Fears of AI-Driven DeFi Hack Epidemic Overstated For Now — But Not For Long
A wave of high profile crypto hacks in April that many suspected had been orchestrated using sophisticated AI tools to...
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Balance Coin (BLC) Crashes 99% After 42DAO Suffers Exploit
Security researchers point to missing validation checks as the key factor that allowed liquidations to occur almost instantly. Balance...
Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol on Base
Lending protocol Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight on Base, adding fixed-rate, fixed-term loans to its onchain credit network alongside the...
Hyperliquid sets 500,000 HYPE stake for permissionless prediction market deployers
Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4....
a16z Reveals What TradFi Really Wants From Blockchain
Institutional adoption may be a big opportunity, but a16z said that it is not simply an extension of DeFi....
Robinhood Chain Memecoin Launchpad Vlad.fun Halts Over Integrity Issue
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1inch co-founder says he was fired, announces new venture
Anton Bukov said that he no longer takes an active role at 1inch and was “fired” in 2025 after pushing...
ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim
ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized...
Ostium Pauses Trading After Apparent Oracle Exploit Targets OLP Vault
Decentralized trading protocol Ostium paused trading Wednesday after blockchain security firms Blockaid and CertiK reported an apparent exploit of its...
Humanity Protocol to Prioritize Operational Security following $36M Hack
Humanity Protocol will refocus its cybersecurity efforts on operational security following a June $36 million exploit that was traced back...
Coinbase Ventures Emerges as Leading Crypto VC in H1 2026
Coinbase Ventures, the corporate venture capital (VC) arm of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, led the ranks of crypto-focused VC's with 30...
Strike Launches Volatility-Proof Bitcoin-Backed Loans
Bitcoin financial services platform Strike has launched a “volatility-proof” Bitcoin-backed loan that eliminates margin calls and forced liquidations amid the...
Oracle Exploit Drains $9M From Bonzo Lend on Hedera
Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend lost about $9 million after an attacker manipulated the price of SAUCE used as collateral,...
DeFi Holding up Unusually Well in Down Market: Bitwise
Decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens have held up unusually well against Bitcoin over the past month, suggesting the market may be...
Crypto Protocols Must Reaudit Old Smart Contracts, Experts Warn
Blockchain security experts are urging crypto protocols to reaudit their smart contracts as AI tooling is making it easier for...
Important Ripple (XRP) Deadline Concerning Many Users
The team said that funding gaps made the project unsustainable despite the early support it received during launch. Strobe...
Ripple CTO Emeritus Unveils Plan to Tackle XRPL DEX Front-Running
The proposal aims to give XRPL users guaranteed execution priority if they pay a reservation fee before a ledger...
Summer Finance Hit by Sophisticated Flash Loan Liquidity Manipulation
Summer Finance lost around $6 million in a flash loan exploit. Summer Finance has become the latest decentralized finance...
Can AI drain DeFi? Separating Claude Mythos hype from reality
Claude Mythos and DeFi: Real threat or overblown fear?When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos-class models as its most advanced AI system...
SOL Tops $83 As Solana Network Activity Surges
Key takeaways:Solana’s tokenized assets and memecoin revival drove SOL to a 30-day high at $83.Bullish leveraged appetite cooled sharply, suggesting...
OKX launches AI Marketplace for Autonomous Agent Economy
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has rolled out the beta launch of its marketplace for artificial intelligence (AI) agents.The OKX AI platform...
Aave V3 Goes Live on Monad With $15M Incentive Plan
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has deployed its V3 lending protocol on Monad, expanding the layer-1 blockchain’s lending ecosystem with...
