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Morning Edition · Friday, October 16, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York
New Exploit Reproductions Show a Uniswap v4 Hook and a Token-Vesting Pool Drained Through Price and Accounting Flaws
The KolanHook drain combined an unguarded function with settlement at a manipulable spot price, and the UNCX case depended on share accounting in a shared vesting pool. The NEAR Intents and Bitget incidents set the scale for recent losses.
DeFiHackLabs, the open repository that rebuilds real exploits as runnable proofs of concept, added two new decentralized finance (DeFi) incidents over the past day. A merge commit brought its catalogue to 894 entries. The commit titles in t…
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Bridge and Mint Exploits Sustain Heavy DeFi Losses
Over 3-6 months, recurring bridge proof-validation and unauthorized-mint exploits keep monthly DeFi losses elevated, including drains of deprecated contracts.
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