Morning Edition · Monday, August 10, 2026Published at 1:51 AM EDT · New York

Rekt's Half-Year Review Puts DeFi Losses at $939.86 Million and Locates the Failures in Signers, Not Contract Code

Across 135 incidents verified by Rekt, the largest drains ran through validator signatures, oracle verifiers and governance votes that behaved exactly as designed.

The exploit tracker rekt.news counts 135 verified decentralized finance hacks and $939.86 million lost in the first half of 2026, and its own summary of the period argues that the biggest losses passed their audits. The attack surface was t…