Rio Vasquez
Solana ecosystem reporter who runs validators, farms airdrops, and reviews every protocol before writing about it. If it launched on Solana in the last three years, he used it first. Thinks the best journalism comes from actually touching the product.
Articles by Rio Vasquez
Coldcard's X Account Got Phished, and Crypto's $494M Problem Just Got Personal
Coldcard, the hardware wallet people buy specifically because they don't trust anything, is investigating how a phishing link ended up on its own X account. The device was never the weak point. Your login is. Here's what that means for every crypto user with a seed phrase and a password.
Solana Just Shipped Bank-Grade DvP Settlement in Seconds, and T+1 Suddenly Looks Embarrassing
The Solana Foundation released an open-source delivery-versus-payment program that clears asset transfers and cash in seconds. I tested the plumbing, and the case against it's weaker than the banks want you to think.
