As AI fundamentally changes the economics of attacks, and attackers shift their targets from code to people... Written by: ChandlerZ, Foresight News In the first half of 2026, there were 344 security incidents in the crypto space, with cumulative losses of approximately $1.32 billion. According to the Hack3d report released by CertiK in July, the number of security incidents in the first half of the year also increased by 28% year-over-year compared to 2025. The number of security incidents in Q2 surged significantly from 145 last year to 194, a 34% year-over-year increase. The median loss per incident also rose sharply by 60.6% year-over-year, reaching about $169,000, indicating that even routine small to medium attacks are causing significantly greater damage per incident. On a comparable basis, the $1.32 billion loss in the first half of 2026 is actually about 28% higher than the same period last year. Data source: CertiK It is worth noting that incidents causing major asset losses are increasingly concentrated at the operational level, with attackers tending to target operational areas such as key management, identity credentials, and supply chains. Although these types of attacks are not the most numerous, once critical permissions are breached, they often directly impact core project assets, making them more likely to cause significant financial losses. On April 1, 2026, one of Solana's largest perpetual contract platforms, Drift Protocol, was

Foresight News reports that according to the Raydium Q3 2026 report released by Blockworks, driven by the growth of tokenized assets and the rebound in Meme token trading, Raydium's net revenue for Q3 reached $7.99 million, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 264.2%; operating cash flow rose 263.6% quarter-on-quarter to $8.67 million; the total amount of RAY programmatic buybacks reached $5.23 million, up 203.3% quarter-on-quarter, with cumulative buybacks totaling $204 million (accounting for 32.1

Foresight News reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tweeted, "The GENIUS Act marks a watershed moment for the U.S. financial industry, further solidifying the United States' position as the world's crypto capital. Just as President Abraham Lincoln's National Currency Act of 1863 established a national framework for bank-issued currency, the GENIUS Act establishes a federal framework for payment stablecoins in the digital age. The final rule from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller o

Foresight News reports that, according to Bloomberg, prediction market platform Kalshi has reached a tripartite collateral management arrangement with crypto custody institution BitGo. Clients of Kalshi Prime, Kalshi's US-registered futures commission merchant, can use digital assets held at BitGo Bank & Trust as collateral for loans to provide margin for futures positions on the Kalshi exchange. The loans are provided by Kalshi Katalyst, a lending affiliate under Kalshi Prime. Acceptable collat

Foresight News reports that Bitwise released its staking report for Q4 2026 (data up to the end of Q3). The report shows Ethereum staking reached a record high of 43.8 million ETH, accounting for 35.9% of the supply, with a net inflow of 1.99 million ETH for the quarter, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of growth, though staking yield dropped from 2.81% to 2.63%. After the Pectra upgrade, operators merged validators, reducing the number of Ethereum validators from about 1.1 million to 881,0

Foresight News reports that, according to Bloomberg Law, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) submitted a comment letter on the SEC's "Regulation Crypto Assets" proposal, stating that the proposal's exemption of certain digital asset issuances from securities registration would override state securities registration requirements, causing investors to lose protections against fraudulent or abusive issuances. The SEC announced the proposal in August as a measure

Foresight News reports that the GMX governance forum has released proposal GMLabs-003, planning to implement two adjustments starting October 28: First, after repurchasing GT from Solana protocol revenue, the remaining portion will be entirely used to repurchase GMX, and the repurchased GMX will be injected into the staking reward pool; second, a 180-day unstaking lockup period will be introduced for both new and old GMX and esGMX staking positions on Arbitrum and Avalanche. Users must wait 180

Foresight News reports that according to monitoring by Ai Aunt, the "UBTC to ETH whale" has swapped BTC for 3,038.73 ETH through three addresses in the past hour, valued at approximately 7.5 million USD. Since October 11, this whale has cumulatively swapped BTC for over 46,103.3 ETH, amounting to more than 115 million USD, with an average swap price of 2,513.11 USD.

Foresight News reports that Safe Labs has announced the launch of the production version of the decentralized trading security network Safenet within Safe{Shield}. Before execution, Safe multisig transactions will be reviewed by four security companies: BlockSec, Candide, IntentGuard, and OpenCover. Each company must stake a security deposit for their judgment, and incorrect judgments may be penalized. The review results are recorded on-chain. Safenet is currently available to Safe Pro users on

Foresight News reports that Robinhood Crypto tweeted that Robinhood Chain TVL has exceeded $1.14 billion, reaching a new all-time high.

Foresight News reports that the Polkadot Community Foundation issued a security warning on the Polkadot forum stating that the third-party wallet Fearless Wallet's browser extension versions 3.0.1, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, and 3.0.5 contain malicious code. When users unlock their wallets, private keys are sent to servers controlled by attackers. This code was introduced into the extension's public source code on February 19, 2025, as part of a major code change named "TON ecosystem," and was intermittently