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Unable to recover from roughly $50 million hack, Radiant Capital is winding down
Radiant Capital said it hasn't been able to recover a meaningful amount of funds or raise new capital since the 2024 …
Failed Ethereum ICO from 2016 just unlocked 1,003 ETH by exploiting itself
A whitehat and HongCoin's original multisig used a preserved overflow bug to reopen refunds trapped since 2016. The p…
‘Gnosis will cover all user losses’ amid exploit related to Gnosis Pay, co-founder Koppelmann says
Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann said all user losses will be covered as containment efforts continue following an…
Dev helps rescue $2 million locked in 2016 ICO contract for nine years with whitehat exploit
The developer told The Block that two of 48 eligible investors have already claimed 96.5 ETH that was unfrozen, worth…
Cross-Chain Protocol Gravity Bridge Suffers $5.4 Million Attack — Details
Gravity Bridge, a Cosmos-native cross-chain protocol, was the target of a compromised-key attack, which led to the th…
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.
Bitcoin ATMs were crypto’s street-corner bank. Now regulators are shutting the door
Bitcoin ATMs were (and still are) the most tangible and literal implementation of crypto. They turned the process of …
Sui blockchain suffers more downtime following Thursday’s six-hour outage
Sui was offline for 5 hours and 55 minutes on Thursday due to a bug in the blockchain's latest "1.72 release."
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…
Sui blockchain experiences second ‘stall’ in five months
Sui said the blockchain is experiencing a "network stall," as block explorers show the protocol has not produced a bl…
Bitcoin’s drop toward $72,000 shows how US-Iran tensions are again hitting ETFs, leverage, and flows
Bitcoin fell toward the $72,000 level after a new wave of reported US military strikes on Iran pushed oil higher and …
Security researchers flag ongoing Stake DAO exploit after attacker mints trillions of vsdCRV
The attacker minted 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum and is actively swapping tokens for ether, the researchers said.
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.
Charles Hoskinson goes all-in on Cardano and Midnight after $250 million hospital shutdown
Charles Hoskinson, Cardano's founder, is turning his public focus back to the blockchain network, and Midnight, one o…
‘We don’t know who deployed this’: Squid distances itself from $3.2 million third-party module exploit
Squid said its core protocol was unaffected after a third-party module named SquidRouterModule was exploited for roug…
Researchers flag TrapDoor malware campaign targeting crypto developer environments including Aptos, Sui and Solana
The TrapDoor malware campaign used malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to target crypto developer envi…
StablR’s EURR and USDR depeg after attacker mints $13.5 million in unbacked tokens through multisig exploit
EURR fell to $0.85 and USDR fell as low as $0.40 after an attacker dumped roughly $10.4 million in face value on dece…
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…
ZachXBT flags suspected exploit involving Polymarket’s UMA adapter contract on Polygon
Onchain sleuth ZachXBT flagged a potential exploit of Polymarket's UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon, with $520K reportedly …
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…
Wife of Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget targeted in kidnapping attempt at home in France: report
The wife of Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget was targeted in a kidnapping attempt as France logs over 41 crypto ki…
Zcash Foundation ends Q1 with $36.69M in liquid assets and operating expenses of $817K
Zcash Foundation Q1 operating expenses came in at about $817,000, with team compensation as the largest category.
Bitcoin Meets Geopolitics: Iran Launches Crypto Insurance For Ships In The Strait Of Hormuz
Nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply moves through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran now wants a cut of it — not by forc…
BTCFi protocol Echo exploited, targeting eBTC market on Monad: onchain analysts
BTCFi protocol Echo was exploited, with the attacker minting 1,000 eBTC on Monad and using it as collateral to borrow…
Ohio man sentenced to 9 years for running $10 million crypto Ponzi scheme
The CFTC filed an enforcement action against Rathnakishore Giri in August 2022 for running the fraudulent investment …
Ongoing exploit drains $11.6 million from Verus-Ethereum bridge: Blockaid
Peckshield flagged that the Verus-Ethereum bridge has been drained for 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147,000 USDC.
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…
Bitcoin ETF flows reverse as US funds shed $1B amid inflation fears
US-listed Bitcoin ETF flows have suffered their most severe weekly capital flight since the end of January, with inv…
THORChain pauses trading as security researchers flag suspected $10M multi-chain exploit
THORChain halted trading after security researchers flagged a suspected exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Smart…
‘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…