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Term Finance Loses $8.5M After Attacker Buys Voting Power
Term Finance, an Ethereum-based lending protocol, lost an estimated $8. 5 million after an attacker acquired voting power and used it to force through a malicious governance action, in a Term Finance exploit that drained protocol-controlled funds rather than exploiting a code-level bug.
Term Finance Loses Estimated $8.5M in Governance Exploit
DeFi lending protocol Term Finance lost an estimated $8. 5 million in a governance exploit, an incident that turns a project's own control layer into the attack surface and puts immediate pressure on user funds and protocol trust.
The Sandbox Says It Contained Bridge Exploit Minting Unbacked SAND
The Sandbox said it contained a bridge exploit that minted unbacked SAND on Base and BSC, an asset-integrity incident that touched the token's cross-chain supply rather than a single wallet or routine transfer.
Sandbox halts Base and BNB Chain bridging after exploit
The Sandbox has halted bridging of its SAND token on Base and BNB Chain following an exploit, pulling the cross-chain routes offline as an immediate containment measure. The Sandbox Base and BNB Chain bridge exploit interrupts asset movement between the two networks while the team investigates.
AI Agents Could Make Billion-Dollar Crypto Hacks Look Like 'Pennies,' Industry Leaders Warn
Industry leaders are warning that AI agents could push crypto exploit losses far beyond today's benchmarks, making the sector's current billion-dollar hacks look like "pennies" as automated attackers lower the cost and raise the scale of on-chain theft.
Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7M From Shared Liquidity
Maya Protocol suffered an exploit that drained roughly $1. 7 million from its shared liquidity, a protocol-level security event that put pooled user capital, rather than a single wallet, directly at risk.
Harmony Rollback Plan After Token Forgery Exploit
Harmony Protocol is weighing a network rollback after a token forgery exploit, a move that would undo confirmed chain history and has reopened the debate over whether blockchain immutability holds up under emergency conditions.
Bitcoin Price Level Where Leveraged Long Positions Face Liquidation Risk
Leveraged bulls are traders holding long positions with borrowed funds, betting bitcoin rises. That borrowing amplifies gains, but it also sets a price at which an exchange automatically closes the position to prevent further loss.
Bitcoin nears August lows as Binance longs face cleanout
Bitcoin is eyeing new August lows as leveraged long positions on Binance face a possible "cleanout," a scenario in which crowded bullish bets are forced to unwind and add fresh downside pressure to an already weak market.
Crypto Biz: Bitcoin's $116M Self-Custody Wake-Up Call
A $116 million self-custody loss has become the sharpest reminder yet of the risks that come with holding Bitcoin yourself, reframing the self-custody debate around operational security rather than price action.
Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions Amid Reserve Impact Review
Neutrl has paused both minting and redemptions while it assesses the potential impact on its reserves, halting the two core functions that let users enter and exit its synthetic dollar product until the review is complete.
XRP Bridge Drained for $200,000 After Fake Deposits Were Treated as Real
The loss was reported at $200,000 , with the funds drained from the bridge rather than lost to downtime or a maintenance event. The incident was first surfaced through a post by the txEcosystem account on X .