PancakeSwap's veCAKE Purge Sparks Mystery-Wallet Governance Scandal
A governance dispute is unfolding at PancakeSwap after leadership proposed scrapping veCAKE, the vote-escrow mechanism that had given long-term token holders outsized influence ove…
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Liberation Day and the Tariff Formula That Broke the Market's Nerve
On what the administration branded "Liberation Day" , President Trump appeared in the Rose Garden holding up a cardboard placard of tariff figures while equity markets sold off in …
How a Fake Security Researcher Persona Traced Back to North Korea's Lazarus Group
For more than a year, an account operating under the name Nick Franklin ( 0xNickLFranklin ) built a reputation in the crypto security community as a sharp, fast-moving exploit anal…
Vanity Address Exploit Drains SIR Trading's Entire $355K Via Transient Storage Collision
SIR Trading (Synthetics Implemented Right), a leverage protocol on Ethereum, lost its entire $355,000 in TVL on March 30, 2025, to an attacker who exploited a collision in the prot…
A $6M Short, a 429% Pump, and the Two-Minute Vote That Exposed Hyperliquid's Kill Switch
A trader engineered a self-inflicted liquidation against Hyperliquid's own risk engine on March 27, 2025, putting the exchange in a bind: absorb a loss that had reached roughly $12…
GMX-Linked Cauldron Bug Lets Attacker Walk Off With 6,260 ETH
Abracadabra Money suffered its second major exploit in just over a year on March 26, 2025, when attackers drained 6,260 ETH — worth about $13 million — from the protocol's GMX-link…
Compromised Admin Keys Drain $8.4 Million from Real-World Asset Platform Zoth
Real-world asset protocol Zoth lost $8.4 million on March 21 after attackers gained control of privileged contract permissions and used them to upgrade a vault contract into one th…
From LIBRA to WOLF: Inside Hayden Davis's Repeating Meme Coin Playbook
Hayden Davis, the operator behind the LIBRA and MELANIA token collapses, appears undeterred by the legal exposure his prior schemes have generated. Rather than retreating after a r…
The Industrialization of the Rug Pull: Bots, KOLs, and the New Face of Crypto Grift
Predatory schemes in crypto have not disappeared — they've been refined. What started with crude "ape tax" style token traps has evolved into something far more systematic, powered…
How a Compromised Laptop and One YAML Function Enabled Crypto's Largest Heist
The theft of $1.4 billion from Bybit's Safe multisig wallet, the largest crypto heist on record, did not require a zero-day exploit or any exotic technical breakthrough. Investigat…
Dormant Yul Bug Lets Attacker Drain $5M From 1inch Fusion Resolvers
A calldata-corruption flaw buried in 1inch's retired Fusion v1 resolver contracts allowed an attacker to extract roughly $5 million from several market makers (resolvers) using not…
Xeggex Goes Dark: A Timeline of the "Hack", the Frozen Wallets, and Echoes of Cryptsy
Xeggex, a little-known exchange that had built a niche hosting small-cap altcoins, went offline abruptly in early February 2025, and on-chain evidence suggests some user funds may …
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