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Audited DeFi protocols lost $885M to attacks that occurred completely outside their audit scopes
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1191+ words) The ack3-affiliated preprint found a 72.1% outside-scope share after excluding two H1 2026 outliers, while August incidents add operational context. In decentralized finance, “audited” is often presented as a verdict on an entire project. In practice, an audit usually covers named code, components…...
Critical Bitcoin Lightning bugs exposed nodes to fund theft and restart failure
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (357+ words) LDK v0.2.6 addresses small splice-related fund losses and a payment-handling flaw that could prevent saved channel state from loading. Lightning Development Kit, a toolkit for building Bitcoin Lightning applications, released v0.2.6 on Sept. 9 with fixes for bugs that could divert small amounts…...
Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (517+ words) A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric. ARK Invest and Glassnode have put a new number on blockchain capture risk: the smallest group of block-production entities needed to cross a protocol-relevant control threshold....
Tokens created out of thin air may explain how $320 million in Bitcoin left the Liquid sidechain
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (529+ words) Technical accounts describe how unbacked L-BTC allegedly passed security checks, while a reported split between nodes raises questions about federation software deployment. Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache,…...
Privacy coin flaw risks endless token creation, leaving node operators with a deadline in hours to fix it
1+ week, 3+ day ago (460+ words) The Firo hard fork was 153 blocks away from activation early Friday, leaving wallet users and network operators only hours to install software that repairs an August vulnerability in the privacy coin’s Spark transaction system. The chain reached block 1,370,847 at 1:45:47 a.m....
Scan reveals 96,000 fake-address outputs clogging Bitcoin’s unspent database
1+ week, 3+ day ago (550+ words) Bitquery’s scan shows why cheap OP_RETURN repetition and fake-address text impose radically different costs on Bitcoin nodes. Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words…...
Cronos validators erase transaction history to contain massive $75 million lending protocol exploit
1+ week, 6+ day ago (675+ words) Cronos restored the chain to a pre-exploit state and resumed block production, while some connected services remain in recovery and a postmortem is still pending. Cronos has restarted and restored block production after validators restored the chain to its state…...
Old Lightning nodes may be exposed to a full-channel wipeout after LND fix lands later than disclosed
2+ week, 5+ day ago (565+ words) LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced maximum-loss scenario. Operators using standard releases below 0.21.0 should treat their nodes as lacking the official fix unless…...
Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1075+ words) Solana's legacy PoH and TowerBFT paths were out of scope, and no paper-specific implementation review is public. At USENIX Security on Aug. 12, researchers presented a Solana Proof-of-History clock attack they had disclosed privately to Solana developers in December 2025. Anza's 50,000 SOL…...
Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack
3+ week, 6+ day ago (833+ words) An Aug. 19 meeting will examine proposals designed to conceal pending trades until their place in a block is fixed. Ethereum developers are weighing a new defense against predatory trading bots that exploit pending transactions before they reach the blockchain. The…...