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, according to HyperliquidNews, the Abraxas Capital wallet has reached a new high in perpetual contract profit and loss on Hyperliquid, with cumulative profits totaling $193 million. However, this profit is not purely from directional trading gains, as its positions are hedged through spot assets. The Abraxas Capital wallet currently holds approximately $207.445 million USDC, with a cumulative trading volume of $5.43 billion and an open position size of about $725 million.

Foresight News reports that Tether has announced that 15 Bitcoin mining companies, ASIC manufacturers, and mining pools have committed to jointly build and maintain the integration of its open-source mining development toolkit MDK. MDK aims to unify the access methods of different mining infrastructures, supporting developers in building applications and AI automation systems. Participants will develop and maintain the MDK Worker, converting their respective hardware, mining pool, or system inte

Foresight News reports that Initia posted on the X platform stating that on October 23 at 22:59, an attacker exploited a script caching vulnerability in Initia MoveVM to bypass security checks, forging MoveVM states to credit themselves with unsupported WETH, iUSD, and USDC tokens, while the total supply of these tokens remained unchanged; INIT was not minted, and its total supply was unaffected. Before the network was paused, the attacker transferred out approximately $2.7 million in assets, in

Foresight News reports, according to Crypto In America, that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s previously introduced securities tokenization innovation exemption mechanism has sparked industry controversy, with the debate focusing on which blockchains meet the "public and permissionless" access standards. This exemption allows qualified enterprises to trade tokenized U.S. stocks without registering as traditional securities exchanges, but requires their smart contracts to be au

Foresight News reports that according to Arkham monitoring data, the address labeled as Polygon multisig wallet "0xFA5" has transferred a total of 52,928,000 POL to the staking contract address, valued at approximately 4.82 million USD. Market analysis suggests that the recent increase in Polygon staking activity is related to the rise in APY, and this move may also provide some support for POL, alleviating its downward price pressure.

Foresight News reports that Arthur Hayes posted that he has liquidated Maelstrom's directional trading positions, taking profits on ETH, ENA, UNI, and other altcoins. He believes the market may need to drop before rising, as current macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions pose risks. Therefore, he will temporarily exit and wait for clear signals that the risks have been resolved.

Foresight News reports that, according to Lookonchain monitoring, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes is selling crypto assets worth approximately $22.28 million, involving 7 tokens including ETH, ENA, UNI, ETHFI, AERO, PENDLE, and ZAMA. Specifically: 6,400 ETH (about $15.2 million), 14 million ENA (about $2.76 million), 323,000 UNI (about $2.24 million), 1.89 million ETHFI (about $1.23 million), 546,600 AERO (about $398,000), 120,000 PENDLE (about $244,000), and 3 million ZAMA (about $214,000).

DeFi Needs to Reclaim Its Experimental Spirit: Standard Reserve Wants to Use Stocks for Market Making to Support Tokens. Written by: @ponyo_fp Translated by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News DeFi once excited people so much they couldn’t sleep. From 2020 to 2021, every few weeks someone launched a new mechanism: voting custody, bond issuance, liquidity mining. Some were very clever, some ridiculously dumb, but each forced people to think. Five years later, infrastructure is more mature, capital

Foresight News reports, according to The Block, that Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR) has expanded its stock buyback program from $30 million to $100 million, with approximately $72 million remaining, and the buyback program deadline extended to October 31, 2027. The company's dashboard shows it holds about 38.8 million HYPE, valued at approximately $2.96 billion.

Foresight News reports that, according to CoinDesk, asset management giant Franklin Templeton recently added about $150 million worth of tokenized money market fund shares to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), increasing the total amount of sgBENJI tokens on the network from about 48 million to 193 million. Based on the transaction record price of $1.039 per share, the total value is approximately $200 million.