Free trial abuse lets sybils drain crypto RPC and API free tiers, testnet faucets, and trial credits. Learn how to detect and prevent it on-chain.
September 30, 2026
Crypto Account Takeover: How Wallets Get Hijacked and Caught Early
Crypto account takeover is when attackers hijack a wallet or exchange account via phishing, key theft, or malicious approvals. See the signs and defenses.
September 30, 2026
Card Testing at Crypto On-Ramps: How Fraudsters Validate Stolen Cards
Card testing runs tiny transactions to validate stolen cards. Learn why crypto on-ramps are prime targets and how to detect the attack pattern.
September 28, 2026
Residential Proxy Detection: How Sybil Farmers Cloak Wallets
Residential proxy detection spots traffic hidden behind real consumer IPs. See how sybil farmers cloak fake wallets and the signals that expose them.
September 27, 2026
Proxy Detection for Web3: Datacenter, Residential & Mobile Exits
Proxy detection classifies whether a connection uses a datacenter, residential, or mobile proxy, a VPN, or Tor, and why wallet farms rely on it.
September 27, 2026
Proxy and VPN Detection API for Web3 Anti-Sybil
A proxy and VPN detection API flags VPNs, proxies, residential proxies, and Tor in real time. Here's how it fits a Web3 anti-sybil stack.
September 26, 2026
VPN Detection: How It Works and Catches Airdrop Farming
VPN detection spots masked connections via IP reputation, geo mismatches, and network fingerprinting — plus why airdrops add on-chain reputation.
September 26, 2026
How Sybil Farmers Use Anti-Detect Browsers for Airdrops
Anti-detect browsers let one sybil farmer run hundreds of airdrop wallets by spoofing fingerprints. See how the tools work and how projects catch them.
September 26, 2026
Account Sharing Detection in Token-Gated Web3 and DAOs
Account sharing detection spots when one wallet serves multiple people, flagging shared seed phrases, delegated access, and pooled DAO votes.
September 25, 2026
New Account Fraud in Web3: Why Fresh Wallets Are High-Risk
New account fraud uses fake or fresh accounts to farm rewards. Learn why new Web3 wallets are high-risk and how to score them before granting airdrops.
September 25, 2026
Fraud Detection Software Meets Web3: On-Chain Reputation and PoH ID
Fraud detection software flags scams, bots, and abuse in real time. See how Web3 protocols add on-chain reputation and Proof-of-Human ID to stop sybils.
September 25, 2026
Ban Evasion Detection in Web3: How Banned Wallets Come Back and Get Caught
Ban evasion detection links a banned actor's new wallets, devices, and IPs back to them using on-chain funding trails, transaction-graph analysis, and persistent reputation scoring.
September 23, 2026
Promo Abuse in Crypto: How Reward Farmers Exploit Quests and Exchanges
Promo abuse is the fraudulent exploitation of sign-up bonuses, referrals, and quest rewards. A technical breakdown of how crypto reward farmers exploit exchanges and quests, the signals that expose them, and how to stop payouts to sybils.
September 23, 2026
Device Fingerprinting vs On-Chain Analysis in Web3
Device fingerprinting reads browser signals; on-chain analysis traces funding graphs. See how Web3 layers both to catch sybils and farmers.
September 22, 2026
Proof of Humanity vs. Proof of Personhood: How Web3 Verifies Real Users
Proof of humanity and proof of personhood both verify real, unique humans online. See how they differ and how Web3 filters bots and sybils.
September 22, 2026
Decentralized Identity in Web3: Verify Users Without KYC
Decentralized identity verifies real Web3 users without KYC using DIDs, verifiable credentials, and on-chain proof of human to filter bots and sybils.
September 22, 2026
Airdrop Farming Rings Explained: How Teams Catch Sybil Operators
An airdrop farming ring runs hundreds of wallets to game one allocation. See how teams catch Sybil operators with funding graphs and humanness scoring.
September 20, 2026
Sybil Attack in Crypto: How One Person Fakes Thousands of Wallets
A Sybil attack in crypto is when one actor creates many fake wallets to gain outsized influence over a network or farm an airdrop. Learn how it works, how it differs from a 51% attack, documented airdrop cases, and how to prevent it.
September 20, 2026
What Is an On-Chain Reputation Score? How Wallet Scores Are Calculated
An on-chain reputation score rates how human and trustworthy a wallet is (0-1000) from its blockchain history. See the signals, ranges, and uses.
September 20, 2026
Bot Detection in Web3: Filter Farmers From Airdrops
Bot detection in Web3 filters quest and airdrop farmers using on-chain behavior, wallet clustering, and humanness scoring, not CAPTCHAs or IP blocks.
