Libra - Rugged
A $4.5B meme coin implodes, leaving impeachment calls and class action lawsuits in its wake. Crime season continues as Argentina's President Milei turns LIBRA into a ponzinomics class for the history books.
zkLend - Rekt
A rounding error exploit bled $9.57M from zkLend vaults on Starknet. After Railgun showed them the door, the attacker ignored their Valentine's Day bounty deadline, letting the stolen funds sit idle. Same operator behind EraLend's 2023 hack? On-chain evidence suggests yes.
State of Deception
In the latest episode of nations going crypto, Central African Republic's president launched a meme coin that touched almost $900M - almost a 3rd of CAR's GDP. AI and hosting can't agree if it's real and copycats are racing to launch their own.
Ionic Money - Rekt
Fake LBTC, real losses. Social engineering artists convinced Ionic Money on Mode Network to accept counterfeit collateral, walked away with $6.9M, and left sister protocols holding toxic bags. Previously exploited twice as Midas - third time rekt's the charm.
Pwnedbase
Coinbase users lost $65M in 2 months while support tickets gathered dust. Scammers ran a tighter ship than their security team. ZachXBT's investigation reveals the real damage. $300M lost annually while Coinbase chases banking powers.
Blood on the Blockchain
The co-founder of Ledger - David Balland’s severed finger, a $10 million ransom, and a 48-hour manhunt. This isn’t a Netflix thriller - it’s a brutal reminder that the lines between wealth and survival can be dangerous in crypto.
Poetic Justice
The ultimate scammer toolkit turned against its masters. $10M+ vanished as malware-infused updates drained the wallets of those who made rugging retail an art form. Dogwiftools proved there's always a bigger predator.
THORChain's Ice Age
When you build leveraged experiments on top of working products, reality strikes. THORChain now faces $200M in frozen funds, a native token in free fall, and 90 days to choose between controlled demolition or total collapse.
Phemex - Rekt
When your hot wallets become dozens of points of failure, $73.54M makes an expensive lesson in access control. From Ethereum to Solana, CEX Phemex just demonstrated how to turn multi-chain support into a masterclass in multi-chain mayhem.
Trump Casino
Inauguration weekend turned crypto into a political battleground as President-elect Trump's $TRUMP and First Lady's $MELANIA meme tokens ignited, nuked, then reignited the markets. Some traders got so rekt they started missing Gary Gensler.
The Idols NFT - Rekt
Some reflections are better left unseen. The Idols NFT found out the hard way - never trust a mirror. A flaw in their reward system let an attacker drain 97 stETH ($324k) by setting sender and receiver to the same address.
Moby Trade - Rekt
When your private keys become the white whale, who's really hunting whom? Moby Trade loses roughly $1 million to a compromised key, while white hats rescue $1.47M from the depths. Some lessons of the sea only need to be learned once.