The Linea Unlock Was 960 Million Tokens and Public Holders Got None
Linea unlocked 960.13 million tokens on September 10 for about 2.75 million dollars, and every coin routed to the consortium rather than public holders.
Linea unlocked 960.13 million tokens on September 10 for about 2.75 million dollars, and every coin routed to the consortium rather than public holders.
Smart contract exploits were 60% of 2026 crypto hacks but just 17% of the losses. Keys, custody and signing systems took 76% of the stolen value.
Ondo stopped minting USDY on Aptos and Noble on September 8. The tokens stay redeemable, but Noble is the chain that feeds USDY to the Cosmos networks.
Impermanent loss is the gap between adding two tokens to a pool and just holding them. What it is, the size at each price move, and why it rarely reverses.
Price-manipulation exploits hit a record 32 in DeFi lending in 2026. The Tectonic case shows why the attack is cheap, repeatable and tough to audit away.
Linea sold no tokens to VCs or its own team, yet nearly 90% of the supply sits with Consensys and its consortium, and a September 10 unlock now feeds it.
Liquid Network lost 3,996 BTC, near 320 million dollars, to an Elements rangeproof bug on September 6. No key was stolen, and 197 BTC now back the peg.
A crypto oracle is how a blockchain reads a price it cannot see itself. Learn what oracles do, why attackers target them, and who runs the feeds today.
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates September 28. Only 0.39 percent of stake ran the required client on September 1, and the window is tight.
An unsafe integer downcast let an attacker drain about $1.7M from a dormant Notional Finance escrow contract, and the stolen funds moved to Tornado Cash.
Token buybacks explained from zero: where the fee revenue comes from, what happens to the coins after, and why an announced buyback can still do little.
An attacker drained about $75 million from Tectonic on Cronos by inflating a token that barely traded. Price manipulation is now one in eight crypto hacks.
Silicon Network, an Ethereum L2 tied to Korean exchange Korbit, is winding down by December 31 with roughly 9.75 million dollars still stranded onchain.
The biggest crypto hacks of 2026 skipped the code and stole the keys. Losses fell below 2025, yet one state-linked crew still took nearly half the total.
Funding rates are the recurring fee that keeps perpetual futures tied to spot. Learn how the 8-hour payment works, who pays whom, what the rate signals.
Injective lost $4.9M on August 31 to a market-ID collision in binary-options settlement, then framed the near four-hour block halt as a routine upgrade.