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A textured blue-to-white gradient form dominates, embodying a complex distributed ledger technology DLT. A smooth, pearlescent white object flows around it, signifying dynamic smart contract execution and liquidity provision. A glossy, dark blue abstract element suggests robust institutional adoption frameworks. Two distinct spheres, translucent white and solid dark blue, symbolize diverse tokenomics and digital asset management within the ecosystem.

Unchecked arithmetic in a legacy yETH contract allowed an attacker to mint infinite tokens, creating a systemic risk for all dependent liquidity pools.

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→Precision Loss Vulnerability

→Multisig Execution

→Flash Loan Attack

Sonne Finance Lending Protocol Drained $20m Exploiting Compound Fork Flaw

A known Compound V2 fork precision loss vulnerability was weaponized via flash loan, enabling exchange rate manipulation to drain $20M in assets.

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→Blockchain Security Research

→Autonomous Exploitation

→Automated Exploit Generation

AI Agents Autonomously Exploit Smart Contracts Discovering Zero-Days

Frontier AI models, including GPT-5 and Claude, now demonstrate human-level capability to autonomously discover and exploit zero-day smart contract vulnerabilities, accelerating the threat landscape.

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→Legacy Contract Exploit

→Token Approval Risk

→Revoke Token Approvals

Goldfinch User Wallet Drained via Legacy Contract Share Price Manipulation

A legacy contract approval flaw was weaponized by an attacker to manipulate share price and drain $330K, underscoring systemic risk in stale permissions.

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→Risk Mitigation

→Single Point Failure

→Administrative Flaw

Major Market Maker Suffers $44 Million Loss from Operational Security Compromise

A private key compromise in a high-frequency trading environment led to a $44M drain, underscoring systemic risk in centralized asset management.

$A fractured digital asset, resembling a genesis block, rests on a pristine white landscape. One half, a clear, crystalline structure, suggests transparent on-chain data. The other, a deep blue, glowing fragment, symbolizes the intrinsic value and complex tokenomics of a core protocol. This split visualizes sharding or a hard fork, revealing deep liquidity within a decentralized ecosystem. The surrounding snow-like formations evoke cold storage security for this valuable digital asset.$

→White-Hat Recovery

→Layer One Security

→Non-Native Asset Loss

Berachain BEX Fork Exploited, Forcing Emergency Network Hard Fork

The inherited Balancer V2 access-control flaw enabled a $12M fee-fabrication exploit, mandating a contentious L1 network halt for a hard fork patch.

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→Post-Mortem Analysis

→Assets

→Legacy Contract Risk

Yearn Finance yETH Pool Drained Exploiting Cached Storage Arithmetic Flaw

A critical failure in state transition logic allowed a minimal 16 wei deposit to mint infinite tokens, leading to a $9 million loss via arithmetic overvaluation.

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→On-Chain Forensics

→Custom Contract Risk

→Code Audit Gap

Yearn Finance StableSwap Pool Drained by Infinite Token Minting Flaw

Unchecked arithmetic in a custom yETH contract enabled a token supply inflation attack, leading to a $9 million liquidity drain.

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→Insurance Fund

→Low Liquidity Asset

→Perpetual Trading

Perpetual DEX Suffers Economic Exploit from Low-Liquidity Asset Manipulation

The liquidation engine was exploited by manipulating a low-cap asset's price, forcing the protocol to absorb $4.9 million in bad debt.

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→Security Benchmark

→Economic Exploit

→On-Chain Forensics

AI Agents Autonomously Exploit Smart Contract Zero-Days in Simulated Attack

Autonomous AI models demonstrate the capacity to discover and exploit novel zero-day smart contract vulnerabilities, accelerating the time-to-exploit window.

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Yearn Finance Legacy Contract Exploited by Infinite Token Minting Flaw