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Spot Volume, Funding Rates, and BSC Exploits
Ethereum DEXes record over $10 billion in volume Funding rates are still wayward PancakeBunny Finance exploited...Spot volumes across CEXes and DEXes, ETH's funding rate is still wayward, and the PancakeBunny Finance exploit...
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DeFi
May 2021
AI Just Automated DeFi Exploits
...contracts (a 62.96% success rate) and pulled theoretical profits of nearly $8.6 million from a single exploit...Land one decent exploit worth $100k and you’ve got funding for 33k more attempts....Meanwhile, bounties usually cap at 10% of the exploit value....Now imagine every basement dweller with an OpenAI subscription running automated exploit farms. ...
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DeFi
Aug 2025
ETH Active Addresses Surge, Deep Dive on Soulbound Tokens
🚨 In Case You Missed It Nomad Bridge was exploited, with over $190M of liquidity drained by hundreds...🚨 In Case You Missed It Nomad Bridge was exploited, with over $190M of liquidity drained by hundreds...
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Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2022
DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
The collapse of FTX created a window of opportunity that DEXs have thus far failed to exploit....Without price impact, Synthetix perps are theoretically vulnerable to the same exploit GMX v1 suffered...An exploiter could long/short an asset on Synthetix, and then make the same trade on a CEX.
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Derivatives
Jul 2023
The Current State of Crypto Insurance
...and saw increasing deposits to smart contracts, this created lucrative opportunities for hackers and exploiters...As crypto adoption increases, it’s important for protocols and their users to safeguard against exploits...How do protocols and users protect themselves from these exploits?...When an exploit happens, the user can file a claim with relevant evidence.
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Asset Management
Nov 2022
Oasis TVL, Balancing Balancer, ZK Landscape Update
Chart of The Day: Oasis TVL Plunges due to a Potential EVODefi Exploit TVL on Oasis Network, a privacy-enabled...Chart of The Day: Oasis TVL Plunges due to a Potential EVODefi Exploit TVL on Oasis Network, a privacy-enabled...
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Layer 2 / L2
Jun 2022
Is This The Most Reliable BTC Bottom Signal?
🚨 In Case You Missed It Acala Network suffered an exploit where hackers minted over 1.2 billion aUSD...🚨 In Case You Missed It Acala Network suffered an exploit where hackers minted over 1.2 billion aUSD...
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Macro & Markets
Aug 2022
Money Market ALPHA
...depressed valuation could be its ~$37.5m outstanding debt to Cream’s Iron Bank that resulted from an exploit...When will Alpha shake off its hangover from the Iron Bank exploit? The timing is anyone’s guess....When will Alpha shake off its hangover from the Iron Bank exploit?
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Money Markets
Jul 2021
Out From Chaos Comes THORSynths
First, we will share our brief assessment on the recent unfortunate exploit....The exploit was pulled by taking advantage of a recent feature that was added to enhance THORChain’s...The exploit was followed by arbs who took advantage of the situation by purchasing cheap ETH....Exploits are part of crypto.
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Layer 1 / L1
Jul 2021
MATIC and BNB Outperform in the Wake of FTX Fallout
Audits and code reviews can help safeguard against exploits and are an obvious first step, but they do...not remove all of the risks associated with exploits....To remove their risk of smart contract exploits, the user goes to an insurance protocol and purchases...A small premium is paid, but when an exploit happens, the user can file a claim with relevant evidence...
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Infrastructure
Nov 2022
How Nexus Can Incentivize Auditors
On February 13th, Alpha Homora V2 was exploited for ~$38m, despite the fact that the contracts involved...Why was the possibility of this exploit missed during their review?...To be fair, the exploit was incredibly complex and it’s certainly possibly this attack vector was overlooked...We should expect that whatever can be exploited, will be.
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Insurers
Feb 2021
Harvest Finance
...adding new strategies and has achieved a fairly sticky TVL despite succumbing to one of DeFi’ largest exploits...The Exploit and Its Implications On Oct. 26, an exploit saw $24 million siphoned out of Harvest Finance...The Harvest team announced a plan to make anyone affected by the exploit whole again.
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Vaults
Feb 2021
Sushiswap on Polygon, ETH Outperforms BTC, and Rising Gas Prices
...pic.twitter.com/OWtXAIs1l8 — Alpha Finance Lab (@AlphaFinanceLab) May 10, 2021 A rundown of the Rari Capital exploit...1/7 Rari Capital lost a lot of funds as a result of a complex exploit, right?...However, things are far from simple, and we witnessed the first cross-chain exploit, so let’s see how...
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Infrastructure
May 2021
BitDAO Accumulates, CowSwap Soars, & Azuki's Recent Rise
Notable Tweets Wormhole’s 120k ETH Exploit How did the @wormholecrypto exploit work?...I joined forces with @gf_256 and @ret2jazzy to reverse engineer the exploit, and now that it’s been patched...
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Spot Exchange
Feb 2022
Delphi Bi-Weekly Analyst Call (July 20th, 2021)
00:05 – Intro with Medio. 00:47 – General Crypto Markets with Kevin. 10:18  – Thorchain’s Security, exploit...Thorchain’s Security, exploit with Can:  3.
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Layer 1 / L1
Jul 2021
LooksRare Wash Trades, Ohm Forks Fall, ETH 2.0 Staking
...utm_campaign=Tier-1-Announcement —  Polygon | $MATIC 💜  (@0xPolygon) January 18, 2022 Multichain Exploit...⚠️⚠️Users haven’t revoked weth approval are currently being exploited (445weth total affected)!
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NFT Marketplace
Jan 2022
This Week’s Forum Threads (August 2nd)
...are this weeks forum debates I recommend you follow: Aave’s CRV Market Debate With the recent Curve exploit...A token struggling post exploit is nothing new for DeFi....Still, an exploit affecting a major DeFi protocol has substantial ramifications for the entire ecosystem...A token struggling post exploit...
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DAO
Aug 2023
Yield Farming Recap
Balancer has led DEX volume with $32.4 million, though this is somewhat due to the recent Balancer pool exploit...First, an exploit involving draining pool funds (a good recap can be found here). ...
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DeFi
Jun 2020
Aave V3: A Multi-Chain Liquidity Protocol
Its notoriety for lax listing requirements has made it a key target for exploits....The most recent exploit involved manipulating the price of a wrapped token, yUSDvault....Interestingly, Cream’s $130m exploit uncovered a potential vulnerability in Aave as well, and the Aave...Recent exploits of the Float Protocol and Vesper fuse pools are both testament to these risks.
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Money Markets
Feb 2022
Football Fan Tokens Crater as the FIFA World Cup 2022 Begins
🐣 Notable Tweets Thoughts on Robust Prediction Markets Why don’t robust prediction markets for exploits...E.g. will protocol X suffer a hack by Y date Gives hackers a way to exploit a protocol, trigger the event...
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Sports
Nov 2022