New UK Crypto Rules for Sanctions
UK Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation updated its sanctions guidance on 30 August to explicitly include “cryptoassets” among those that must be frozen...
Trying to Solve the Mysterious $200M BitMart Hack
A missing pile of Safemoon and other cryptocurrencies, accusations of broken promises, and then nothing.
When a high-profile cyber attack takes place and hundreds of...
BNB Chain Halted After Suspected Hack, $536M Compromised
BNB Chain has been halted after one of the biggest BNB holders started displaying erratic on-chain behavior, suggesting a hack.
At around 17:30 UTC the...
Diving into the $320M Wormhole Bridge Hack
The full story behind the exploit that led to the fraudulent minting of 120,000 wETH and threatened to crash Solana.
Early February of 2022 was...
Tracing Private Cryptocurrencies
Many believe total anonymity is possible using privacy enhanced cryptocurrencies. It might not always be the case.
Are popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum private?
Absolutely...
The $160M Wintermute Hack: Inside Job or Profanity Bug?
Getting to the bottom of the exploit that led to one of the biggest hacks in the history of decentralized finance.
In order to understand...
How the Big Binance Bridge Hack Will Change the way People...
$566M worth of BNB was stolen from Binance’s cross-chain bridge BSC Token Hub, but how they responded to the hack will be the most...
What You Need to Know about the $460M MtGox Hack of...
The full story behind the first major crypto hack and how much really was lost.
MtGox was one of the very first platforms on which...
How Crypto’s Biggest Hacker was Found but Never Identified
The $611M Poly Network exploit is the largest crypto hack to date in terms of mark-to-market value and all the stolen funds were returned,...
$30M Stolen From Grim Finance
DeFi protocol Grim Finance said about $30 million was stolen by hackers exploiting a reentrancy vulnerability in their platform. A security flaw in the...
What the Biggest Blockchain Game’s Hack Reveals about the Future of...
Axie Infinity’s Ronin Bridge Hack for $551M worth of crypto assets could paradoxically lead to higher rates of blockchain adoption by showing that it’s...
$31 Million Hack of Meerkat Finance
On March 4, 2021 Binance Smart Chain-based yield farming protocol Meerkat Finance lost $31 million in user funds - just one day after launching...
How KuCoin Survived a Massive Hack of $285M Worth of Crypto...
When attacked, some crypto projects and exchanges buckle and fold under pressure; KuCoin set the standard in 2020 for how to react to crypto...
Potential $600M FTX Hack
In the midst of the FTX meltdown, the once 2nd largest exchange appears to also be facing one of the largest crypto hacks of...
How the Nomad Bridge Hack can Help Us Explore the Potential...
One attacker and hundreds of copycats looted the Nomad bridge for over $190 million; few did the right thing.
Decentralization is a hot-button topic in...