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Balancer Warns Legacy V1 LPs to Exit After Pool-Draining Bug | DefiLiban
Balancer has warned its legacy V1 liquidity providers to withdraw their capital after a pool-draining bug surfaced in older pool contracts, framing the issue as an immediate exit event for LPs still parked in the protocol's earliest deployments rather than a routine upgrade.
North Korean Hackers Move Tens of Millions on Hyperliquid
The scale alone is material enough to frame this as a security and market event rather than routine order flow. For related coverage, see DeFi Market Update: TVL, Liquidity and Protocol Activity Overnight | September 1, 2026 .
Cronos Network Halts After Tectonic Exploit Estimated at $75M
The Cronos network halt Tectonic exploit shifted the chain's immediate value proposition from yield access to execution risk, because users first need block production and protocol availability before they can manage collateral.
$1.1M Crypto Card Hack Sends Neobank Token Down 49%
The core facts confirmed so far are narrow. Reporting on the incident describes a crypto card breach with losses near $1.
Cosmos Labs says it mistakenly cleared the bug behind a $5.7 million six-chain hack
Cosmos Labs has acknowledged that a bug it previously reviewed and cleared was later tied to a $5. 7 million exploit that spread across six chains, turning a triage error into a multi-network security incident.
North Korea Hackers Bitcoin Move Raises Risk Flags
North Korea-linked hackers moved roughly $19. 4 million in Bitcoin after a stretch of wallet dormancy, reviving questions about laundering flows and on-chain monitoring rather than confirming any fresh exploit.
The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit
The Sandbox has pledged a 1:1 SAND repayment to affected users after a bridge exploit minted unbacked SAND across Base and BNB Chain, moving to make holders whole while it contains the fallout on its cross-chain infrastructure.
Moonwell Investigates Base Lending Market Exploit
Moonwell is investigating a lending market issue on its Base deployment after security firms flagged what they characterized as a suspected multimillion-dollar exploit, with one report putting the figure near $8. 7 million.
Cosmos Labs urges EVM chains to halt after shared bug drains three networks
Cosmos Labs urged EVM chains to halt operations after a shared bug reportedly drained three networks, warning validators and infrastructure operators of common code exposure across the Cosmos EVM stack.
Term Finance Shuts Meta Vaults After $8.5M Exploit
Term Finance has permanently shut down its Meta Vaults following an exploit that the protocol estimates at roughly $8. 5 million, removing the affected product line from its stack rather than pausing it for later restart.
Pendle Oracle Shift Triggers $36 Million in Liquidations | DeFiLiban
An oracle configuration change on Pendle is being blamed for roughly $36 million in liquidations across leveraged positions tied to the protocol's yield markets, though the full on-chain accounting of the event remains unconfirmed.
3% Token Move Triggers $36M in Ethereum DeFi Liquidations
A token move of roughly 3% cascaded into about $36 million in Ethereum DeFi liquidations, a reminder that in leveraged onchain markets the size of a price swing matters far less than where collateral thresholds sit.