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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 6, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
Security roundup: a token burn drained $201,000 from a CrowdRingCircle pool, and post-mortems detail the unbacked mints at Liquid and Nomic
DeFiHackLabs published reproductions of three exploits on BNB Chain and Optimism, while rekt.news analyzed two Bitcoin-linked systems where a software flaw let attackers create unbacked bitcoin tokens, one of them worth $320 million.
DeFiHackLabs, the open-source repository that reproduces on-chain attacks as runnable tests, added proofs of concept for three exploits this week. Rekt.news, meanwhile, carries post-mortems on the two Bitcoin-linked incidents of September.…
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