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Kelp DAO appears to have been exploited for $293 MILLION in the last hour, making it the biggest DeFi hack of 2026.
And it's far from being the only one this month.
Over $600M stolen from DeFi in the last 2 weeks across over 10 different protocols, and AI is only making it easier for hackers.
> Kelp DAO: attacker exploited the LayerZero bridge to drain 116,500 rsETH ($293M), then used it as collateral on Aave to borrow ETH, leaving Aave with bad debt as $AAVE dumps.
> Drift Protocol: $285M drained by North Korean hackers using AI powered social engineering, they spent months building trust with insiders before executing in 12 minutes.
> Rhea Finance: $18M stolen through fake token pools that tricked the protocol's oracle into approving withdrawals.
> Grinex: $15M stolen, sanctioned Russian exchange suspended all operations and blamed "Western intelligence".
> Hyperbridge: attacker minted 1 billion fake bridged DOT with a notional value over $1B, but only extracted about $237K because liquidity was thin.
> BSC TMM pool: $1.67M drained through reserve manipulation.
> Aethir: $423K lost in an access control exploit on their GPU network.
> Dango: $410K stolen through a smart contract bug in their bridge aggregator.
> Silo Finance: $392K gone from a misconfigured oracle.
> CoW Swap: frontend hijacked through DNS attack, site redirected to a phishing page.
> Zerion: hit by North Korean social engineering, credentials stolen.
The attack surface is expanding faster than the defenses.
This is only going to get worse.
Just hopped off an insightful call with some of the @okx team...
CLEAR WINNERS. They're genuinely heading in the right direction... they truly care about the industry and the real grinders building in it.
The vibes? Best I've ever felt from any exchange. Hands down, possibly the strongest team across the entire space rn.
I genuinely think that China is already a thousand years into the future. But because they don’t want to raise suspicion, they simply play along. And then, once in a while, they release something like this, some casual display of technological absurdity, that reminds you they are not on the same technological rat-race like the rest of the world. They own the course.
Short form videos rob us not only of our attention span, but our collective memories of the media we consumed
At least with movies and TV there’s something worth discussing afterwards
if you're a red white and blue blooded american this one’s for you 🦅
i’m partnering with @okx as an affiliate to show off a new angle on airdrops in their x drops club
there's 1M in $SEI rewards live now
i deposited 1k, checked eligibility, and joined in minutes 👇
Making $500,000 - $1,000,000+ / year and living in a low/medium COL area is an insane life hack.
Talk about being able to own a huge house and stack a bunch of capital very quickly.