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THORChain Reopens Trading After Month Long Halt
THORChain has resumed trading after more than a month offline, marking the end of one of the more serious operational pauses in recent cross chain DeFi.
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Aztec Connect Drained of $2.1M via ZK Proof Integration Flaw
Aztec Connect was already deprecated. The contracts were immutable. The funds were still there. That combination turned an old privacy bridge into a sitting target, and when the proof logic failed to bind what was verified to what was executed, $2.1M walked straight through the gap.
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DeFi’s Q2 2026 Exploit Wave: The Attack Surface Has Moved
Q2 2026 exposed a darker shift in DeFi security. The biggest losses were not just contract bugs, but failures in bridges, key management, messaging layers and hidden control points. The attack surface has moved beyond the code, into everything the code is forced to trust.
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Humanity Protocol’s $36M Lesson: A Multisig Is Only as Strong as Its Key Management
Humanity Protocol has lost administrative control of its token bridges on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks after an attacker acquired control of three of the six private keys governing its Gnosis Safe multisignature wallet.
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Kelp DAO Exploit: $220M Laundered, Highlighting Limits of Centralised Intervention
The actor responsible for the 18 April exploit of Kelp DAO has successfully laundered approximately $220 million of the $293 million in stolen assets. The funds, originally drained as 116,500 restaked ETH (rsETH), were laundered over six weeks using a multi-stage, cross-chain process.
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Gravity Bridge Halted After $5.4M Contract Key Exploit
The Gravity Bridge, a protocol for asset transfers between Ethereum and Cosmos ecosystem chains, has been halted by its validators. The action followed a security incident where an attacker drained approximately $5.4 million in digital assets from the bridge’s primary Ethereum smart contract. The st
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Sui Network Halts Twice in Two Days Following Flawed Software Update
Sui's back to back outages weren't just technical failures. They were a stress test of the network's decentralization.
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Verus Network Halts Layer 1 Chain After $11.6M Bridge Exploit
On 17 May 2026, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Verus-Ethereum bridge, extracting digital assets valued at approximately $11.6 million. The stolen assets, which included various tokens native to the Verus ecosystem, were immediately swapped for Ether (ETH) on decentralized exchanges. Th
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The Bet Under The Bet
Read pMINT as a leveraged social wrapper on pDAI conviction, not as free yield. Then decide whether that is a feature or a warning.
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US Senate Amendments Target DeFi Developer Liability and Protocol Autonomy
A slate of proposed amendments to the CLARITY Act would make writing open-source financial software a regulated, and potentially criminal, activity in the United States. Filed by a group of Democratic senators including Elizabeth Warren, the changes aim to dismantle the legal distinction between bui
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Telegram assumes direct control of TON validator operations
Telegram has announced it will replace the TON Foundation as the primary entity governing The Open Network, positioning the messaging platform as the network’s largest validator. This transition follows a series of technical updates, including the implementation of the Catchain 2.0 consensus mechani
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Consensus Isn’t Agreement. It’s Pressure.
There is a moment most people miss when they first look at how blockchains actually work. They see validators, they see rewards, they see the surface level idea of decentralisation, and they assume consensus is something that naturally emerges from honest participation. It doesn’t. It is engineered,