A trader weaponized JELLY against Hyperliquid, forcing their hand - lose $12 million or hit the emergency brakes. A small set of validators vote in minutes, while rival exchanges circled like sharks. Decentralization vanishes when profits become losses.
$13M vanished from Abracadabra’s cauldrons after hackers exploited a liquidation loophole. The phantom collateral bug let attackers borrow against already-liquidated positions while the team desperately offers a 20% bounty to ghosts that had already disappeared.
Admin keys stolen, $8.4M drained in minutes through a malicious contract upgrade. Zoth suffers two hacks in three weeks - first for logic, now for keys. Auditing code is easy. Auditing the humans behind it? That’s where protocols bleed out.
Shameless Hayden Davis doesn't stop at presidents. While Argentina reels from his LIBRA rug, he launched WOLF - copying The Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belfort's brand with none of his finesse. Blockchain traces his cash outs while lawyers circle. Will his final rug be one he never cashes?
The casino's now algorithmic. Memes and machines converge into a system where insiders win and retail gets drained. In a game that turns revolutionaries into bag holders. You didn't miss the exit - you are the exit liquidity.
One hacker transformed 1inch resolver contracts into a $5 million ATM through an integer underflow exploit - all with a negative 512 value. Attacker pocketed $450K as a "bounty" for exposing two years of an undetected vulnerability.
North Korean hackers stole $1.4B from Bybit’s signers by exploiting a simple vulnerability in Safe’s system. A single yaml.load execution bypassed high-end security, turning a supposedly impenetrable system into one of the industry’s biggest disasters.
Suspicious transfers from Xeggex hours before their CEO's alleged 'hack' have the community drawing comparisons to past exchange collapses. Now, promissory tokens replace real assets, while funds seem to flow out the back door. Meanwhile, users are left stranded in crypto's latest ghost town.
Democracy died in a Discord channel at midnight. MakerDAO's emergency protocol changes passed while critics found themselves banned. Some saw defense against a hostile takeover, others a power grab. Are governance tokens just tickets to dinner theater?
The perfect DeFi hack. No flash loans, no zero-days. Just a rogue dev who built a backdoor, waited 114 days, then drained $49.5M from Infini with admin privileges. Same old story, new-age incompetence. When will protocols learn that admin keys aren't toys?
$1.43B heist on ByBit claims the throne on our Rekt Leaderboard! Lazarus pulled off the perfect digital sleight-of-hand, making multisig signers see legitimate transactions while signing away the keys to the kingdom. Now ByBit's offering $140M to catch the hackers.
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.