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BonkDAO’s estimated $20M drain exposes how memecoin treasuries can be raided by a simple vote
The malicious proposal shows how token-weighted votes can become a treasury access path when DAO review controls are …
Cardano’s 9.0.1 Hotfix Shows Why Last-Mile Upgrades Matter Before A Hard Fork
Hard forks are usually discussed in big-picture terms, but the final approach is often decided by smaller technical c…
Dogecoin Core 1.14.8 Lands With Security Fixes The Network Cannot Ignore
Dogecoin does not always get taken seriously when the market is in meme mode, but infrastructure updates are where th…
New SummerFi DeFi exploit shows AI automation now sits above smart contract risk
Blockaid estimated about $6 million drained as Summer.fi paused Lazy Summer vaults and investigated the cause. The po…
Vitalik Buterin proposes ‘Extremely Lean’ Ethereum, shrinking the chain to near-zero state with ZK proofs
Buterin outlined a two-step plan to shift Ethereum's state management to validators and replace per-epoch balance upd…
Ethereum developers embrace Vitalik Buterin's long-term vision but urge quicker execution
The "Lean Ethereum" strawmap, updated earlier this week, has gained support from many of the network's researchers, t…
Cardano Development Activity Pushes Back Against ADA Price Stagnation
Cardano node releases show continued development work even as ADA remains stuck in a tight market range.
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…
Cardano Price Stuck in Consolidation as Devs Push Back on ‘Ghost Chain’ Accusations
Cardano Price Stuck in Consolidation as Devs Push Back on 'Ghost Chain' Accusations — what the latest source materi…
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…
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 …
Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea is still nowhere near ready
The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third par…
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…
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…
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…
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will cut budget 40% in major reset
The reduction comes on the same day the EF confirmed a 20% reduction in headcount and follows the resignation of co-E…
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…
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…