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Researchers say agents can find vulnerabilities faster, raising pressure on protocols to move beyond point-in-time audits.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 7 min read 
Team statements point to a Polymarket private key compromise rather than core contracts or user funds.
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
The warnings come as XRPL activity, institutional tokenization projects and XRP market interest give fraudsters more narratives to exploit.
OpenAI’s Daybreak may point to the crypto industry’s next security standard of becoming resilient before vulnerabilities are exploited.
Wrench attacks are forcing exchanges and holders to rethink protection as criminals target the people behind private keys.
Aave’s rsETH bad debt shows DeFi’s next security crisis rests in broken assumptions across bridges, governance, collateral listings, and risk controls.
Hundreds of long-inactive Ethereum wallets were swept into a tagged address while researchers and users still debate whether old keys, weak wallet tooling, or another exposure opened the door.
The rescue effort that has already lined up tens of thousands of ETH also exposes the uncomfortable reality that DeFi’s biggest crises still depend on multiple factors.
