Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago North Korea Behind 76% of Crypto Hack Losses in Early 2026 North Korea took 76% of all crypto hack losses in the first four months of 2026, per TRM Labs. $577M stolen from Drift Protocol and Kelp DAO by the Lazarus… DeFiCryptoHack
Ilya Bratanov · 5 months ago AI vs Smart Contracts: 72.2% Attack Rate, 36% Defense Rate GPT-5.3-Codex hits 72.2% success attacking DeFi smart contracts but only 36% in detection mode, per Binance Research EVMbench April 2026. Cost: $1.22 per… AIHackBlockchain
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve: 328,372 BTC and a White House Breakthrough 328,372 BTC worth $25.4 billion sit in US custody. Patrick Witt told Consensus 2026 on May 6 a White House “breakthrough” on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is… BitcoinRegulationUnited States
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago AI Agents vs DeFi: Anthropic Report Simulates $4.6M in Exploits Anthropic Fellows 2026 report: GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 simulated $4.6M in DeFi exploits on real contracts. Two live zero-days found on BNB Chain. AIDeFiHack
Hamza Ahmed · 5 months ago BitMine Holds 5.21M ETH: One Firm Controls 4.3% of Ethereum BitMine Immersion Technologies holds 5.21 million ETH, worth $13.4 billion and equal to 4.3% of Ethereum's circulating supply. Target: 5% by December 2026. EthereumStakingDeFi
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Intesa Sanpaolo Doubles Crypto Bet: $235M in Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Intesa Sanpaolo's crypto exposure jumped from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, per its SEC 13F filing. New positions in Ethereum and XRP, plus a $95.9M call option… BanksBitcoinRegulation
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Bitcoin ETF Outflows Hit $1.8B: BlackRock Sheds $448M in One Day Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.8B in outflows across six days in May 2026. BlackRock's IBIT shed $448M on May 18 alone, as CPI data and the Clarity Act vote triggered… BitcoinUnited States
Francesco Campisi · 5 months ago Three DeFi Hacks in Five Days: THORChain, Verus, Echo Three DeFi exploits in five days: THORChain lost $10.8M on May 15, Verus Bridge $11.58M on May 18, Echo Protocol $816K on May 19. Total damage: $23.2 million. HackDeFiBlockchain
Hamza Ahmed · 5 months ago Q-Day and Bitcoin: Citi Warns 25% of BTC Supply Already Quantum-Exposed Citi's May 2026 report finds 4.5-6.7 million BTC already expose public keys on-chain. Q-Day could arrive by 2034, and Bitcoin's governance may be too slow to… BitcoinBlockchainBanks
Giulia Ferrante · 5 months ago Aave Restores WETH Lending: 95% of Kelp rsETH Recovered Aave restored WETH lending on 6 networks on May 18, 2026, as 95% of Kelp DAO's rsETH is recovered via DeFi United. But 30,765 ETH worth $71M remain frozen in… HackDeFiEthereum
