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LayerZero has issued a public apology admitting its own infrastructure misconfiguration enabled the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, reversing weeks of statements that blamed the victim protocol. The confession, published Friday...
Kelp DAO has announced it will migrate its restaking token rsETH to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol following the April 18 exploit that drained 116,500 rsETH tokens worth approximately $292 million from its LayerZero-powered bridge....
April 2026 is now the most damaging month in crypto history, with CertiK reporting $630 million stolen across roughly 30 separate exploits confirmed by DeFiLlama. Two state-sponsored attacks accounted for the overwhelming majority of...
Litecoin suffered a 13-block chain reorganization on April 25, 2026, after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its MimbleWimble Extension Blocks privacy layer, erasing roughly 32 minutes of network history. The Litecoin Foundation called it...
DeFi United, the coordinated recovery fund established in the wake of the Kelp DAO $292M bridge exploit, has secured $160 million of the roughly $200 million needed to cover bad debt left on Aave’s...
On-chain analysts have confirmed that the Kelp DAO exploiter laundered approximately $80 million in stolen ETH through THORChain over a 24-hour window, with swap volume on the cross-chain protocol surging to $394 million —...
Arbitrum’s Security Council voted 9-to-3 on Monday evening to freeze 30,766 ETH worth approximately $71 million, tracing those funds directly to last weekend’s Kelp DAO $292 million bridge exploit. The assets have been moved...
Drift Protocol’s $280 million exploit has produced two defining consequences in 48 hours: a class action lawsuit against Circle Internet Financial, and a $147.5 million recovery package anchored by Tether. The two developments together...
Drift Protocol has linked its $280 million exploit, executed on April 1, to a six-month social engineering campaign attributed with “medium-high confidence” to North Korean state-linked threat actors. The Solana-based perpetuals exchange published preliminary...
Drift Protocol, a perpetuals DEX built on Solana, has been exploited for an estimated $270 million in what appears to be the largest DeFi hack of 2026. The Drift team confirmed the attack on...
