Apr 20, 2026

North Korea’s crypto heist playbook is expanding and DeFi keeps getting hit

More than $500 million was siphoned across the Drift and Kelp exploits in just over two weeks. What once looked like isolated brea...

Apr 20, 2026

Aave could face up to $230 million in losses after Kelp DAO bridge exploit trigg...

Aave published a report outlining two possible outcomes: around $123 million in losses if damage is shared across all rsETH, or up...

Apr 20, 2026

Kelp DAO claims LayerZero’s 'default' settings are what actually caused the mass...

The liquid restaking protocol said the compromised verifier was LayerZero's own infrastructure, and the setup it was faulted for r...

Apr 20, 2026

LayerZero blames Kelp's setup for $290 million exploit, attributes it to North K...

LayerZero said the attackers compromised two RPC nodes the company's verifier relied on and DDoS'd the rest, with the attack worki...

Apr 20, 2026

Hack at Vercel sends crypto developers scrambling to lock down API keys

Breach tied to compromised AI tool may have exposed credentials used by app frontends, the user-facing layer that connects web3 wa...

Apr 19, 2026

Aave records $6 billion TVL drop as Kelp hack exposes structural risk at DeFi le...

The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, l...

Apr 19, 2026

Aave sees $6 billion deposit drop as Kelp hack exposes structural risk for DeFi...

The AAVE token fell 16% and deposits fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH as collateral to borrow wrapped ether, l...

Apr 18, 2026

2026's biggest crypto exploit: $292 million gets drained from Kelp DAO with wrap...

An attacker drained 116,500 rsETH, roughly 18% of circulating supply, from Kelp's LayerZero-powered bridge on Saturday, triggering...

Apr 18, 2026

Bitcoin 'plebs eat first' mining pool Parasite finds its second BTC block

Parasite Pool, which pays 1 BTC to the block finder and splits the rest among all participants, mined block 945,601 on Friday, abo...

Apr 18, 2026

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin warns of the dangers of AI being controlled by...

In an interview with CoinDesk, the Ethereum co-founder spoke also about Ethereum’s evolution through MetaMask, stablecoins and tok...