DeFi Security Deep Dives Series' Articles

ohmygod

Mar 13

Anatomy of a $50M DeFi Slippage Disaster: How MEV Bots Ate a Whale's Lunch on Aave

#security #blockchain #defi #ethereum

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4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 14

The Upgradeable Contract Kill Chain: How Uninitialized Proxies Became DeFi's $200M+ Recurring Nightmare

#security #solidity #web3 #defi

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6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 15

EIP-7702 and the CrimeEnjoyor Epidemic: How Ethereum's Account Abstraction Upgrade Became an Attacker's Dream

#ethereum #security #web3 #smartcontracts

3 min read

ohmygod

Mar 15

The Step Finance Autopsy: How a $40M Solana Protocol Died From Compromised Laptops, Not Buggy Code

#security #solana #defi #blockchain

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 15

Collateral Manipulation in DeFi Lending: How Venus Protocol Lost $3.7M to an Illiquid Token Exploit

#security #defi #blockchain #solidity

4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 16

Beyond Property Testing: How Coverage-Guided Fuzzing Is Rewriting the Smart Contract Security Playbook in 2026

#security #blockchain #solidity #solana

4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 16

Solana Restaking Security in 2026: The Hidden Risk Surface of NCNs, VRTs, and the Coming Slashing Era

#security #solana #defi #web3

7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 17

MEV Protection on Solana in 2026: A Developer's Complete Guide to Defending Users Against Sandwich Attacks

#solana #security #defi #blockchain

7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 17

Inherited Poison: How SagaEVM Lost $7M to an Ethermint Precompile Bug It Didn't Write

#security #blockchain #defi #cosmos

7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 17

MCPwned: How the Model Context Protocol Is Becoming DeFi's Newest Attack Surface

#security #web3 #defi #blockchain

6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 18

DeFi Circuit Breakers in 2026: From ERC-7265 to Aave Shield — Five Patterns That Actually Work

#solidity #defi #security #blockchain

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7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 18

The dTRINITY Index Anomaly: How 772 USDC Became $4.8M in Collateral and Drained a DeFi Lending Protocol

#security #defi #ethereum #web3

6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 18

The Solana CPI Security Playbook: 7 Cross-Program Invocation Patterns That Prevent Nine-Figure Exploits

#solana #security #blockchain #webdev

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 18

Inside the Venus Protocol Exploit: How 9 Months of Patience and a Donation Attack Bypassed Supply Caps to Drain $3.7M

#security #defi #smartcontracts #web3

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5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 19

EIP-1153 Transient Storage Security Traps: How a Gas Optimization Killed SIR.trading and What Your Reentrancy Guard Is Missing

#solidity #security #ethereum #defi

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6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 19

CPI Reentrancy Is Back: A Solana Developer's Defense Playbook for Token-2022 Transfer Hooks

#solana #security #web3 #smartcontracts

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 19

The $50M Swap Disaster: Why DeFi Frontends Need Circuit Breakers, Not Just Checkboxes

#defi #security #web3 #smartcontracts

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 20

The Venus Protocol Donation Attack: How 9 Months of Patience and 3 Lines of Missing Code Led to a $3.7M Extraction

#security #web3 #defi #blockchain

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5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 22

The Transient Storage Trap: Why EIP-1153 Gas Savings Are Creating a New Generation of Smart Contract Vulnerabilities

#security #ethereum #smartcontracts #web3

4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 23

The Venus Protocol Donation Attack: How 9 Months of Patience Bypassed Three Lines of Defense

#security #defi #blockchain #smartcontracts

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 23

EVMbench and the Arms Race: How AI Agents Are Rewriting Smart Contract Security — And What Defenders Must Do Now

#security #solidity #smartcontracts #defi

4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 23

The Venus Protocol Donation Attack: How an Attacker Turned $0.27 THE Tokens Into a $3.6M Payday

#security #defi #smartcontracts #blockchain

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 24

The Venus Protocol Donation Attack: How a 9-Month Setup Broke Three Lines of Defense

#security #defi #blockchain #smartcontract

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5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 24

The Approval Paradox: How SwapNet's $13.4M Arbitrary Call Exploit Exposes DeFi's Infinite Allowance Time Bomb

#security #ethereum #defi #solidity

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 24

The Truebit Integer Overflow: How a Forgotten SafeMath Gap Turned a 2021 Contract Into a $26M ATM

#security #ethereum #defi #solidity

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 24

The Makina Finance Exploit: How $280M in Flash Loans Turned a Curve Pool Oracle Into a $4M ATM

#security #defi #ethereum #blockchain

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 25

OWASP Smart Contract Top 10: 2026 — Reentrancy Falls to #8, Proxy Bugs Enter, and Your New Audit Priorities

#security #blockchain #smartcontracts #web3

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5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 25

EVMbench: OpenAI and Paradigm's New Benchmark Proves AI Agents Can Exploit 71% of Smart Contract Vulns

#security #web3 #defi #smartcontracts

3 min read

ohmygod

Mar 26

The Venus Protocol Donation Attack: How a 9-Month Ambush Turned a $14.5M Supply Cap Into a $53M Trojan Horse — And How to Donation-Proof Your Lending Fork

#security #defi #solidity #web3

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4 min read

ohmygod

Mar 26

The Resolv USR Stablecoin Exploit: How a Compromised Off-Chain Signer Let an Attacker Mint 80M Unbacked Tokens and Steal $25M

#security #blockchain #defi #webdev

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 28

Mutation Testing for Solidity: The Audit Quality Metric Your Protocol Is Ignoring

#security #solidity #smartcontracts #defi

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6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 28

The Aave CAPO Oracle Misfire: How a Timestamp-Ratio Desync Liquidated $26M in wstETH — A Deep Dive for DeFi Builders

#defi #security #ethereum #smartcontracts

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5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 29

The $7M SagaEVM Precompile Exploit: How a Cross-Chain Validation Bypass Minted Stablecoins From Thin Air

#security #web3 #defi #solidity

7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 29

The $40M Step Finance Kill: How Compromised Executive Devices Bypassed Every On-Chain Defense — And a 7-Layer OpSec Playbook for Solana Treasury Teams

#solana #security #defi #web3

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7 min read

ohmygod

Mar 29

The Custom Detector Arms Race: Building Slither, Aderyn, and Semgrep Rules That Catch the Vulnerability Patterns Default Scanners Miss

#security #solidity #defi #web3

9 min read

ohmygod

Mar 29

The Aave V3 Fork Vulnerability Epidemic: Rounding Bugs, Index Desync, and a $260M Attack Surface

#security #solidity #defi #web3

8 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

Omnistealer: How Blockchain-Embedded Malware Turns TRON, Aptos, and BSC Into an Unkillable C2

#security #blockchain #defi #web3

6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

The Composability Tax: How DeFi Protocol Interactions Create Emergent Vulnerabilities Neither Protocol Can Detect Alone

#security #defi #solidity #web3

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

The AI Exploit Agent: How Autonomous AI Discovers DeFi Vulnerabilities at $0.50/Attempt — And 6 Defense Patterns

#security #ai #defi #web3

9 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

Read-Only Reentrancy: The Silent Price Oracle Killer Every DeFi Protocol Still Gets Wrong

#security #blockchain #defi #solidity

5 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

DeFi Time-Bomb Vulnerabilities: How Forked Code With Hidden Assumptions Has Cost $85M+ in 2026 — And a 5-Layer Detection Framework

#security #defi #solidity #web3

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8 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

The $679K BCE Burn Exploit: How a Defective Burn Mechanism Drained a PancakeSwap Pool

#security #defi #web3 #solidity

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6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

The Proxy Upgrade Kill Switch: Why OWASP SC10 Means Your Upgradeable Contract Is Exploitable

#security #solidity #defi #web3

6 min read

ohmygod

Mar 30

The Phantom Approval: How ERC-2612 Permit Signatures Are Being Weaponized to Drain DeFi Wallets Without On-Chain Traces

#security #blockchain #defi #solidity

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6 min read