Tag: DeFi Hack
The $292M KelpDAO hack erased $13 billion from DeFi – and Strategy bought $2.54B in Bitcoin while it burned
$292 million. That’s what the KelpDAO hack drained from a single cross-chain bridge in one transaction on Friday afternoon – making it 2026’s largest DeFi exploit and one of the biggest in crypto history. But the theft wasn’t the real story. What happened next was. Within 48 hours, DeFi protocols hemorrhaged $13.2 billion in total…
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$285M Vanished From Solana’s Top DEX in Minutes – Elliptic Points to North Korea
$285 million. Gone in eleven minutes. Drift Protocol, the largest perpetual futures exchange on Solana, lost nearly everything on April 1 when an attacker drained its vaults in a coordinated exploit that ranks as the biggest DeFi hack of 2026. The DRIFT token crashed 42% within hours. Solana’s total value locked took a hit that…
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