The WEMIX Attacker Minted $5.2M. Only $724K Could Leave the Chain.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
ZachXBT flagged six attacker wallets funded through Tornado Cash. A minting flaw in KelpDAO's rsETH token left Aave V3 holding bad debt, sending the AAVE token down 10-13%.
A pre-signed transaction feature designed for convenience became the entry point for the largest DeFi hack of 2026. Elliptic has flagged North Korean state actors. Circle faces fresh scrutiny.
Three DeFi protocols paid out $96 million to holders in a single month. Hyperliquid led the group, and unlike most of its peers, every dollar of revenue went straight back to token holders.
StablR's EURR and USDR lost their pegs on Sunday after an attacker compromised a single private key in a 1-of-3 multisig, minted 8.35 million unbacked USDR and 4.5 million EURR, and dumped them for 1,115 ETH. The stablecoin issuer holds a Malta EMI license and operates under MiCA. Regulation did not stop a key management failure.
Pi Network is down 94% from its all-time high with daily unlocks creating persistent sell pressure. A three-phase protocol upgrade targeting smart contracts by May could shift the narrative, but Binance listing remains absent.
The $150 million recovery plan will fund user reimbursements as Drift relaunches with USDt as its settlement asset. Circle faced heavy criticism for not freezing $232 million in USDC that the North Korea-linked attacker moved through its own bridge.
Investors allege Circle let $230 million in stolen USDC cross from Solana to Ethereum without intervention. The lawsuit lands as Tether steps in with a $127.5 million recovery package.
Rug pulls cost crypto investors an estimated $6 billion in 2025 alone. The number of incidents dropped, but the damage per scam got worse. Over 62% of meme coins launched last year were flagged as potential rugs within 30 days. This guide explains how rug pulls work, what the warning signs look like, and which free tools can help you verify before you buy.
NEAR's largest DeFi protocol revises hack damage upward after post-mortem reveals margin trading flaw. About $11.2 million has been returned or frozen so far.
Saturday's 13-block reorg looked like a 51% attack. The Litecoin team says it was a zero-day in MWEB. Either way, three hours of chain history just got rewritten.
Hyperliquid generates close to $1 billion in annualized revenue. Almost all of it buys back and burns the token. Hayes set a $150 target. The price is $43. Something has to give.
A Google quantum paper, a new perp DEX launch, and a yield product on Solana drove the week's biggest moves — all of it playing out against a broader market sitting deep in Extreme Fear.
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) now handle a growing share of crypto trading, from spot AMMs like Uniswap to perp venues like Hyperliquid and Aster. This tag tracks DEX volume and market share against centralized exchanges, liquidity and fee dynamics, the perp-DEX competition reshaping on-chain derivatives, the regulatory questions facing protocol developers and front-end operators, and the exploits that test how decentralization holds up under stress. Coinliva covers the on-chain data, the protocol launches, and the shift of trading activity toward permissionless venues.