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AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close
The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash's n…
Travala debuts agentic AI travel protocol with gasless USDC payments on Base
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment…
Immunefi says DeFi is ‘getting safer’ as exploit losses fall 74% from 2022 peak amid AI-driven security arms race
DeFi exploit losses fell 74% from the 2022 peak to $680 million in 2025, according to Immunefi, amid structural secur…
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 10,422 BTC, worth roughly $739 million as BTC price slides
Mt. Gox moved more than $700 million worth of Bitcoin while the market was already under stress, giving traders a fam…
Here's how one decentralized cloud provider says private citizens can make money from AI
Titan Network says its crowdsourced computing network has signed tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba as clients, sav…
Cosmos-based Gravity Bridge drained of $5.4 million in suspected key compromise, researchers say
The attacker took USDC, ether, tether and PAYG tokens before laundering a portion through ChangeNow and Binance.
Base launches Azul on mainnet, pushing Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 toward full decentralization
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
Have AI agents made the entire $148 billion DeFi sector unsafe?
A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks…
OpenZeppelin founder says he now considers ‘all of DeFi’ unsafe
OpenZeppelin's Manuel Aráoz said he has been privately advising friends and family to exit all DeFi positions.
Coinbase-incubated Base blockchain rolls out MCP gateway to AI interfaces like Claude, ChatGPT
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and inte…
Polymarket suffers live POL drain as team rules out feared contract exploit
Polymarket faced what many users interpreted as a possible hack on May 22 after public alerts described a rapid POL d…
Verus bridge exploiter returns 4,052 ETH, retains $2.8 million bounty: onchain analyst
An attacker transferred 4,052.4 ETH worth $8.5 million back to Verus on Friday after the team proposed a bounty frame…
THORChain exploit turns emergency chain halt into a DeFi trust test
THORChain’s suspected multichain exploit and emergency halt on May 15 has turned into another DeFi security inciden…
‘It’s an unfair game’: CertiK CEO says DeFi attackers using AI to outspend defenders
CertiK says DeFi attackers are increasingly targeting operational security and supply-chain weaknesses instead of sma…
Ripple insider warns XRP holders as fake airdrop scams surge across XRPL
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is seeing a drastic rise in fraud attempts targeting its users as the network draws more instit…
Korean won stablecoin KRWQ expands to Solana following March EDX Markets listing
Korean won-denominated stablecoin KRWQ is expanding to Solana to support Korean won liquidity onchain.
Circle adds $3 billion Wall Street Arc token risking an uncomfortable rivalry with Coinbase
Circle's $222 million ARC token presale has given Wall Street a new way to value the USDC issuer, while raising a har…
OpenAI’s new cybersecurity push has a lesson for crypto: stop waiting for the hack
OpenAI introduced a new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, on May 11, designed to find, validate, and help fix softw…
IRL crypto threats: Physical “wrench attacks” have led to over $100 million in losses since January alone
Crypto investors have lost more than $100 million to physical extortion in the first four months of 2026, according t…
After the $16.5 billion in exploits, DeFi is now being forced toward the controls it once resisted
The rsETH crisis resulted in $200 million in bad debt on Aave's books, despite not a single line of its contracts mis…
Crypto ‘wrench attacks’ on the rise, with victims’ family members increasingly at risk: CertiK
There has been 34 verified incidents globally, a 41% increase from the same period in 2025, CertiK said in a report p…
Attackers drain $1.4M in wrapped bitcoin from DeFi protocol Ekubo in approval-based exploit
Ekubo Protocol lost roughly $1.4 million in WBTC after attackers exploited a flaw in its EVM swap router contracts.
Coinbase doubles down on Centrifuge investment, taps platform as Base’s main tokenization partner
Centrifuge will be the go-to platform for launching tokenized assets on Base, the Ethereum blockchain incubated by Co…
Ripple shares North Korea-linked threat data as crypto attacks shift to social engineering
The recent $280 million Drift incident has demonstrated a shift toward more sophisticated social engineering tactics.
Binance adds protection against physical threats as problems with crypto wrench attacks persist
Blockchain analytics firm CertiK said this February that attacks using physical threats to steal crypto rose 75% in 2…
Coinbase-incubated Base network adopts Succinct’s zero-knowledge tech
Base, launched as an optimistic rollup, is hybridizing its tech stack with Succinct's SP1 zero-knowledge virtual mach…
North Korea blames ‘reptile media’ over reports of crypto theft
North Korea rejected U.S. cybercrime claims as 'absurd slander,' blaming media as crypto theft attributed to the coun…
The Funding: How DeFi hacks could hit crypto funds
DeFi’s latest hack wave is likely to add pressure on liquid and yield-focused crypto funds already navigating a tou…
Someone just drained long-forgotten dormant Ethereum wallets, and the cause may trace back years
Hundreds of Ethereum wallets that had sat untouched for years were drained into the same tagged address, turning old …
Crypto hacks hit record high in April as exploits kept piling up
With the end of April in sight, another exploit involving dormant Ethereum mainnet addresses appears to have occurred.