Weekly Deep Dive
One in-depth research report each week on a single DeFi news story, project or event from the previous seven days. Every report covers the background, a mechanical breakdown of how it worked, the reconciled data, an impact assessment, and the risk points that follow.
7 reports
Weekly Deep Dive: The 79thVault Drain and the Single Key That Moved $12.5m
How a single OPERATOR_ROLE key drained about $12.5m from 79thVault on BNB Chain in 54 minutes — seven privileged calls, a forced pool re-sync, roughly 95 sell swaps — and how a settlement offer recovered 92% of it two days later.
Weekly Deep Dive: The NEAR Intents Exploit That Ended With Every Dollar Back
How a $3.865m exploit at NEAR Intents became the first fully-recovered incident in this series: one hour to patch, 11 networks paused, a public ultimatum, an on-chain negotiation, and every dollar back in roughly 36 hours.
Weekly Deep Dive: How a Spoofed Backend Feed Signed Away $387.5m at Bitget
How attackers made Bitget's own wallet backend sign away about $387.5m: a third-party product flaw, high-level credentials, a spoofed transaction feed, and the response machinery now being tested.
Weekly Deep Dive: How a Reordered Withdrawal Took $7.8m of rsETH
How an MEV bot took about $7.8m of rsETH by reordering a valid withdrawal ahead of a pause: a self-authorising Safe module, a 19 ETH priority fee, and the recovery plan that follows.
Weekly Deep Dive: How a Reused Memo Made Chainflip Pay Twice
How an attacker made Chainflip pay the same TRON deposit twice: a memo-attachment flaw, a refund path that trusted its own input, and the recovery plan that follows.
Weekly Deep Dive: How a Range-Proof Cache Drained 95% of Liquid Network's Reserve
How roughly 3,996 BTC left Liquid Network's federation reserve without a single key being compromised: a range-proof caching flaw, a redemption flow that checked procedure rather than provenance, and a merged fix that had not shipped.
Weekly Deep Dive: The Tectonic Exploit and the Collateral-Pricing Attack Pattern
A full research report on the 30 August 2026 Tectonic exploit: what happened, how a thin governance token was turned into $75m of borrowing capacity, why three different loss figures are all defensible, and what the collateral-pricing attack pattern means for every lending venue in DeFi.