Crypto payment processor Coinsbuy was hit by a security breach on August 9, 2026, draining over $7.9 million from wallets across Ethereum and TRON networks. The attacker converted stolen assets into Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that complicates transaction tracing.
BitGo has replaced LayerZero with Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive cross-chain provider for Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), bringing the total value of assets migrating from LayerZero to Chainlink to approximately $14.6-15 billion following recent security concerns.
Moonbeam froze all GLMR token transactions at 23:59 UTC on July 31, 2026, as part of its migration to relaunch on the Base network. Users who missed the migration window are being instructed to contact support via email.
The Bank for International Settlements reported Project Agorá completed $1 million in real-value cross-border payment trials, with 28 financial institutions settling transactions across six currencies in about 80 seconds.
Major global banks including JPMorgan, Citibank, and UBS successfully settled real cross-border payments using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits in a pilot program coordinated by the Bank for International Settlements.
Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch publicly launched Aqua, a shared liquidity protocol across 13 EVM chains, with a 10 million 1INCH incentive program. The protocol allows liquidity providers to approve wallet balances rather than depositing into pools, with tokens moving only when trades execute.
An attacker exploited a missing eight-byte check in Across Protocol's offchain code to fabricate $41.7 million in Solana deposit events, draining approximately $4 million from a Risk Labs-operated relayer on July 17, 2026. The attack was part of a broader wave of cross-chain bridge exploits that drained over $35 million across multiple protocols within hours.
Singapore-based cryptocurrency payment firm Triple-A lost over $9.7 million from its hot wallets across six blockchains on July 24-25, 2026, according to security firms PeckShield and on-chain analyst Specter. The incident affected wallets on TRON, Ethereum, TON, Solana, and other chains.
Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, an enterprise platform that enables institutional customers to mint, redeem, bridge, and manage Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin through web interface and API integration. The platform provides multichain bridging capabilities and automated management tools for institutional operations.
Ripple has made an undisclosed strategic investment in Notabene, which describes itself as the operator of the world's largest open network for regulated on-chain transactions. The companies plan to integrate RLUSD into Notabene Flow and explore how Notabene's payment authorization capabilities could complement Ripple Payments. According to Notabene, its broader compliance and authorization network facilitates more than $2 trillion in annualized transaction volume.
Stacks published its Q2 2026 report stating that cumulative users surpassed 1.6 million and that PoX-5, the mechanism powering Bitcoin Staking, had reached public testnet and was undergoing an audit ahead of a planned Q3 mainnet launch. Separately, the Sui Foundation launched the Hashi testnet on July 22, 2026, allowing BTC locked on the Bitcoin network to be represented by hBTC for use as collateral on Sui, with more than 25 institutional partners testing integrations.
Two unrelated bridge exploits hit AFX Trade and Verus Protocol within seven hours, draining approximately $24 million and $7.5 million respectively through compromised bridge infrastructure on Arbitrum and other chains.
LayerZero Labs and Keeta announced a partnership to make tokenized commercial bank money natively transferable across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and the Keeta Network. Keeta Stablecoins will be backed by commercial bank deposits held through Bivo, a U.S.-licensed financial technology platform, and are scheduled to become available later in July 2026 in nine currencies.
Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Abu Dhabi's $385 billion sovereign wealth fund, has launched a tokenized version of one of its private markets investment strategies on multiple blockchains including Solana, Sui, and Base, with Coinbase taking exposure in the fund through a partnership with Abu Dhabi FinTech firm Kaio.
Ring Protocol has integrated Orbs-powered infrastructure to support decentralized limit and TWAP orders across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain, bringing advanced trading features typically found on centralized exchanges to decentralized platforms.
Chainlink has extended its Proof of Reserve oracle service to provide onchain reserve data across Ethereum, Base, Monad, and Ink networks, as the crypto industry continues emphasizing asset verification following the 2022 FTX collapse.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs reports that cryptocurrency exchange HTX has been systematically rotating its hot wallets and deposit addresses across four blockchains since UK authorities imposed sanctions on the platform in May 2026, making sanctions enforcement more difficult.
Corporate finance platform Ramp has opened stablecoin accounts and payment capabilities to business clients, leveraging Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure with Bridge handling dollar conversions and Privy managing balance storage.
A security breach in Wanchain's bridge connecting Cardano to BNB Chain resulted in the theft of between 290-515 million NIGHT tokens (valued at approximately $10M), causing the Midnight privacy network token to plunge 43% to a record low of $0.01524 before rebounding 19%. Seven major exchanges have frozen stolen funds.
Cross-chain bridge protocol Allbridge Core has paused operations following a flash loan exploit that drained approximately $1.65 million from its Solana stablecoin liquidity pools. The attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan from Kamino to manipulate pool ratios before bridging funds to Ethereum.
The Linux Foundation has formally launched the x402 Foundation, backed by major payment networks including Visa, Mastercard, and Ripple, to create an open standard for internet-native payments by AI agents and applications. The protocol, originally developed by Coinbase, processed 75 million transactions worth $24 million last month.
Japan's dominant security token platform completed migration of ¥452 billion ($3 billion) in regulated assets from Corda 5 to a dedicated Avalanche L1, achieving 3–5x faster transfers. Concurrently, BlackRock's BUIDL fund on Avalanche surged 105% in seven days to surpass $900 million.
Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend (also referred to as Sauce Protocol) suffered approximately $9 million in losses after an attacker manipulated the price oracle for SAUCE collateral, allowing them to borrow assets far beyond deposited value. The stolen funds were bridged from Hedera to Ethereum.
Syscoin halted its bridge after an attacker exploited a validation issue to mint approximately 5 billion unauthorized SYS tokens on the network's UTXO chain. The project is tracing the unauthorized tokens and investigating the breach.
Virtuals Protocol has migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as its exclusive cross-chain infrastructure, moving more than $700 million in VIRTUAL tokens through the new protocol.
Aave published an official postmortem tracing a $230 million exploit to a LayerZero bridge verification failure and announced a sweeping overhaul of its asset-listing standards as DeFi risks shift beyond smart contract bugs.
Gravity Bridge, the cross-chain bridge connecting Ethereum and Cosmos, was exploited for approximately $5.4 million in digital assets including $4.3 million in USDC and 274 ETH, with investigators pointing to a compromised signing key rather than a smart contract vulnerability.
Echo Protocol suffered a bridge exploit where an attacker minted 1,000 eBTC (worth approximately $76.64 million) on Monad using a compromised admin key, then used the fake eBTC to borrow real crypto assets. The protocol suspended all cross-chain transactions.
The Verus-Ethereum cross-chain bridge was drained of approximately $11.5 million on May 18 through a forged Merkle proof exploit. The attack adds to May 2026's growing tally of DeFi exploits and brings the year's total bridge hack losses to $329 million.
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation announced it will adopt Chainlink's Runtime Environment (CRE) for its blockchain-based Collateral AppChain, with launch targeted for Q4 2026. The integration follows a wave of DeFi protocols migrating to Chainlink after the KelpDAO exploit.
Following a $292 million KelpDAO exploit, crypto projects with over $3 billion in total value locked migrated their cross-chain infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP. Solv Protocol moved $700 million in tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure as part of the migration.
Solv Protocol announced migration of SolvBTC and xSolvBTC from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol across Corn, Berachain, Rootstock and TAC networks, covering approximately $700 million in assets.
The Arbitrum Security Council froze $71 million worth of ETH stolen in the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, with funds only movable through further governance action. Kelp DAO and LayerZero continue to dispute responsibility for the bridge vulnerability.
Attackers drained approximately 116,500 rsETH (roughly $292-293 million) from Kelp DAO's LayerZero-powered bridge, causing emergency freezes across multiple DeFi protocols including Aave, SparkLend, Fluid, and Upshift. The exploit represents 2026's largest crypto hack to date and impacted at least nine protocols.
Hyperbridge has raised its loss estimate from the Token Gateway exploit from an initial $237,000 to $2.5 million, with some funds traced to Binance. The Polkadot-Ethereum bridge protocol significantly underestimated the scope of the security breach.
An attacker exploited Polkadot-based Hyperbridge to mint 1 billion bridged DOT tokens on Ethereum through a forged cross-chain message, ultimately stealing approximately $237,000. Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb suspended DOT deposits and withdrawals.
