# Bridge Losses Keep Coming From Systems That Worked Exactly as Specified

Rekt News case files on Ostium, AFX Trade and VerusCoin describe roughly $55 million lost through compromised validator signatures and a bridge import path, not through broken contract code.

- Published: 2026-08-13T05:53:29.271Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-13/bridge-losses-keep-coming-from-systems-that-worked-exactly-a
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/), [Crypto Times](https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/07/26/crypto-loses-over-47m-in-a-week-as-afx-trade-wanchain-verus-get-hacked/), [Live Bitcoin News](https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/crypto-bridge-attack-spree-31m-stolen-from-afx-and-veruscoin/)

The recent case files published by Rekt News share a root cause that audits scoped to on-chain code do not cover. AFX Trade, a derivatives venue on Arbitrum, lost $24.15 million in USDC when an attacker obtained five hot-validator signature…

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