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Smart-contract exploits, bridge hacks, phishing campaigns, and exchange breaches cost the crypto industry billions every year. Our security coverage reports each major incident as it surfaces — root cause where known, on-chain forensic trails, attacker addresses, fund flows through mixers and bridges, recovery efforts, and post-mortems published by the affected protocols and audit firms. We also follow the white-hat ecosystem, bug bounty programs at Immunefi and Code4rena, ongoing audits, and the security-tooling vendors (formal verification, runtime monitoring) working to reduce the next breach.

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Solana Network Nearly Lost Finality After Routing Bug Took 29% of Validators Offline

A routing misconfiguration at a single hosting provider took approximately 29% of Solana's staked validators offline Tue...

Aug 12, 2026, 04:02 PM
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Harmony ONE Token Crashes After Attacker Mints 4 Billion Tokens

An attacker minted approximately 4 billion ONE tokens, equivalent to roughly one-quarter of Harmony's total supply, caus...

Aug 12, 2026, 12:02 PM
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XRP Bridge Drained of $200K After Attacker Exploited Deposit Validation

An attacker drained approximately $200,000 worth of XRP from a cross-chain bridge by creating unbacked XRP on another bl...

Aug 12, 2026, 07:04 AM
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BTCPay Offers $190,000 Bounty After Lightning Wallet Exploit

BTCPay announced a bounty of up to 3 BTC (approximately $190,000) for recovery of funds stolen in a recent exploit targe...

Aug 11, 2026, 12:05 PM
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BTCPay Server Community Offers 10% Bounty for Stolen Bitcoin Recovery

BTCPay Server announced a 10% bounty capped at 3 BTC for recovery of funds from a Lightning wallet exploit, and committe...

Aug 11, 2026, 07:07 AM
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Bitcoin Policy Institute Seeks AI Lab Access for Security Researchers

The Bitcoin Policy Institute and over 40 digital-asset organizations are calling on leading AI laboratories to grant qua...

Aug 11, 2026, 02:03 AM
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North Korean Hackers Deploy Local AI to Automate Crypto Firm Attacks

The North Korea-linked hacking group Kimsuky has built three local AI environments to automate cyberattacks targeting cr...

Aug 11, 2026, 12:04 AM
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Coinsbuy Suffers $7.9M Drain Across Ethereum and TRON

Coinsbuy-linked wallets lost over $7.9 million in combined Ethereum and TRON holdings in a reported security breach. Att...

Aug 10, 2026, 10:04 AM
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Iranian Gambling Network Moved $4B Through Unlicensed Exchange Before Detection

A $4 billion Iranian gambling operation moved cryptocurrency through an unlicensed exchange for years before law enforce...

Aug 10, 2026, 10:03 AM
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Polymarket Fixes Price-Manipulation Vulnerability That Cost Platform $8.2M

Researchers identified 821 accounts that extracted $8.2 million from Polymarket by moving Bitcoin prices in the final se...

Aug 10, 2026, 10:02 AM
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Bybit Sues North Korea Over $1.5B Hack, Wins Asset Freeze

Bybit filed a civil lawsuit in US federal court against North Korea, its intelligence agency, and the Lazarus Group over...

Aug 10, 2026, 07:03 AM
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Pre-revenue AI Crypto Startup Loses 97% of Cash in Six Months on Bad Trades

A pre-revenue AI crypto startup depleted its cash reserves from $12 million to $577,328 in six months following poor cry...

Aug 10, 2026, 01:02 AM
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