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May 19

The Decentraland Fake Mint Scam

I’ve previously written (in my Crime in the Metaverse Report for Elliptic: https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse) about how scammers were using Google ads to try to dupe unsuspecting victims to enter a fake Decentraland, connect their metamask and then inevitably drain their account. …

Decentraland

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The Decentraland Fake Mint Scam
The Decentraland Fake Mint Scam
Decentraland

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May 16

What is MEV?

An Overview of MEV In the cryptoverse, Maximal Extractable Value (MEV), is the practice of eeking out value by understanding what transactions are in the mempool and inserting/re-ordering them to squeeze some extra value based on this information. Mempool Article: https://tara-annison.medium.com/what-is-a-mempool-f6a403d4871e It was previously known as Miner Extractable Value however with Ethereum’s transition from…

Crypto

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What is MEV?
What is MEV?
Crypto

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May 12

Is crypto really the wild west of scams or is TradFi just as bad?

There’s no shying away from the fact that 2022 was a bad year for headlines about crypto crime — some estimates put the figure at $20billion for the year alone 😱and there’s plenty of twitter threads and websites tracking the various scams and attacks happening across the space e.g https://web3isgoinggreat.com/…

Crypto

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Is crypto really the wild west of scams or is TradFi just as bad?
Is crypto really the wild west of scams or is TradFi just as bad?
Crypto

3 min read


May 8

Explaining BRC20: The New Standard for Fungible Tokens on Bitcoin

In the world of crypto, innovation and evolution are the rules of the game — and whilst many see the Bitcoin blockchain as a slow moving tanker in a sea of more nimble and inventive protocols, the spotlight has recently been shining on the number one blockchain with the introduction…

Crypto

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Explaining BRC20: The New Standard for Fungible Tokens on Bitcoin
Explaining BRC20: The New Standard for Fungible Tokens on Bitcoin
Crypto

7 min read


May 3

🥷The State of Metaverse Crime🥷

Almost every crime from the real world will be possible in the metaverse, and there’s even going to be some crimes which arise from the metaverse itself. So what’s the current state of crime in the metaverse? How big a problem is it? …

Crypto

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🥷The State of Metaverse Crime🥷
🥷The State of Metaverse Crime🥷
Crypto

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Mar 22

Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District

Decentraland has 90,601 parcels of land; a mixture of developments and greenfield spaces yet to be built on. There are 9 plazas (the green areas of the map) which are owned by the Decentraland Foundation and created for common use — think of these like parks in the real world…

Crypto

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Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District
Decentraland Districts and the Drama of The Red Light District
Crypto

6 min read


Mar 17

Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime

Although not a new crime, romance scams like pig butchering, have been hitting the trad media and crypto news headlines for the last few months. This has been partly driven by documentaries such as the hit Netflix show The Tinder Swindler and also due to brave victims coming forward to…

Romance Scam

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Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime
Pig Butchering and Scam Centres: The crime behind the crime
Romance Scam

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Feb 22

👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse

Seeing Whether you’re entering into Decentraland through your laptop, putting on your Oculus Rift VR headset to explore Horizon Worlds or using your mobile to augment the world around you via Rift, the visual aspect of the metaverse is critical to your experience. …

Crypto

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👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse
👂 👀 🤏 👃 👄 Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting: Senses in the metaverse
Crypto

4 min read


Feb 20

How do you insure crypto assets?

The fiat global insurance market was noted to be almost $6trillion in 2022 and is expected to rise to over $8trillion by 2026: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1192960/forecast-global-insurance-market/ and according to the ABI, in the UK alone, there were £47.2m in claims processed each day for motor and property insurance in 2020, and £250m…

Crypto

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How do you insure crypto assets?
How do you insure crypto assets?
Crypto

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Feb 17

Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam

Last June I wrote a report titled “The Future of Financial Crime in the Metaverse” https://www.elliptic.co/resources/crime-in-the-metaverse where I outlined the key components of a virtual world and delved into the current financial crimes playing out. …

Crypto

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Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam
Investigating the Azuki Fake Land Drop Scam
Crypto

6 min read

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