DeFi

Hong Kong’s Flow Capital plans to bring $150 million private credit fund onchain: report

Distributed Tokenized RWA Market to Hit $400B by 2030: Keyrock, Securitize

The Drift Protocol Hack: How Privileged Access Led to a $285 Million Loss

Stablecoins now move more money than Visa and Mastercard combined

Top Crypto Savings Accounts to Earn Interest in 2026

Cardano and Draper Dragon Launch $80M Orion Fund to Boost Institutional Adoption

Audit admin keys, not just code, expert says after $200 million Drift exploit

‘Not an April Fools joke’: Major Solana-based trading platform Drift exploited for at least $200 million

Lido jumps from all-time low as DAO debates $20m buyback programme

Stablecoins expected to grow five-fold to $2tn by 2028. Here’s what’s super-charging the growth

Centrifuge Launches deSPXA on Base, Bringing 24/7 S&P 500 DeFi Access to Non-US Investors

Firelight pushes XRP into DeFi cover as staked total tops 50M

QBots: Professional Algorithmic Trading for the Top 50 Crypto Assets

Hyperliquid’s S&P 500 perpetual tops $100 million in daily volume after licensed launch

Bungled $50m Aave trade highly unlikely to be money laundering, experts say

The Daily: Crypto whale loses almost $50M in DeFi swap, BlackRock’s staked Ethereum ETF sees ‘very solid’ debut, and more

$50 Million DeFi Trade Goes Wrong After Massive Price Impact

Aave Swapper Loses $50M to Slippage

2026's biggest crypto exploit: Kelp DAO hit for $292 million with wrapped ether stranded across 20 chains

Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million exploit on its LayerZero bridge, with attackers draining 116,500 rsETH (18% of circulating supply) and stranding wrapped ether across 20 blockchain networks. The incident triggered emergency freezes on major lending protocols including Aave, SparkLend, Fluid, and Upshift.

DeFi Under Siege: 12+ Crypto Platforms Breached Following Drift Protocol’s $280M Loss

Polkadot bridge exploited, attacker seizes admin control to mint and dump 1B DOT tokens

A Polkadot bridge exploit allowed an attacker to gain administrative control and mint approximately 1 billion DOT tokens, subsequently dumping them on the market. The incident exposes critical vulnerabilities in cross-chain bridge infrastructure, threatening the integrity and user confidence in decentralized finance ecosystems.

Drift says $270 million exploit was a six-month North Korean intelligence operation

Drift exchange suffered a $270 million exploit orchestrated by North Korean intelligence operatives who conducted a sophisticated six-month social engineering campaign. The attackers posed as a legitimate trading firm, met Drift team members in person across multiple countries, and deposited $1 million of their own funds to establish credibility before executing the massive drain.

Drift Protocol Hack: How a North Korean Group Spent Six Months Infiltrating a DeFi Protocol

Drift Protocol suspended all operations after a sophisticated six-month infiltration by a North Korean state-backed group culminating in an exploit on April 1, 2026. The attackers posed as a legitimate trading firm, conducted in-person meetings across multiple countries, and used three attack vectors including a silent code execution flaw in development tools.

Latest crypto hack sees thieves make off with $280 million from Solana DeFi platform Drift

How a Solana feature designed for convenience let attackers drain more than $270 million from Drift