As AI fundamentally changes the economics of attacks, and attackers shift their targets from code to people... Written by: ChandlerZ, Foresight News In the first half of 2026, there were 344 security incidents in the crypto space, with cumulative losses of approximately $1.32 billion. According to the Hack3d report released by CertiK in July, the number of security incidents in the first half of the year also increased by 28% year-over-year compared to 2025. The number of security incidents in Q2 surged significantly from 145 last year to 194, a 34% year-over-year increase. The median loss per incident also rose sharply by 60.6% year-over-year, reaching about $169,000, indicating that even routine small to medium attacks are causing significantly greater damage per incident. On a comparable basis, the $1.32 billion loss in the first half of 2026 is actually about 28% higher than the same period last year. Data source: CertiK It is worth noting that incidents causing major asset losses are increasingly concentrated at the operational level, with attackers tending to target operational areas such as key management, identity credentials, and supply chains. Although these types of attacks are not the most numerous, once critical permissions are breached, they often directly impact core project assets, making them more likely to cause significant financial losses. On April 1, 2026, one of Solana's largest perpetual contract platforms, Drift Protocol, was

UK Contraction, EU Expansion, Stablecoins and Euro Trading on the Rise. Written by: Chainalysis Translated by: Luffy, Foresight News Chainalysis, a data research firm in the crypto field, released the 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Report. The Western Europe section of the report mentions that even though the global crypto market is in a downturn, the Western European crypto economy, valued at $2.08 trillion, remains resilient with slight positive growth. The internal landscape of the region s

Foresight News reports that Polymarket's VP of Engineering, Josh, tweeted that the platform has launched a withdrawal address whitelist feature. Users can lock withdrawals to approved addresses, and adding a new address requires email verification and a 48-hour time lock. If the action is not performed by the user, it can be canceled via email to prevent session hijacking or funds being transferred after signing malicious transactions. Additionally, Passkey support will be launched soon to furth

Foresight News reports that Santiment tweeted that wallets holding 1 to 10 BTC increased their holdings by 10,076 BTC in the past two weeks, while wallets holding 10 to 100 BTC increased by 4,131 BTC, totaling over 14,000 BTC. During this period, Bitcoin's price dropped to $75,000. "These types of wallets are usually more patient than retail investors, often accumulating during market panic and reducing holdings after price rises. If the price stabilizes at $75,000 and holdings continue to incre

Foresight News reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a trader holds three short positions with a total unrealized profit of approximately $1.34 million. Among them, the BTC short position (145x leverage) has an unrealized profit of $145,200, the ETH short position (40x leverage) has an unrealized profit of $133,000, and the ETH short position (250x leverage) has an unrealized profit of $1.07 million. The address's 24-hour trading profit and loss is a gain of $851,800.

Foresight News reports, according to SoSoValue data, on November 9 (Eastern US time), Bitcoin spot ETFs had a total net outflow of $201 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was Morgan Stanley ETF MSBT, with a single-day net inflow of $22.0619 million. Currently, MSBT's historical total net inflow has reached $805 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net outflow of $213 m

Foresight News reports that the XRP Ledger Foundation has proposed a quantum-resistant upgrade plan in the 2027 protocol roadmap. The plan aims to allow users to register quantum-resistant signature keys based on the ML-DSA-44 algorithm for existing accounts to guard against future quantum computers breaking traditional public key cryptography systems. The new plan intends to keep the current base transaction fees unchanged, but the quantum-resistant signatures will increase the data size of a s

Foresight News reports that Macau police arrested a mainland Chinese man suspected of defrauding a local resident under the pretext of selling cryptocurrency. The parties agreed to purchase 640,000 USDT for 5 million HKD. After the victim deposited the cash into the suspect's account at a casino in Cotai, the suspect only transferred 40,000 USDT and then left citing smoking as the reason. The victim reported to the police after not receiving the remaining amount. Police investigation found that

Foresight News reports that, according to MistTrack monitoring, Tether froze 5 Ethereum addresses about 8 hours ago. These addresses were active in 2021 and 2023, holding a total of approximately 24.35 million USDT. One of the frozen addresses had interactions with addresses flagged as "phishing" and "pig butchering" scams.

Foresight News reports that glassnode tweeted that altcoin trading volume has returned to normal levels. During September, the total altcoin trading volume once rose to 4 times that of Bitcoin. Speculative altcoin activity coincided with local market tops, when Bitcoin's price peaked at about $87,000.

"Seppuku Clause," Cancer Disclosure, and Dismissal: Why Did the Former EF Employee Sue? Written by: angelilu, Foresight News The Ethereum Foundation (EF) mission statement has become the controversial backdrop of an employment lawsuit in a U.S. federal court. On November 4, Kayleen Fulton (community name Nixo), former head of the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Support Team, filed a lawsuit in Colorado against EF-related entities, manager Bastian Aue, Vitalik, and four others. The case has recen