Automated buying and selling bots extracted about $1.32 million by exploiting a worth hole in Ant Blockchain (ANB). The dislocation appeared throughout two Meteora liquidity swimming pools, in line with on-chain trackers and Solana market watchers. The largest single commerce transformed about $0.227 in USD Coin (USDC) into $696,000, spending solely 2.32 SOL in precedence…
Wasabi Protocol suffered an admin-key compromise that drained over $5 million from its perpetuals vaults and LongPool throughout Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast, on-chain safety companies Blockaid and PeckShield reported. The attacker gained ADMIN_ROLE by the protocol’s deployer pockets, then upgraded the vaults to a malicious implementation that siphoned person balances. About $4.55 million had…
Scallop, a cash market on Sui Network, misplaced about 150,000 SUI on Sunday after an attacker drained a deprecated rewards contract tied to the protocol’s sSUI spool. The crew froze the affected contract inside minutes and pledged full reimbursement from its treasury. Core operations resumed in beneath two hours. Another Sui Exploit Hits Peripheral Code,…
Tron founder Justin Sun filed a 52-page fraud lawsuit towards World Liberty Financial (WLFI) this week. Eric Trump rapidly fired again. The grievance lists seven causes of motion, together with fraud within the inducement, conversion, and unjust enrichment. Sun invested $45 million within the Trump family-backed venture. Trump and Witkoff Reject Sun’s Claims Eric Trump…
Volo Protocol, a liquid staking platform on Sui crypto, was exploited on April 22, 2026, for roughly $3.5 million throughout its WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults, the protocol’s first materials safety breach in its 18-month historical past. The staff has pledged to soak up the losses in full, and roughly $28 million in TVL throughout…
Sui-based liquid staking platform Volo Protocol stated on Wednesday that an attacker drained roughly $3.5 million from three of its vaults, the most recent DeFi safety breach in a month already shaken by nine-figure exploits. Volo froze each vault after detecting the assault and notified the Sui Foundation. The stolen property included Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC),…
The Kelp DAO exploit on April 18, 2026, during which attackers minted 116,500 unbacked rsETH by poisoning a single LayerZero verifier node, has catalyzed greater than $600 million in sector-wide DeFi losses over latest weeks, with cumulative injury throughout protocols approaching $1 billion. The downstream impact is now seen on-chain: complete worth locked throughout DeFi…
LayerZero has attributed the Kelp DAO exploit to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, figuring out a single-point-of-failure within the protocol’s verifier setup because the technical root trigger that made the assault potential. The breach drained an estimated $292 million from Kelp DAO’s rsETH pool on April 18, marking the biggest DeFi hack of 2026 up to…
A wave of protocol-level safety responses adopted the $292 million KelpDAO rsETH exploit on April 19, with BitGo, Polygon, and Katana transferring swiftly to isolate potential contagion. The assault drained 116,500 rsETH from Kelp DAO’s LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge by means of a cast message that bypassed its Decentralized Verifier Network (DVN) configuration. Protocols Move to…
Polymarket will take its trade offline for roughly one hour on April 22. The downtime deploys V2, a full overhaul of its buying and selling contracts, order e book, and collateral system. The improve replaces V1 completely. Every API integration and SDK shopper should migrate earlier than the cutover or cease working. What Changes With…