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Crypto hacks hit a record count but the biggest threat isn’t smart contracts
The industry's security problem is changing shape: more hacks, smaller median smart-contract losses, and a handful of…
How tokenized stocks fail as collateral even when the stock price does not move
DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to becom…
Humanity Protocol repositions toward enterprise AI after $36 million hack, founder says
Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok says the project is pivoting to enterprise AI after a $36 million exploit, wit…
‘We are bullish on Morpho’: Standard Chartered sees token at $60 by 2030, outperforming bitcoin and ether
Standard Chartered forecasts Morpho at $60 by 2030, citing vault growth, TradFi adoption and a projected 37x DeFi exp…
Crypto hack theft falls 7% in June to $76 million as Humanity Protocol tops list: PeckShield
Crypto hacks hit $75.9M across 40 incidents in June, down 7.1% from May, led by the $31M Humanity Protocol exploit, P…
DeFi hacks are turning high yields into a hidden liquidity tax
DeFiLlama data shows $780.3 million in Q2 known losses as bridges, keys and protocol logic turn security into a live …
FCA finalizes UK crypto rules as firms face 2027 access deadline
The FCA's new regime will force exchanges, custodians and stablecoin firms to decide whether UK access is worth a ful…
Vitalik Buterin calls obfuscation cryptography’s ‘final boss,’ but says current approaches remain wildly impractical
Vitalik Buterin said obfuscation is cryptography’s “final boss,” citing impractical iO schemes with “literall…
El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve faces an accounting reckoning under new IMF pressure
Its 7,696 BTC reserve now has to remain legible through a drawdown, wallet scrutiny, and program conditions. The post…
Charles Hoskinson Explores Zero-Knowledge Wallet Recovery to Remove Seed Phrase Risks
Charles Hoskinson Explores Zero-Knowledge Wallet Recovery to Remove Seed Phrase Risks: a fresh look at Cardano ZK wal…
Polymarket hit by $2.9M theft, users to be refunded
Polymarket said it contained the compromise and removed the affected dependency after attackers injected a malicious …
Does Botanix’s failure prove Bitcoiners don’t care about DeFi?
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change…
Bitcoin’s bear market struggle is killing crypto jobs but fueling a $10 billion Wall Street-backed M&A boom
Bitcoin’s prolonged decline is forcing cryptocurrency companies to cut staff, automate more work, and abandon the e…
DeFi TVL drops 39% in 2026 amid market downturn and record hack activity
DeFi TVL fell 39% in 2026 as a broader market downturn and fallout from major exploits, including the Kelp DAO hack, …
SecondFi traces Cardano wallet exploit to address-level issue
Cardano wallet SecondFi traced the incident to an address-level issue and secured 129 million ADA after attackers dra…
Ethereum’s much-hated staking 'tax' may already be obsolete
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate over whether to tax staking rewards or to purs…
Crypto users told to pull funds after Ethereum L2 bridge failure exposes rollup exit risk
The incident turned bridge security from an abstract trust model into an immediate withdrawal test for users. The pos…
THORChain resumes trading more than a month after $10M exploit
THORChain resumed all network activity after implementing multiple security upgrades and a vault migration to fix the…
Ethereum Foundation sacks 20% of workforce amid strategic restructuring
The Ethereum Foundation fired 54 employees and unveiled a new organizational structure as Vitalik Buterin said the gr…
Bitmine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin back Ethereum R&D nonprofit
Sharplink says the new nonprofit, Ethlabs, “exists to ensure the network is ready to absorb” the demand that inst…
Andy Burnham emerges as UK Prime Minister favorite, sparking crypto industry hopes for policy reset
Keir Starmer’s decision to step down as UK prime minister has opened a race for Downing Street just as Britain ente…
Q2 2026 emerges as most-hacked quarter on record with 83 incidents
Crypto hackers stole $755 million across 83 cybersecurity incidents, as cross–chain bridges remained the most costl…
CryptoBandits malware lets criminals use your USB drive to access crypto wallets – Microsoft warns
Microsoft’s latest crypto malware research points to crypto wallets, one of several places a transaction can fail, …
Taiko urges users to withdraw as bridge exploit drains $1.7M
Taiko’s bridge and ERC20 Vault on Ethereum suffered a compromise in its chain state verification mechanism, allowin…
Secret Network bridge exploited for $4.7M with ‘infinite mint’ bug
An exploit of the Secret Network went undiscovered for a week as the hacker moved the loot into Ethereum and then to …
FCC robocall rule could make phone accounts a richer target for crypto attackers
The FCC’s proposed robocall rule, published May 26 under CG Docket Nos. 17-59 and 02-278, asks whether originating …
Ethereum’s Jaredfromsubway MEV bot drained after approving its own $7.5M theft
The Jaredfromsubway MEV bot, linked to roughly 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks, lost more than $7.5 million in an al…
Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M
Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025.
Secret Network’s Axelar bridge drained for $4.67 million in infinite-mint exploit that went unnoticed for seven days
Secret Network says about $770,000 of the stolen funds still sits in the attacker's Axelar wallet, and that Axelar de…
TD Cowen says CME has the upper hand in lawsuit against CFTC over crypto perpetual futures
"We expect CME will seek a preliminary injunction to block perps as the case proceeds," said TD Cowen's Jaret Seiberg.