BlockThreat - Week 7, 2026
Are audits and bug bounties just an outdated tax in the age of AI? DPRK hopes you think so. A look back at what actually improved in crypto security over the past five years and what comes next.
Another week of relatively low losses with only $657K stolen across 5 incidents. The majority of losses came from two very similar exploits on BSC chain where someone is clearly hunting deflationary sell bugs to manipulate oracles in vulnerable pools.
It’s during low impact weeks like this that crypto starts to feel almost… safe. Maybe your latest AI tooling just found all the bugs. Maybe audits are an outdated tax that only slows down “experimentation.” After all, why pay five figures to have someone tell you what you already suspect, especially when half the industry is openly complaining that audit prices are “insane” and holding launches hostage?