# Bridge Keys and Payment Wallets Drive the Summer's Confirmed Crypto Losses

Coinsbuy lost about $7.9 million across Ethereum and Tron with proceeds laundered through Monero, weeks after validator-key compromise drained $24.15 million from AFX Trade and a repeat bridge exploit took $7.54 million from Verus.

- Published: 2026-08-17T05:44:33.122Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-17/bridge-keys-and-payment-wallets-drive-the-summer-s-confirmed
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Rekt News (Coinsbuy)](https://www.rekt.news/), [Rekt News (AFX Trade)](https://www.rekt.news/), [Rekt News (VerusCoin)](https://www.rekt.news/), [Rekt News (Wrong Attack Surface)](https://www.rekt.news/)

Three incidents tracked by Rekt define the current loss pattern, and none of them depended on a novel contract bug. Coinsbuy, a crypto payment processor, saw wallets linked to its service drained of more than $7.9 million on 9 August. The w…

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