On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, DODO's V2 Crowdpooling contracts were exploited using counterfeit tokens, with two separate actors draining several liquidity pools before the DODO team …
An attacker minted 59,471,745.571 PAID tokens out of nothing and sold them into the PAID/ETH liquidity pool on Uniswap, extracting value from the liquidity providers on the other s…
Lockdowns pushed more of daily life online, and with it came a renewed appetite for identities and spaces that exist only on a screen. Anonymity behind an avatar offers a kind of f…
Binance Smart Chain recorded its first large-scale exploit on March 4, 2021, when the yield project Meerkat Finance was drained of roughly 13 million BUSD and about 73,000 BNB — a …
On Monday, March 1, 2021, an attacker exploited DeFi aggregator Furucombo , draining roughly $14 million from wallets that had granted the app "infinite approval" over their tokens…
The case for a decentralized digital dollar just got a little stronger. On February 24, 2021, the US Federal Reserve's payment infrastructure, Fedwire, suffered an outage that halt…
Decentralization used to be treated as a non-negotiable principle in crypto. Whether that principle is being eroded, or simply redefined by new players, is now an open question. Cr…
Yield farmers are trading their tractors for gallery passes. The same crowd that spent 2020 chasing triple-digit APY on food-themed tokens has rebranded, almost overnight, as conno…
Hindsight is a useful teacher, and on reflection this outlet may have judged Armor too harshly in its previous coverage. Where formal regulation is absent, reputation does much of …
An attacker made off with roughly $37.5 million by exploiting a debt-accounting flaw in Alpha Homora's vaults, using a chain of transactions elaborate enough that much of the commu…
An insurance protocol built to protect DeFi users instead stands accused of misappropriating a policyholder's payout, in a dispute marked by shifting statements, a quietly modified…
On February 9, 2021, two lesser-known decentralized finance projects, BT Finance and Growth DeFi, were drained within hours of each other, adding roughly $2.7 million combined to D…
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