Morning Edition · Monday, September 14, 2026Published at 1:49 AM EDT · New York

Audited DeFi Protocols Lost $885 Million to Attack Paths Their Audits Never Covered

Of 68 first-half incidents with a public pre-incident audit, researchers classified 46 attack paths as entirely outside the reviewed scope, accounting for 94.4% of losses in that group.

A preprint affiliated with the review firm ack3 examined 135 reported decentralized-finance incidents in the first half of 2026, totaling about $939.86 million in losses, and found public pre-incident audits for 68 of them. Within that audi…