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Crisis Management Becomes a Key Exercise as Crypto Exploits Mount

Nomad Hack Exposes Weakness of Cross-Chain Bridges

Latest Hack Further Exposes Vulnerabilities in Bridge Protocols

Cross-Chain Bridges Prime Targets for Exploits

Yes, we’re back from New York City and back into the grind of a market that has recovered a smidge of its dignity, total cryptocurrency market cap poking its head back above a trillion once again. For how long, well we’ll have to see. And with no prospect of the Fed easing off on rate […]

Escalation of Malicious Attacks Shows No Sign of Abating

The hack made off with CloneX and Azuki works.

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Wormhole, a bridge which facilitates asset transfers across seven different blockchain, got hacked on Feb. 2 to the tune of over $320M as a hacker minted 120,000 worth of a version of wrapped Ethereum on Solana. One day later, the funds are back. 

Exploiters, rug-pullers and other rogues ran wild in 2021 and stole $2.2B in DeFi: Report

Solana, a DeFi darling that vaulted into the fifth most valuable cryptocurrency, has taken the biggest hit of major tokens in the last seven days.

Controversy has erupted in the wake of the BadgerDAO hack as insurer Nexus Mutual is waiting for a postmortem before making payouts.

Aave token holders are voting to patch a vulnerability to DeFi’s biggest protocol by assets locked.

Anubis DAO, a recently launched fork of Olympus DAO, is engulfed in chaos after 13.6K ETH ($60M) was drained from the protocol today.