# NEAR Intents' $3.8 million custody exploit leads a week of smaller vault and accounting bugs and an $800,000 knife robbery in the United Kingdom

DeFiHackLabs added proof-of-concept code for exploits at BitBay, X7 Finance and The Red Village, bringing its catalogue to 892 incidents, and most of the funds stolen from NEAR Intents were returned.

- Published: 2026-10-14T05:36:59.411Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-10-14/near-intents-3-8-million-custody-exploit-leads-a-week-of-sma
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/625c8c4f23048924066d81a8e2e8175e110d8bc7), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/ba196dc910adc016f1715e107a52b3c91c0f6ea2), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/3916cbfe80b5ae2bc34e0ca307bacb0cadc11e1e), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/8a10d710ce71be43cc09380da3f18f139a6e3e52), [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/10/13/why-self-custody-and-hardware-wallets-cannot-prevent-physical-crypto-extortion), [Crypto Times](https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/10/09/slowmist-flags-bitbay-and-ethervista-hacks-as-attackers-drain-32600-from-defi-vault-pool/), [CryptoTicker](https://cryptoticker.io/en/near-intents-exploit-withdrawals-halted/)

The largest on-chain incident in this week's records is NEAR Intents, the cross-chain swap protocol, which Rekt News has now written up. The team confirmed a $3.8 million loss and blamed a bug in how the NEAR Intents contract interacted wit…

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