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

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

Foresight News reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, multiple token creators' associated wallets have collected a large amount of SOL and sent it to exchanges. In the past 16 hours, these addresses have deposited a total of 299,838 SOL to Binance and OKX, valued at approximately 26 million USD.

Foresight News reports that the Zcash community has proposed implementing multiple chain upgrade proposals in the NU8 network upgrade scheduled for the end of January 2027. The content includes launching the Tachyon shielded pool; introducing a scalable transaction format; increasing the maximum block size from 2MB to 8MB; adding post-quantum transparent opcodes (adding 128-bit and 192-bit secure variants of SPHINCs), among others. Other plans include adjusting the NSM reallocation date to arou

Foresight News reports that NEAR AI tweeted that the NEAR AI cloud is back online. The team has fixed all vulnerabilities on the servers and replaced the affected credentials. NEAR Protocol and other NEAR services were not affected, and a full incident report will be released soon.

Foresight News reports that former Chainlink Head of Product Marketing Michael Robinson tweeted that he has joined the Monad Foundation and will be responsible for marketing-related work in the future. Michael Robinson worked at Chainlink from 2021 to 2026.

Foresight News reports that Morgan Stanley has reached an agreement to acquire the transfer agent and shareholder record management platform Vinyl Equity. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2027. This acquisition will add transfer agent capabilities to Morgan Stanley at Work, enabling the company to manage cap table administration, equity management, share transfers, and wealth management on a single platform. At the same time, Morgan Stanley will strengthen the

Foresight News reports that, according to The Block, DECA Labs, a proxy-centric software commercialization network, has completed a $12 million funding round with participation from Polychain Capital, Pantera Capital, Accel, and dao5. The raised funds will be used to accelerate the construction of DECA's proxy infrastructure, expand the network to more developers and proxies, and broaden its partnerships.

Foresight News reports that NEAR AI tweeted it has closed the related unauthorized access and continues to complete the investigation. NEAR AI Cloud will remain suspended until it can safely resume. NEAR Protocol and other services are unaffected, and the team stated they will provide further updates within two hours. Previously, NEAR AI tweeted that it recently discovered unauthorized access to its internal systems and has currently suspended NEAR AI Cloud inference services as a precaution to