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DeFi

Nostra Halts Its Starknet Money Market After a $3.5M Oracle Exploit

One account borrowed against an inflated NSTR price. The loan is several times the token's entire circulating value, and the accounts split on the date.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

S&P Global Agrees to Buy OpenZeppelin, the Code Behind $37 Trillion

Terms were not disclosed and neither side gave a closing date. The security firm keeps its name, its team and its open-source libraries under S&P Global Ratings.

· 18 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

A Bot Beat the Attacker to $7.8M Drained From a Safe Wallet

An attacker steered a Safe wallet's own module into a rigged Uniswap v4 pool. A bot called yoink front-ran the transaction and took the rsETH.

· 16 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Aave Plan Would Put DAO Money Before Stakers in Three V4 Markets

TokenLogic's proposal covers Core WETH, USDC and USDT with DAO offsets of 33 ETH and 15,000 each. Umbrella stakers absorb whatever is left over.

· 15 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Symbiosis Recovers 15 BTC After a Bridge Minted 46 Billion syBTC

An attacker minted 46.1 billion syBTC and realised about $336,000 from it. Symbiosis says it has 15 BTC back; its liquidity providers have no terms yet.

· 14 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

XRP Ledger Activates fixCleanup3_3_0 Ahead of Its Lending Protocol

A bundle of protocol fixes went live on XRPL mainnet with 31 of 35 validators behind it. The lending protocol it prepares for is still switched off.

· 13 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Stolen Keys Cost More Than Code Bugs in DeFi's 2026 Loss Tally

CertiK puts operational compromise at about 76% of first-half losses. Three trackers give three totals for the same six months.

· 6 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

PeckShield Counts 50 August Hacks, CertiK Puts Losses $79M Higher

August logged more incidents than any month of 2026 while the money taken fell by half. Two security firms published totals about $79 million apart.

· 2 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Robinhood Chain Books $1.92M in a Day, Lifting Arbitrum's ARB

A tenth of the chain's net revenue is routed to Arbitrum under its expansion program. Accounts of ARB's move and of the September token release do not agree.

· 2 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Arkham Traces $30M of Bitcoin Sales to Lazarus Wallets on Hyperliquid

Wallets identified in 2024 sold more than $30 million of bitcoin on the venue over three weeks, converted the proceeds and moved them to three exchanges.

· 1 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Cronos Restarts Its Chain With the Tectonic Exploit Rolled Back

Validators restored the chain state to a point before the attack and resumed from block 90,896,189. The restart timestamps in circulation do not agree.

· 1 Sept 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Cronos Halts Its Chain After an Estimated $75M Tectonic Exploit

Validators stopped block production on Sunday after an attacker inflated TONIC about 100-fold and borrowed against it. The loss estimates do not agree.

· 31 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read