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WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty has announced a bounty program to help the exchange recover or freeze funds stolen in the exchange’s recent hack.

Decentralized lending protocol UwU Lend has unveiled a $5 million bounty to “identify and locate” the exploiter. Developers of UwU Lend are promising to pay up to $5 million “to the first person to identify and locate” a hacker, who…

LayerZero’s ongoing self-reporting effort to combat Sybil attacks has revealed more than 800,000 sybil addresses. Next, it kicks off the 'bounty hunting' stage.

All stolen Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) from the NFT Trader platform have been recovered following a $267,000 bounty payment. On Dec. 16, a security breach on the peer-to-peer platform NFT…

Decentralized social media app Stars Arena has recovered nearly all crypto stolen in an Oct. 7 exploit, aside from a 10% bounty given to the attacker. On Oct. 11, Stars Arena announced via X that about 90% of the exploited…

GMX, a decentralized futures exchange, awarded the Collider team $1 million for finding a bug in its debt tracking system

CoinEx moved to open talk with the hackers who stole $54 million from the crypto exchange, offering a reward if the stolen assets are returned. Crypto exchange CoinEx told the attackers behind a Sept. 12 hack to reach out and…

Steadefi grapples with a significant security breach, risking $334k in assets as the exploited protocol now seeks negotiation with attacker for recovery.

Oliver Hörr, Director of Operations at smart bounty marketplace Hats Finance, shared valuable insights at the ETHBarcelona conference on launching projects without the risk of being hacked, proposing innovative solutions to code auditing, and encouraging ethical hacking. In his speech,…

Horizen has launched its Ethereum Open Network (EON), an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible smart contracting sidechain. It has also floated a $75,000 bug bounty program, in collaboration with Immunefi, to incentivize white hat hackers to fish out vulnerabilities on…

The hacker that stole $1 million worth of crypto from the Sentiment decentralized finance protocol has returned 90% of the funds. Sentiment has confirmed receipt of the funds via Twitter. Barely 48 hours after suffering a malicious reentrancy attack that…

DeFi lending platform Sentiment has responded to a reentrancy attack that resulted in the loss of $1 million worth of crypto by offering a $95,000 bounty to the hacker.

According to recent reports, the Allbridge hacker has reportedly returned user funds lost to the event. This comes just after Euler Finance's hacker also returned funds stolen in another hack.

Euler attack exploiter recently returned $31m, the final amount of recoverable funds. The protocol has recovered 90% of funds lost in the recent attack.  Attacks in the cryptocurrency industry have been quite prevalent in recent weeks. However, after suffering a…

Multi-chain token bridge Allbridge struck a conciliatory tone with the people behind the $573,000 hack on the platform. They asked them to return the funds in exchange for a bounty. The announcement was the latest step Allbridge has taken in…

Beanstalk Farms, a permissionless fiat stablecoin protocol, has announced that it has increased the return bounty to 40% after deploying Hats Finance’s ethical return contract. Beanstalk Farm suffered a hack on Apr. 18 last year and lost about $180 million…