Cryptocurrency
Blockchain hashing, wallets and on-chain incidents. Clear-eyed coverage of how crypto works under the hood, the security trade-offs, and the hacks and exploits worth learning from.
Moonwell Hack Drains $8.7M via Price Oracle on Base [2026]
A lending protocol lost $8.7 million on Thursday without a single line of its smart contract code being touched. That is the striking detail security researchers keep repeating…
Crypto Wallet Alerts: Track Any Address in 12 Steps [2026]
Wallet drains are no longer rare, one-off news stories. TRM Labs put total crypto theft at roughly $972 million across 207 incidents in the first half of 2026,…
MEV Bot Steals 74% of a Hacker’s $500K Heist [2026]
A thief stole roughly 500,000 USDC from a wallet on Base on August 7, 2026. Within minutes, a second predator was waiting: an automated MEV (maximal extractable value)…
Reentrancy Testing: Slither + Foundry Catch Bugs in 12 Steps [2026]
A DeFi protocol loses money to a reentrancy bug almost every month in 2026, and the pattern barely changes. GMX V1 lost $42 million in July 2025 to…
Trezor, SafePal Breaches Expose 53,487 Wallet Owners [2026]
Trezor told 13,689 customers on August 13, 2026 that their names, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses had leaked. Not because anyone breached Trezor’s servers. Not because…
Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Setup: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Exchange hacks did not slow down in 2026, they compounded. Coinsbuy lost more than $8 million on August 9. Term Labs lost $8.5 million to a governance exploit…
Term Finance Loses $8.5M as August DeFi Hacks Hit 17 [2026]
A DeFi lending protocol called Term Finance lost roughly $8.5 million in a governance attack on August 24, 2026, after an attacker seized control of its on-chain voting…
Layer 2 Scaling Setup: Cut Gas Fees 99%, 12 Steps [2026]
Ethereum mainnet gas fees can still hit several dollars for a routine swap during busy hours. Layer 2 rollups like Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism now handle the same…
Sandbox Bridge Exploit Mints 14.9B SAND, $49B Face Value [2026]
An attacker minted roughly 14.9 billion unbacked SAND tokens across two wallet addresses this week, exploiting a cross-chain bridge that connects The Sandbox metaverse platform to Base and…
Verify Stablecoin Reserves: 10 Steps, 45 Min [2026]
On August 13, 2026, Tether announced that KPMG U.S. had finished the company’s first full independent audit, an unqualified opinion covering fiscal year 2025. Reserves beat liabilities by…
