Solana Foundation lends USDT to Aave amid $292M KelpDAO exploit
The KelpDAO rsETH exploit pulled $12B+ from Aave, and a cross-chain rescue — Solana lending USDT, AAVE going multi-chain — is now the recovery's defining bet.
The KelpDAO rsETH exploit pulled $12B+ from Aave, and a cross-chain rescue — Solana lending USDT, AAVE going multi-chain — is now the recovery's defining bet.
No user funds were lost and a patch is already live, but a 13-block reorg on a top-20 PoW chain is the kind of event miners, exchanges, and custody providers will be reading closely for weeks.
The loss is small relative to SUI's $1B+ DeFi TVL, but the incident hits a lending market that had marketed itself as institutional-grade — and 100% reimbursement is now the social contract Scallop…
A zero-day in the MimbleWimble Extension Block let attackers peg out funds and DoS mining pools; the chain reorg reversed the invalid spend while valid transactions were unaffected.
About 4,500 BTC are reportedly inaccessible after private keys vanished with the missing co-founder, withdrawals are halted, and losses could top $100M as Polish authorities open criminal probes.
Pavel Durov's count — 41 attacks in 3.5 months — is the first public estimate tying the wave of France's physical crypto attacks to leaked government tax data.
A 1 BTC bounty was the prize for breaking 15-bit ECC — but the math extrapolates to roughly 500,000 qubits for 256-bit, with an estimated 6.9 million BTC sitting in address types that would need a…
GitHub commit logs show the consensus bug was privately fixed four weeks before the attack; the Foundation's 'zero-day' framing is now in dispute, and the LTC moved during the 32-minute invalid…
Five months after a ~$120M exploit, the Balancer attacker is back on-chain, swapping 1,100 ETH into BTC through THORChain's cross-chain router in under an hour.
Evan Tangeman has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for his involvement in a large-scale cryptocurrency…