The Coreum Bridge Held 200,000 XRP. A Memo Bug Left It With 493.
A memo-verification bug drained 99.7% of the Coreum bridge, taking 199,916 XRP. The hack was worth about $202,000, not the reason XRP fell under $1.
A memo-verification bug drained 99.7% of the Coreum bridge, taking 199,916 XRP. The hack was worth about $202,000, not the reason XRP fell under $1.
Ostium's post-mortem confirms $23,752,746 gone from its liquidity vault in six minutes. The smart contracts worked exactly as written.
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%.
Three protocol-level upgrades are already in development: account abstraction paired with anti-censorship lists, a new nonce system that breaks transaction linking, and a privacy toolkit that hides what your wallet is even looking at. Most are targeting the Hegotá hard fork in the second half of 2026.
A researcher says over 40 DeFi platforms have employed DPRK state-linked developers. Their seven years of blockchain experience is, as she notes, not a lie. The Drift Protocol exploit was not a code bug. It was a six-month intelligence operation conducted by a North Korean state-affiliated group that attended conferences, deposited real capital, and waited.
SDNY US Attorney Jay Clayton has pushed back against Roman Storm's attempt to use a 2026 Supreme Court copyright ruling as a defense against the two charges a jury deadlocked on last year. The case is a live contradiction: the same DOJ that issued a memo ending 'regulation by prosecution' on crypto platforms is now pursuing a retrial that could send a developer to prison for 40 years for writing open-source code.
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.
Tornado Cash is an Ethereum privacy mixer that became the center of a landmark fight over code, sanctions, and free speech. This tag tracks the OFAC sanctions and their partial reversal, the criminal case against developer Roman Storm, its use by hackers including Lazarus, and the broader question of whether writing privacy software is a crime. Coinliva covers the court rulings, the sanctions news, and what the case means for open-source developers.