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 Trezor has announced the investigation results regarding the hardware implant incident involving the dealer CryptoBilis. On November 11, Trezor released firmware update 2.13.1, which prevents the currently discovered implanted hardware from intercepting any information. However, Trezor advises users who purchased devices from CryptoBilis to create new wallets with new mnemonic phrases and transfer their funds, as the firmware update cannot protect wallet backups that

Foresight News reports that, according to Bloomberg, crypto market maker Wintermute has become the primary user of Hyperliquid's priority data auction mechanism. This mechanism allows traders to bid to pay for early access to upcoming buy and sell orders before they are processed by the exchange, giving their algorithms a few milliseconds to adjust quotes or hedge on other platforms. Blockchain analytics platform Loris Tools found that in the past month, a wallet associated with Wintermute won a

Foresight News reports that, according to the Optimism blog, xStocks, ether.fi, and the Optimism Foundation jointly announced that all tokenized stocks of xStocks have been running natively on the OP Mainnet for several months without the need for cross-chain bridges or wrapping. This covers all components of the Russell 1000 Index as well as assets like NVDAx, TSLAx, QQQx, SPYx, and can be combined with lending markets, DEXs, and other applications on the OP Mainnet. Additionally, ether.fi has

Foresight News reports, according to The Block, that the DeFi Education Fund, Paradigm, Uniswap, and a16z have led the submission of an amicus brief supporting the crypto industry's legal challenge against Illinois' Digital Asset Tax Act. The brief is co-signed by Aave Labs, Chainlink Labs, Figment, Phantom, Hyperliquid Policy Center, Solana Policy Institute, Stand With Crypto, and others. The brief argues that the law is overly broad, imposes unfavorable tax treatment on transactions involving

According to Foresight News, based on Ember monitoring, a whale who went long on BTC and ETH worth $493 million at the end of August has had all their long positions liquidated about an hour ago. The last liquidated long position was valued at approximately $80.12 million. This whale opened a long position of 1,543.87 BTC at an average price of about $82,205 and a long position of 115,470 ETH at an average price of about $2,604 at the end of August. The positions have been repeatedly liquidated

Foresight News reports, according to CoinAnk data, the 24-hour trading volume of NVDA contracts on crypto trading platforms reached $5.24 billion, an increase of 129.96% compared to the previous day, ranking fifth among all contract targets, only behind BTC, ETH, SOXL, and SNDK; the open interest value of xyz:NVDA contracts on Hyperliquid is about $613 million, ranking fourth among all perpetual markets on Hyperliquid, only behind BTC, HYPE, and ETH. Previously, Nvidia announced today that Jens

Foresight News reports that Deloitte has announced the launch of the enterprise AI company Edisyl, which was established after Deloitte completed the acquisition of the on-chain data platform Flipside Crypto's AI business in July 2026. The 24-person operations team from Flipside has fully joined Edisyl, with Flipside's former CEO Dave Balter serving as co-founder. Flipside's crypto data business has been separately sold to Sonaverse.

Foresight News reports that, according to the Polygon blog, the stablecoin SoFiUSD issued by the US licensed bank SoFi has launched on Polygon and joined the Polygon Open Money Stack. SoFi users can directly buy, hold, and exchange SoFiUSD within the SoFi App without setting up a separate wallet. Each SoFiUSD can be redeemed for US dollars at a 1:1 ratio through SoFi Bank. Polygon states that in the future, users will be able to make cross-border transfers around the clock, and eligible users w

Foresight News reports that Securitize tweeted about launching a $100 million BlackRock tokenized fund BUIDL with Ethena, an all-weather liquidity tool. This tool is supported by Ethena and operated by Securitize, allowing eligible investors to exchange BUIDL with supported stablecoins like USDC outside traditional market trading hours, including weekends.

Foresight News reports that the Thailand Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a public consultation on the draft regulatory notice for stablecoin transactions by digital asset operators, with a deadline of November 26. The draft stipulates that when customers transfer stablecoins in or out through digital asset operators, the source and target accounts or wallets must be verified as belonging to the customer themselves, prohibiting transfers between accounts or wallets of others.