THORChain Halts Trading After $10M Multi-Chain Exploit
A four-chain drain hitting BTC, ETH, BNB and Base layers puts THORChain back on incident-watch — the fourth or fifth security event on a protocol that has been here before.
A four-chain drain hitting BTC, ETH, BNB and Base layers puts THORChain back on incident-watch — the fourth or fifth security event on a protocol that has been here before.
The pause and the missing post-mortem are the real story: cross-chain bridges have absorbed more than $2.8B in thefts since 2021, and Thorchain has not yet named the attack vector.
On-chain investigator @zachxbt flagged the multi-chain drain minutes after the funds started moving; the $10M mark is a live count and likely to climb as the attacker's wallets are tracked.
On-chain data from HypurrScan shows trader Evaded (@ICanPlug) opened a 1x leveraged long position in $CBRS worth…
The case hinges on a stablecoin-specific legal hook: Tether already froze OFAC-designated Tron wallets, and the plaintiffs want the court to order it to reissue that USDT to terrorism-judgment…
A newly created Bitcoin wallet (bc1qgm…) withdrew 676.72 BTC — worth approximately $55.12 million at the time — from…
Binance Research frames the share as small, but the absolute stock of laundered funds keeps growing — and the bottleneck is now mixer capacity, not just tracing.
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.