North Korea launders stolen Binance crypto via fake DeFi tokens
About 117,000 NEAR, valued at $430,000, moved through six disposable NEAR tokens from November 5 to 7.
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Paper says most cross-chain bridge losses repeat known posture failures
Authors say posture failures caused 88% of reported bridge losses since 2023 and claim their rubric would have cut losses from $3.52B to $33M.
Economic-State Manipulation Vulnerabilities in DeFi
ESM study of 276 attacks reveals limited coverage by existing detectors.
Study finds undisclosed Hook charges on Uniswap v4 and PancakeSwap
Across 7,873 Hooks and 50,011 pools, 24.30% can deduct extra amounts, recorded at $3.97M where token prices were available.
Paper proposes fixed-rate permissionless lending with repayment guarantees
Loans keep a fixed rate, and liquidation and shortfall odds are derived by treating collateral value as a random walk.
FPTracer follows laundering across Ethereum DeFi, bridges and mixers
On 20 cases it recalled 98.6% of known laundering addresses and reported 30 extra bridge uses.
ABF-Bench tests agents on verifiable blockchain fund tracing
A memory harness reached 75% edge recall, versus 47% for Codex and 10% for Claude Code.
ABF-Bench makes blockchain fund tracing a verifiable LLM-agent task
Authors report 75% edge recall for their harness, versus 47% for Codex and 10% for Claude Code.
Pump-and-Dump meets Honeypot Tokens: Detection and Analysis of Telegram Bait-and-Trap Schemes
Analysis of 3,677 Telegram events shows DEX bait-and-trap honeypots earned organizers over $7 million.
How Much Must a Private Mempool Hide? Exact Leakage Thresholds for Sandwich Attacks
A theory paper gives exact size-leak thresholds for profitable sandwiches on fee-free Uniswap v2-style AMMs.
Hackers Exploited Ethereum Bridge Contract to Drain Full Balance from Payy Network
Attackers exploited Payy’s Ethereum bridge and drained its full balance, pausing the network.
No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks
Study finds millions of sandwich attacks against supposedly protected order flow across six blockchains.
IntentFuzz: A Protocol-Aware Fuzzer for Automated Invariant Violation Detection in Intent-Based Cross-Chain Bridges
IntentFuzz protocol-aware fuzzer recovers bridge structure from unannotated Solidity and confirmed 22 invariant violations across 24 real-world deployments.
Fraudsters steal $6 million from Tectonic crypto platform after inflating token price
Attackers inflated Tectonic's Tonic token price 100x in 20 minutes and borrowed $74 million against it, stealing $6 million before Cronos halted activity.