DeFi has spent years hardening its flagship smart contracts. Hackers have noticed — and they’re increasingly attacking everything built around them instead. That trend was on...
Cross-chain infrastructure has always been one of crypto’s biggest security risks. Now one of the sector’s largest recent exploits is triggering a very public divorce between...
What started as a straightforward recovery effort after one of crypto’s biggest recent hacks has now turned into a legal nightmare involving Arbitrum, Kelp DAO, North...
When DeFi breaks, it doesn’t fail quietly—it cascades. Smart contracts unravel, collateral evaporates, and confidence disappears faster than liquidity in a bank run. That’s exactly the...
In a move that signals a maturing—and increasingly interconnected—DeFi landscape, Mantle has proposed lending up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO. The goal is clear: stabilize...
In the shadowy intersection of decentralized finance and adversarial ingenuity, another high-stakes incident has unfolded—this time involving Kelp DAO, a fast-growing player in the liquid restaking...
When nearly $300 million vanishes in a single exploit, the fallout extends far beyond smart contracts and technical audits. It becomes a test of responsibility, trust,...
It didn’t look like a black swan. It looked like inevitability. The $290 million drain of rsETH in early 2026 is now being dissected not as...
Cross-chain infrastructure was supposed to be the backbone of crypto’s multi-chain future. Instead, it continues to be its most fragile point. The latest exploit targeting a...
The numbers alone were enough to rattle the market. A $285 million exploit, executed with surgical precision, traced back not to a sprawling network of attackers—but...