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 Spreek monitoring, the Initia chain was attacked, with multiple tokens minted infinitely. The attacker has cashed out approximately $2.6 million, and more funds are still being transferred. The attacker's Ethereum address (starting with 0xDD9) currently holds about 1102 ETH, valued at approximately $2.65 million. The initial funds for this address came from Tornado Cash. Additionally, the attacker’s address on the Initia chain still holds assets worth ab

Foresight News reports that Lido tweeted introducing the Turbulence Controls mechanism of its lending product under development, Lido Lend, designed to handle extreme events such as collateral being hacked or stolen, dust attacks, and liquidity crises. Lido Lend is built on a modified version of Morpho Blue, with a separate "Market Controller" set for each market, which can restrict or allow key lending operations but cannot use or transfer user assets. The mechanism includes two types of inter

Foresight News reports that ether.fi announced on Twitter the acquisition of the crypto wallet Zeal. Zeal users can now migrate directly to ether.fi within the Zeal app. The transaction amount was not disclosed. Zeal is a self-custody Visa card spending and cash yield service based on Gnosis Pay.

Foresight News reports that Circle announced the Circle Gateway now supports Circle-issued wrapped Bitcoin cirBTC and Euro stablecoin EURC. Developers and enterprises can hold a unified balance for each asset across multiple chains, enabling cross-chain calls within 500 milliseconds after deposit confirmation, without needing to store funds separately on each chain. Currently, cirBTC supports Arc and Ethereum, while EURC supports Arc, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Solana, and World Chain. Regarding

Foresight News reports that according to DefiLlama data, the top ten projects by protocol revenue in the past 7 days are: Tether approximately $123 million, Circle approximately $48.98 million, Hyperliquid approximately $15.10 million, Pump approximately $14.71 million, Papertrade approximately $13.38 million, Tron approximately $5.56 million, Collector Crypt approximately $5.20 million, Grayscale approximately $4.08 million, Polymarket approximately $3.68 million, Sky approximately $3.13 millio

Foresight News reports that according to Ember monitoring, as crude oil prices rose 4% today, a certain whale's long position in crude oil currently has an unrealized profit of about 1.9 million USD. This whale sold ETH three days ago, which had been bought at a low of 1647 USD, making a profit of 8.99 million USD, and then opened long positions in crude oil worth 51.56 million USD, including 30.78 million USD in CL (WTI crude oil) and 20.78 million USD in BRENTOIL (Brent crude oil).

Foresight News reports that glassnode tweeted that speculative funds shifted to stocks during the Bitcoin bear market. In August, trading volume of TradFi perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid exceeded that of BTC perpetual contracts by more than 3 times, coinciding with the surrender of BTC investors.

Foresight News reports, according to The Intercept, that the crypto industry-funded super PAC Fellowship PAC has only spent on Democratic candidates since June. Since this summer, the PAC has invested $600,000 through Nxum Group to support the re-election of New York State Assemblyman Ritchie Torres, New Hampshire State Assemblywoman Maggie Goodlander, and Virginia State Senator Mark Warner, all considered friendly to the crypto industry. Nxum Group was co-founded by Bo Hines, former executive d

Foresight News reports that YZi Labs announced on Twitter the first batch of members for the Atlas Scout program, consisting of 4 university students from Stanford University, Yale University, University of California Berkeley, and University of California Los Angeles. The selected students will work with the YZi Labs team to participate in early-stage investments in Web3, AI, and biotechnology fields, responsible for sourcing startup projects, conducting preliminary research, and due diligence.

Foresight News reports that Lido announced the launch of 0x02 CSM, allowing node operators to run 0x02 validators with a maximum effective balance of up to 2048 ETH per single validator permissionlessly through the Lido protocol. Operators do not need to provide the full staking amount themselves but only need to pay a deposit, with the first validator key requiring 32 ETH and each subsequent key requiring 30 ETH, while the remaining stake is allocated by the Lido protocol. Compared to independe