DeFi hack losses in 2026 still trail 2025, Dragonfly says
Incidents are up but median loss per hack keeps falling, signalling attackers are shifting toward smaller or abandoned protocols while larger venues harden against AI-enabled exploits.
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Incidents are up but median loss per hack keeps falling, signalling attackers are shifting toward smaller or abandoned protocols while larger venues harden against AI-enabled exploits.
CryptoRank's monthly tracker now shows DeFi TVL below the $70B line for the first time since 2023, with 121 hacks and $942M in losses accelerating the year-long unwind across every major chain except…
DeFi lending protocols have lost $7.7B to exploits since 2020, yet coverage sits at 0.14% of TVL — users keep chasing yield while the sector's own insurance stack shares the same vulnerabilities as…
The record counts both raw dollars and incident count, and the dollar figure only excludes the February 2025 Bybit event — context that frames the month as the worst stretch for protocol security…
The criticism pits Tether's freeze track record against Circle's silence in a public call to action — and raises the question of whether selling USDC is the lever that moves a $60B stablecoin issuer.
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.
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.