April 2026 was a bloodbath for DeFi.
Roughly $635M gone across 28 incidents in 30 days (a hack pretty much every single day of the month).
The top of the leaderboard:
> @DriftProtocol, $285M
> @KelpDAO, $293M
> @rhea_finance, $18.4M
> Grinex, $15M
> @wasabi_protocol, $5M+
Blackhats are leveling up, the attack surface keeps growing, and demand for sharp security researchers isn't going anywhere.
If you've ever thought about getting into the field, you're still early π«‘
[C5 is coming.]
Blockchain is one of the few industries where the best people in the space are genuinely accessible, which makes it so easy to learn and grow.
You can study the open sourced code of popular products, make PRs and issues directly to those repos, publicly post about projects you're working on and get direct feedback from some of the brightest minds in this industry.