R&D/CTO @Inca_Digital. Digital Asset/Financial Intelligence, neuroscience, pharmacology, genetics, complex systems, data engineering, travel
Joined January 2019
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I have worked on a number of @DARPA programs in my time at @inca_digital - hear more about our journey!
youtu.be/o8MwJKSIp9c?is=Bk7I…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
A pig-butchering kingpin owns half of Habanos S.A., and nobody noticed.
Our new report maps the shell game that hid it a d takes a deep look at Cuba's off-the-books crypto economy.
Read it first at nothingescapesinca.com. View article
Nicholas Gans retweeted
COLDCARD Mk3 Security Advisory
If you generated a seed on a Mk3 after firmware 4.0.1, your funds may be at risk.
Mk4, Q and Mk5 are not affected based on our early analysis.
Read the advisory and migrate carefully:
blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-m…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
In May 2025, a client asked us to vet a prospective investor: Goliath Ventures, a crypto firm promising monthly returns from liquidity pools.
Last month its founder pleaded guilty to a $400M+ Ponzi scheme.
We flagged the risk in 2025 using only open-source intelligence.
Report in comments.
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Data alone doesn't create intelligence. Relationships between data do.
Hear from Inca's Head of R&D, @NicholasGans, on how Inca's engineering team makes it happen:
youtube.com/watch?v=HO1YhjJs…
The Fortune Crypto 100 list was just published! Check out how @FortuneMagazine & @inca_digital applied data to categorize and rank companies and projects across the digital asset space!
The #FortuneCrypto100 list is here.💰
Top companies include:
➡️ @coinbase
➡️ @FTI_US
➡️ @RobinhoodApp
➡️ @HyperliquidX
➡️ @a16z
➡️ @tether
➡️ @chainalysis
➡️ @BlackRock
➡️ @MARA
🔗 See who made our new list with @inca_digital: fortune.com/ranking/crypto/2…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Cambodia didn't just host the scam economy. It built the legal architecture to sustain it.
Issue #1 of Nothing Escapes Inca, our new monthly brief: Cambodia naturalized 4,000+ foreign nationals, 56% from the PRC, now seated on 7,284 company boards. In 2024 the records went offline.
Read Issue #1 here: nothingescapesinca.beehiiv.c…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
On social media, scammers are among us.
Scams & syndicates evolve every year.
Solutions won’t come from tracing these on any one side.
Clarity comes between the lines. Conviction requires seeing all of it.
Changing that, @AustinCampbell on @Inca_Digital’s @DARPA EEI contract
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Naturalized directors don't just govern companies - they govern alongside Cambodia's political elite. Hun To, cousin of PM Hun Manet, appears on multiple boards with directors linked in sanctions actions to Cambodia's scam industry.
What emerges is institutional proximity between alleged criminal actors and the inner circle of Cambodian state power, formalized through corporate structures.
Congrats to The Wyoming Stable Token Commission @wyostable for Launching the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT)!
Today, the State of Wyoming launched FRNT (Frontier Stable Token), the first fully reserved, fiat-backed stable token issued by a U.S. public entity.
Inca Digital is proud to continue working with the Wyoming Stable Token Commission (@wyostable) as FRNT enters the market. We support FRNT with advanced blockchain intelligence, cross-market insights, and real-time risk analytics, ensuring transparency, security, and trust as public-sector digital assets evolve.
This launch marks an important milestone, and we look forward to supporting what comes next.
Read the full announcement here:
xitter.cf/wyostable/status/20089…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
The seizure of more than $300M in assets tied to Cambodia’s scam-finance elite marked a turning point in Thai–Cambodian relations, escalating border tensions and strikes on three crypto-linked scam compounds.
In an @ABC article today, Inca Digital Senior Advisor Jacob Sims warned that thousands of trafficking victims may have been inside the compounds at the time.
Read more: abc.net.au/news/2025-12-12/t…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Proud that Inca Digital contributed a small part to this ICIJ investigation. Huge credit to the many analysts who helped ensure the accuracy of the findings and bring this story to light.
Today @ICIJorg and 37 other newsrooms around the world are releasing one of the largest ever investigations into dirty money across the cryptocurrency industry.
This is just the beginning of our work.
icij.org/investigations/coin…
Nicholas Gans retweeted
NEW: 🇰🇵DPRK has begun hiding malware on blockchain.
Result, decentralized, immutable malware.
Nearly impossible to remove.
Research by @Mandiant
Its not just price breaking out for $ZEC: Number of ZCash Mentions on social media/news outlets and google searches for ZCash are skyrocketing.
Data from @inca_digital and @GoogleTrends
ALT Inca Digital NLP Data for "ZCash" OR "ZEC" Mentions
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Just as a note for everyone in crypto, since you're not used to this:
Insider trading in stocks is illegal.
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Huge props to the great team at @wyostable! Excited to be supporting Frontier Stable Token risk Intelligence @inca_digital!
Today, Commission Chairman & @GovernorGordon announced the mainnet launch of the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT).
This historic move marks Wyoming as the first public entity in the United States to issue a blockchain-based stable token. FRNT is designed to provide secure...
Nicholas Gans retweeted
Looks like Cetus/Sui issue was an integer math overflow issue.
- Rust has always supported overflow checks on run-time/compiler level rust-exercises.com/100-exerc…
- Solidity added overflow checks in 0.8 (should have been 0.1 but we had to fight tens of millions of lost dollars w/gas golf wankers screaming against this)
This is a danger of homebrew ecosystems and rolling out your own languages and compilers. It is a black eye for Move, which was advertised as a safe smart contract programming language and obviously did not caught a basic issue like this.
Cetus AMM on the @SuiNetwork has suffered a catastrophic ~$200M hack🚨
Root cause: an arithmetic overflow in the liquidity calculation that allowed an attacker to withdraw astronomical amounts of tokens from a small liquidity position.
How did they pull this off? 🧵
