An infinite-mint vulnerability in Cover Protocol's shield-mining contract let attackers create COVER tokens out of nothing, inflating the total supply by roughly 48 quadrillion per…
Owning a hardware wallet and never exposing your private keys is not, on its own, a guarantee of safety — not if the machine you're signing from has already been compromised. That …
Ledger's standing with its own customer base took a fresh hit this week. Records stolen from the company months earlier, previously accessible only to buyers who could pay for them…
Warp Finance became the newest entry in a lengthening list of DeFi protocols undone by price-oracle manipulation. A wallet funded with just one ETH routed through Tornado Cash depl…
Fabricated news isn't a new problem, but the tools producing it have changed shape. Technology designed purely to deceive doesn't leave much room for a moral use case, and deepfake…
State-level actors are not immune to the same security failures that plague crypto protocols — they just get different labels for it. When a nation-state is the victim, the inciden…
Regulatory pressure on stablecoins escalated on two fronts in early December 2020, with G7 finance officials and US legislators both signaling intent to bring privately issued digi…
"Now don't try to kid me man cub, I made a deal with you." Throughout history, humans have tried to put distance between themselves and their primate ancestors. Roughly four billio…
Compounder.finance has rug pulled its users for more than $12,000,000. The project's website and Twitter account were both taken down immediately after the exploit, leaving investi…
Some players are dealt a stronger hand than others, and those who know how to use it can rewrite the rules of the game entirely. In an industry that claims decentralisation as a co…
Just as SushiSwap appeared to be regaining its footing, an overnight exploit tested its new leadership. Pseudonymous developer 0xMaki took over lead development of SushiSwap after …
On November 26, 2020, a wave of liquidations swept through Compound Finance after the price feed the protocol relied on - an oracle operated by Coinbase - reported a sharp and appa…
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