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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 30, 2026Published at 2:00 AM EDT · New York
A wave of exploit write-ups points at privileged paths that worked exactly as specified
Abandoned governance contracts, a manipulated oracle on Starknet and stolen cloud credentials at SingularityNET produced losses that no smart-contract audit of the affected code would have flagged.
DeFiHackLabs published reproducible proofs of concept this week for three incidents, and two of them are governance captures rather than code bugs. In the StrongBlock case, an attacker bought roughly 200,984 STRNGR on a Uniswap V2 pair for…
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Losses Move to Components That Worked as Designed
A growing share of DeFi losses will come not from buggy contract code but from components behaving exactly as specified — oracle forwarders, validator signature sets, governance votes and other trusted off-contract inputs — so audits and bug bounties scoped to on-chain code keep missing the failure surface, and protocols will be repeatedly forced to extend review, scope and monitoring to their privileged operational infrastructure.
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