The state of the beat.
Every card on this board is computed from the article corpus at build time — publication tempo, beat activity, running arcs, and the standing watchlist. It updates itself with every report we publish.
Beat Status
Tempo over the last 30 days against the 30 before it. Arrows read rising / steady / falling.
Drones Shut 3 Yandex Data Centers in 4 Days. The Cloud Behind Your Exchange Has a Street Address Too
Netanyahu Asked for a Blockchain Plan Against Sanctions. 3 States Tried It, and the Chokepoint Was Never the Chain
A Bug Minted 2 Million Unbacked AUSD on Initia. The Ethereum Bridge Verified the Burn, Not the Backing
The EU Named USDC Its First 'Significant' Stablecoin. The Label Doubles the Reserve Share That Must Sit in Banks
Tether Says It Freezes 4 Weeks Before OFAC Does. The Senate's 34 Hezbollah Wallets Sat Open for 9 Months
A Rogue Electrum Server Replaced a Payment With a Zero-Fee Fake. The Fee Bump Signed the Attacker's Copy
Activity Matrix
Live reports per beat per month, last 6 months to October 2026. Brighter cells ran hotter.
| BEAT | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5GW | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Geopolitics | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 26 |
| Threats | 6 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 37 |
| Intel | · | 3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 28 |
| Surveillance | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| OpSec | 1 | 3 | · | 3 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| TEMPO | 17 | 21 | 24 | 28 | 23 | 22 | 135 |
Running Arcs
The multi-part investigations. An arc goes dormant after 21 quiet days.
Standing Watchlist
What our recent reporting says to watch next — the forward-looking layer of the archive. Items decay: only reporting from the last 30 days qualifies.
Whether the Electrum team publishes a count of malicious servers, or a blocklist, is the first thing to watch; the advisory names none.
From: A Rogue Electrum Server Replaced a Payment With a Zero-Fee Fake. The Fee Bump Signed the Attacker's Copy →Tuesday, October 27, is the first checkpoint: the election decides whether the person who asked for the plan is in a position to receive it.
From: Netanyahu Asked for a Blockchain Plan Against Sanctions. 3 States Tried It, and the Chokepoint Was Never the Chain →Initia's post-mortem is the first checkpoint: whether the bug sits in Initia's own Move virtual machine, as Zon's preliminary account has it, or in code shared with other Move chains.
From: A Bug Minted 2 Million Unbacked AUSD on Initia. The Ethereum Bridge Verified the Burn, Not the Backing →Railway's root-cause report is the first checkpoint: how the intruder reached the decrypting systems, how many accounts were read, and whether the affected-customer emails name wallet keys among the variables.
From: Railway's Secret Store Was Read and 200 Addresses Were Swept. API Keys Rotate. Private Keys Can Only Move →Whether the lnd candidates become v0.21.5-beta and v0.20.6-beta, and whether the Go bump is their only change, is the first checkpoint.
From: A Certificate Authority's Private Key Was 4. Your Lightning Node's Trust List Is Compiled Into the Binary →SlowMist says a full technical report will follow once the recovery plan is settled; whether it confirms the header path or names the attacker's actual method decides how many of the 1,404 seeds were sampled rather than…
From: Qubic Lost 1,404 Wallets to Math.random. SlowMist Rebuilt a Private Key From 6 Header Values →Friday, October 23 is the first date: on October 8 Blumenthal asked Cantor Fitzgerald, which custodies Tether's Treasury-bill reserves and holds a stake in the company, for records on its Tether relationship and…
From: Tether Says It Freezes 4 Weeks Before OFAC Does. The Senate's 34 Hezbollah Wallets Sat Open for 9 Months →Whether Finland files a formal extradition request, and how a Turkish court rules on it, will decide whether the Finnish allegations are ever tested.
From: Turkish Police Seized 6 Cold Wallets From Richard Heart. The Jurisdiction That Matters Is the One Holding the Hardware →COMPUTED AT BUILD TIME FROM THE ARTICLE CORPUS. NO OUTSIDE FETCHES, NO TRACKING — THIS PAGE IS A DETERMINISTIC FUNCTION OF THE ARCHIVE AND TODAY'S DATE, AND REBUILDS ITSELF WITH EVERY PUBLISHED REPORT.