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Raydium has pledged to fully reimburse losses after an exploit drained approximately $1.3 million from five legacy liquidity pools built on Solana. According to blockchain security firm PeckShield and on-chain investigator Specter, the attack targeted retired automated market maker infrastructure…
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Humanity Protocol has identified a malware-infected developer machine as the source of the security breach that led to the theft and unauthorized minting of roughly 447 million H tokens across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain. According to Humanity Protocol’s incident…
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Humanity Protocol has revealed that a compromised employee laptop enabled attackers to obtain control of bridge administration systems across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, resulting in the theft and minting of more than $36 million worth of H tokens. According…
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Humanity Protocol has disclosed that more than $36 million worth of H tokens have been stolen after attackers compromised multiple administrative keys and seized control of bridge infrastructure across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain. According to Humanity Protocol’s June 9…
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Humanity Protocol’s $31 million exploit has been linked to a genuine private key compromise rather than an insider theft scheme, according to a new assessment from on-chain investigator ZachXBT. According to ZachXBT, further analysis of the stolen funds has led…
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Aave founder Stani Kulechov has defended the decentralized lending protocol after an $8.45 billion withdrawal wave followed a major DeFi exploit earlier this year. Speaking at the Proof of Talk conference in Paris last week, Kulechov argued that Aave remained…
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Radiant Capital has announced plans to wind down operations after failing to recover from a $50 million exploit that devastated the lending protocol and left it without sufficient funding to continue. According to a statement published Monday by Radiant’s decentralized…
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CertiK has reported that crypto losses from hacks and exploits have fallen to $68.3 million in May, nearly 90% lower than the roughly $650 million stolen in April. According to blockchain security firm CertiK, May became the third month of…
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DxSale has suffered a $7.3 million exploit after an attacker allegedly used a hidden backdoor in a liquidity locker contract to withdraw BNB locked by more than 1,400 liquidity providers on the BNB Chain. According to blockchain security firm PeckShield,…
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Stake DAO faces an ongoing exploit after an attacker minted 5.4T vsdCRV on Arbitrum and began swapping funds for ETH, researchers said.
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Crypto security concerns have intensified after OpenZeppelin co-founder Manuel Aráoz said he has advised friends and family to exit all decentralized finance positions, including exposure to major lending protocols. In a post published Tuesday on X, Aráoz said he no…
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Kelp DAO has completed the operational phase of its rsETH recovery plan more than five weeks after the Ethereum liquid staking protocol lost $293 million in a hack that investigators linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. According to a Monday…
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Blockaid says a SquidRouterModule exploit drained 86 Gnosis Safes for about $3M, with stolen tokens swapped into DAI on Ethereum and Base.
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Syndicate Labs has announced plans to shut down its operations after saying the market for Ethereum rollups has deteriorated to a point where the business is no longer viable. In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Syndicate Labs said…
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MAPO, the native token of Map Protocol, has collapsed by 96% after attackers exploited the Butter Network cross-chain bridge to mint an enormous amount of unauthorized tokens. According to blockchain security firm Blockaid, the attacker created a quadrillion MAPO tokens…
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Crypto liquidity is scattered across exchanges and pairs, creating a structural “liquidity tax” of slippage, spread drag, and inconsistent execution that hits traders, tokens, and venues. Crypto trading activity is spread across hundreds of exchanges, liquidity venues, market makers, and…