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Just hurry up and build DeFi On Cardano! $ADA 🤣 Top 5 DeFi Exploits According to Grok in just the last couple of months — • Kelp DAO (rsETH bridge exploit) — ~$293 million on Ethereum (via LayerZero-powered cross-chain bridge). An attacker forged a cross-chain message to drain roughly 116,500 rsETH (about 18% of supply) from the bridge contract, triggering widespread pauses in lending protocols like Aave. • Drift Protocol — ~$285 million on Solana. The leading perpetuals DEX on Solana was rapidly drained through compromised admin/infrastructure access combined with price manipulation tactics, marking one of the fastest major DeFi exploits on record. • Resolv Labs (USR stablecoin minting exploit) — ~$23– 25 million (with up to ~$34 million economic impact) on Ethereum. A compromised off-chain private key allowed the minting of ~80 million unbacked USR stablecoins for minimal collateral, which the attacker dumped to extract value before the protocol paused and partially burned tokens. • Solv Protocol (BRO vault exploit) — ~$2.7 million on Ethereum. A reentrancy vulnerability in the Bitcoin Reserve Offering (BRO) vault enabled double-minting of tokens (looped 22 times), allowing the attacker to inflate supply massively and swap out ~38 SolvBTC for ETH. Venus Protocol (Thena/THE market manipulation) — ~$2–3.7 million in extracted value/bad debt on BNB Chain. An attacker who accumulated a large THE position over months used a supply-cap bypass (donation exploit) and price manipulation to borrow assets, ultimately leaving the lending protocol with over $2 million in unrepayable bad debt.

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