Anatomy of a bridge hack: why crypto's largest losses keep coming from cross-chain
Four bridge failure modes — signer compromise, message-verification bugs, mint/burn breaks, and trusted-root errors — illustrated with the biggest losses.
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Guides
Patterns, post-mortems and operational lessons drawn from the full Blockchain Breaches archive.
How DeFi exploits work: a field guide to a decade of losses
How DeFi gets broken — reentrancy, oracle manipulation, flash loans, governance attacks and key compromise. A field guide built from real incidents.
Why crypto exchanges fail: a decade of breach patterns from Mt. Gox to Bybit
From Mt. Gox to Bybit, exchanges fail in four ways: hot-wallet theft, custody-key compromise, internal fraud, and signing-UI attacks. The pattern over a decade.