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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.
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.
Vitalik’s smaller Ethereum Foundation tests ETH holders’ demand for execution
With at least nine senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) members having left in 2026 and years of community frustration ove…
XRPL’s May 27 upgrade shows how validators and markets decide a blockchain split
XRPL's known amendments page lists fixCleanup3_1__3 for activation on May 27, and by design the event is a maintenanc…
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…
US labor federation warns CLARITY Act could push crypto closer to workers’ retirement money
Labor argues the bill could give digital assets enough regulatory cover to move closer to retirement accounts before …
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…
Chainlink Continues Leading The Oracle Economy With SVR Expansion — What To Know
Chainlink continues to strengthen its dominance within the oracle economy as adoption of its Smart Value Recapture (S…
CLARITY Act is not law yet, but the markup is a major retail adoption trust catalyst
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act by a 15-9 vote, and the National Cryptocur…
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…
How CLARITY Act survived a chaotic Senate markup after Warren, Banks and Democrats tried to slow it down
Inside a packed Senate hearing room on May 14, the air was heavy with the tension of a high-stakes jurisdictional bra…
‘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…
Kelp DAO, Aave to resume rsETH operations as recovery from $292 million exploit progresses
Kelp was exploited on April 18 for $292 million from attackers suspected to be part of North Korea's Lazarus Group.
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…
Chainlink emerges as the unlikely $3B winner of KelpDAO exploit as DeFi projects dump LayerZero
Crypto projects with more than $3 billion in total value locked have migrated their cross-chain infrastructure to Cha…
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…
Arbitrum’s $71 million in ETH cleared for Aave transfer as North Korea terrorism creditors retain legal claim
The order shields anyone who votes on the transfer from being held in violation of the freeze, though the ultimate fa…
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…
Ethereum loses 10% of its DeFi market share as rival chains close in
Ethereum's share of the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi compressed from 63.5% at the start of 2025 to around 54% as …
Retail Capitulation Hits AAVE, But Smart Money Starts Positioning: Here The Post-Crisis Market Structure
Aave entered April 2026 as DeFi’s most trusted lending protocol. It is ending the month navigating the most damagin…
Aave liquidates Kelp DAO attacker’s remaining rsETH positions
Aave required a governance process to manipulate its rsETH oracle price to generate a deficit in the attacker’s fra…
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 cuts 14% of staff as Armstrong ties cost reset to AI and market volatility
Coinbase will cut about 700 employees, or 14% of its workforce, under a May 5 restructuring plan that the company say…
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.
Aave fights court-ordered $73 million ETH freeze, argues ‘a thief does not own what he steals’
Aave LLC filed an emergency motion in federal court seeking to lift an order that froze ether tied to last month's Ke…
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…
How one trader used morse code to trick Grok into sending them billions of crypto tokens from its verified wallet
Tagging @grok in an X post plus a few dots and dashes was all that was needed last night for a bad actor to pickpocke…