When AI is fundamentally changing the economics of attacks, when attackers shift their focus from code to humans... Written by: ChandlerZ, Foresight News In the first half of 2026, there have already been 344 security incidents in the crypto space, with cumulative losses amounting to approximately $1.32 billion. According to the Hack3d report released by CertiK in July, security incidents in the first half of the year also increased by 28% year-on-year compared to 2025. The number of security incidents in the second quarter surged from 145 last year to 194, a year-on-year increase of 34%. The median loss per incident also surged by 60.6% year-on-year, reaching about $169,000, meaning that even small- to medium-sized attacks occurring daily have significantly amplified destructive power per strike. By comparison, the $1.32 billion loss in the first half of 2026 is actually about 28% higher than the same period last year. Source: CertiK It is worth noting that the events causing significant asset losses are increasingly concentrated at the operational level, with attackers tending to target key management, identity credentials, supply chains, and other operational links. Although these attacks are not the most frequent, once critical permissions are breached, they can directly affect the project's core assets, making it more likely to cause significant financial losses. On April 1, 2026, Drift Protocol, one of Solana's largest perpetual contract platforms, launched

Foresight News reports that Circle Research has published an article proposing the AI Agent service provider reputation rating system Anduin, which ranks service providers based on on-chain "who pays whom" payment relationships to prevent Sybil attacks. The research points out that existing rating and usage metrics are highly susceptible to fraud, with attackers needing only about $0.0027 to boost fake service providers' ratings to the market median level. Anduin requires attackers to make real

Foresight News reports that BitGo tweeted that Unocoin accounts were frozen on November 6, and the freezing mechanism operated as expected. Upon review, recent outgoing transactions were all signed using user keys and backup keys held by Unocoin and broadcast externally on-chain; BitGo was not involved. BitGo stated that Unocoin's wallet uses a 2-of-3 self-custody multisig architecture, with Unocoin holding two keys: the user key and the backup key, while BitGo holds only the third key, which h

Foresight News reports that according to the OpenAI blog, it has launched ChatGPT Wallet, which supports AI Agents to complete payments on behalf of users without obtaining the users' real card information. Each purchase requires the user to confirm via secure verification such as Face ID or fingerprint. This wallet is developed in collaboration with American Express, Mastercard, and Visa, and will first be available to U.S. ChatGPT Pro subscribers through dots, only supporting users aged 18 or

Foresight News reports that Polymarket's Vice President of Engineering, Josh Stevens, tweeted that Polymarket's new matching engine Nex, rewritten from scratch in Rust, has been running in shadow mode on production traffic for a week. Internal tests show that the p99 order placement latency dropped from 1.55 seconds to 3.76 milliseconds, cancellation latency from 627.92 milliseconds to 3.20 milliseconds; WebSocket write latency (p99) dropped from 44.5 to 88.1 milliseconds to 0.099 milliseconds.

Foresight News reports that MegaETH co-founder Shuyao Kong tweeted that MEGA has completed restructuring over the past few months and is shifting to a new direction. During the restructuring, the team was adjusted, with a 20% reduction in staff. The departing employees had previously been involved in public chain, wallet development, and ecosystem support work. The founders, early employees, and core engineering team will continue to stay at MEGA. Shuyao Kong stated that the team believes crypt

Foresight News reports that Espresso's mainnet has been live for two years, producing approximately 31.7 million blocks to date. Over these two years, Espresso has undergone multiple upgrades, reducing the final transaction confirmation time from about 10 seconds to approximately 400 milliseconds, and increasing data throughput from 30 MB/s to 181 MB/s. Espresso claims this throughput is sufficient to support 1 million stablecoin transactions per second. Espresso states that it was originally d

Foresight News reports, according to US SEC filings, GRAM (formerly TON) treasury company TON Strategy (Nasdaq: TONX) announced its Q3 2026 financial report. As of September 30, the company held 235,126,342 GRAM, with a fair value of $348 million and a cost of $745 million, of which 232,865,523 were staked. In Q3, the company received staking rewards of 9,430,881 GRAM, staking income of $13.07 million, and a total quarterly staking yield of 4.09%. During the same period, the fair value change l

Foresight News reports that according to the WalletConnect blog, it has partnered with identity verification and risk control service provider Socure to combine identity verification and wallet ownership verification into a single credential. Socure is responsible for user identity verification, anti-fraud, and anti-money laundering screening. WalletConnect enables users to sign within self-custody wallets through wallet verification functionality, proving control over the address without transf

Foresight News reports that Michael Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated in an interview with CNBC that the CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over event contracts and will, if necessary, advance related litigation to the Supreme Court, preventing states from suing CFTC-regulated exchanges on grounds of unlicensed gambling operations. Regarding the CFTC's proposed crypto regulatory framework, Michael Selig mentioned that several major crypto exchanges hav

Foresight News reports that ZKsync co-founder Alex Gluchowski posted on the ZK Nation forum stating that the ZK token economic model will be updated. He mentioned that since open source is key to institutional adoption, ZKsync will no longer pursue the enterprise authorization fee portion proposed last year. Alex Gluchowski explained that the original model assumed institutions would use Ethereum as a common settlement layer, with Prividium Ledger deployed as an L2 access point generating inter