Morning Edition · Saturday, October 24, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York

Security Roundup: Slice Module on Base Loses $41,000 to Fake Payout Contracts as NEAR Intents Closes Its $3.8 Million Case

Most of this month's incidents came from contracts trusting inputs they never checked, including a whitelist breach that drained $6 million in wrapped staked ether from a Base vault.

Slice (Base, about $41,000). A FundsModule contract linked to Slice, an on-chain commerce protocol on Base, lost about 8.72 ETH and 19,820 USDC on Oct. 20 and 21. The root cause was input validation. A permissionless function accepted a cal…