CertiK CEO: DeFi Attackers Now Outspend Defenders
Ronghui Gu says the cost gap is structural: attackers lean on AI to scan operational and supply-chain gaps faster than white-hat budgets can keep up, while the Arbitrum freeze fallout threatens…
Ronghui Gu says the cost gap is structural: attackers lean on AI to scan operational and supply-chain gaps faster than white-hat budgets can keep up, while the Arbitrum freeze fallout threatens…
On-chain data from HypurrScan shows loracle.hl (@loraclexyz) is currently short 29,772 XYZ:CBRS worth $11.22 million at…
The three-way public-private unit says intercepted illicit proceeds jumped 43.9% in 2025 — a figure that doubles as a counterweight to the industry-wide 'crypto = crime' narrative.
The threat isn't a new wallet-drainer contract — it's impersonators using AI-generated video and audio of real Ripple executives to convince users to hand over seeds.
Silent Payments advances on Bitcoin's base layer without adding trust, but shielded balances and auditable disclosure live elsewhere — strkBTC ships that gap, wrapped in a federation, bridge, and…
The drops expose the legal thin ice under synthetic private-company exposure — tokenized PreStocks have no claim on actual equity, so the price is whatever market participants believe the wrappers…
The restart comes a week after a Lazarus-linked April 18 attack drained the restaking market's largest LRT — a clean recovery test for the DeFi lending stack that absorbed the impact.
The bad debt is gone, but the road back is brutal: FLUID buybacks paused, incentives cut or removed, and an oracle + pricing-system overhaul on the slate before the next product wave.
A long-term holder capitulated at a roughly 12% loss after buying near the October peak — another data point in the wave of late-cycle distribution from large wallets.
The FBI's San Francisco office unsealed charges against three men accused of posing as delivery workers, kidnapping crypto holders, and forcing transfers at gunpoint — a rare federal case tying…
A federal grand jury hit the alleged crew with robbery and weapons charges spanning multiple California cities — the third indictment this year tying a coordinated crew to seven-figure crypto heists.
Ten newly created wallets pulled 100 million LAB tokens, valued at approximately $480 million, from Bitget in a 12-hour…
The chart of a meme-coin loss compressed into one hour — half a million dollars of FOMO flow in, one-fifth of it back out, and the catalyst tweet gone.
The dev had already cashed out roughly $611K in $SOL before the post was scrubbed; 39.52% of supply was concentrated in ten wallets funded by 20 $SOL of seed capital.
The headline figure spans cumulative protection since 2023, with $1.98B saved in Q1 2026 alone from 22.9M flagged attempts — but Binance Research's own data flags AI as 2x better at exploitation than…
The headline figure is big, but the more interesting beat is the infrastructure behind it: 100+ AI models trained on deepfake, phishing and social-engineering patterns, now scaling across 5.4M users.
The May 12 cutover ends Ronin's standalone-sidechain era and hands network security over to Ethereum mainnet — the structural fix for the bridge vulnerability Lazarus exploited in 2022.
CertiK counts 34 verified physical-coercion incidents since January — a 41% YoY jump — with Europe absorbing 82% of cases and France emerging as the continent's clearest concentration of…
A wallet untouched since 2013 just shifted $40.62M worth of $BTC — the move lands while long-term holder supply is already at multi-year lows, raising the question of whether more vintage coins are…
Three protocols with $2.3B combined just walked — the first measurable TVL migration since LayerZero admitted a Lazarus-linked RPC exploit and a 1/1 DVN misconfiguration.