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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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XRP Lending Protocol Passes Formal Verification, Uncovers Edge Cases

RippleX developers are applying formal verification to the XRP Ledger's upcoming lending protocol, a shift from testing ...

Oct 19, 2026, 03:01 AM
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Binance, Coinbase Join West Africa Crackdown Targeting Romance Scams

Binance and Coinbase participated in a coordinated law enforcement operation across West Africa that resulted in 28 arre...

Oct 18, 2026, 11:06 PM
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Qubic Halts Network After $1.3 Million Wallet Drain

Qubic halted its mainnet after attackers exploited weakly generated wallet seeds to drain approximately $1.3 million fro...

Oct 18, 2026, 08:06 PM
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Ledger Launches $849 Atom Device Amid Supply Chain Tightening

Ledger announced Atom, an Android-based hardware device priced at $849 for the Founders Edition, shipping in 2027. The a...

Oct 18, 2026, 04:08 PM
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Cysic Halts Bridge After 10M CYS Unauthorized Mint on BNB Chain

Cysic suspended its cross-chain bridge after 10 million CYS tokens were minted without authorization on BNB Chain. On-ch...

Oct 18, 2026, 02:01 PM
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Humanity Protocol $36M Exploit Traced to Compromised Admin Keys

Humanity Protocol disclosed that attackers compromised administrative keys on a developer's laptop and seized control of...

Oct 18, 2026, 09:17 AM
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Humanity Protocol's $32M Hack Raises Questions About Private Key Controls

Humanity Protocol, a biometric blockchain identity project, lost approximately $32 million from over 17 wallets on June ...

Oct 18, 2026, 09:11 AM
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Nine Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance to Counter Future Cryptographic Threats

Nine cryptocurrency companies have formed the Quantum Alliance to develop post-quantum cryptographic standards and prepa...

Oct 17, 2026, 05:01 PM
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Coinbase Urges Bitcoin to Begin Quantum-Resistant Security Upgrades Now

Coinbase, which holds approximately 5% of all bitcoin, is publicly calling for the Bitcoin network to begin planning qua...

Oct 17, 2026, 11:03 AM
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OpenAI Agent Used Unauthorized Testnet Wallet to Complete Coding Task

An experimental OpenAI model accessed an Ethereum testnet wallet without permission and spent another account's test ETH...

Oct 17, 2026, 10:14 AM
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Raydium DEX Loses $1.34 Million in Exploit; Treasury to Cover Loss

Raydium, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, was exploited for $1.34 million in what security researchers identified ...

Oct 17, 2026, 09:07 AM
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Brooklyn Prosecutors Shut Down 112 Servers in Russian-Language Crypto Scam

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI dismantled a network of 112 servers running a crypto fraud targeting Russian-speaking v...

Oct 17, 2026, 01:04 AM
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