DeFi

April’s exploits were driven less by smart contract bugs and more by social engineering, bridge spoofing, and AI-assisted reconnaissance. DeFi protocols and crypto infrastructure suffered 28 separate exploits totaling $635.2 million in April, the highest […]

Solana ecosystem DeFi protocol Carrot said it will shut down after suffering critical damage from the Drift hack. Carrot asked users to withdraw all remaining funds from the platform by May 14 and added that […]

The promise of decentralized finance was once a clarion call for a democratic financial revolution. It envisioned a world where the rigid, exclusionary walls of traditional banking would be replaced by transparent, automated, permissionless systems. […]

Forget the headline that “a crypto-friendly Fed chair is bullish for DeFi.” On May 15, 2026, Jerome Powell hands the Federal Reserve gavel to Kevin Warsh — a former governor with more than $100 million […]