Blur shuts down its Blast blockchain
Blast, the Ethereum layer-2 created by the team behind the Blur NFT marketplace, is shutting down less than three years after launch. In the announcement, they disclosed that its costs now exceed its revenue and that it sees "no credible path" to fixing that. Despite once boasting of more than $2 billion in total value locked in June 2024, generating revenue from network usage of around $3.5 million, that revenue has collapsed to less than $2,000 last month.
Porsche shuts down its NFT project with the floor price down 96%
When Porsche announced its Porsche 911 NFT project at Art Basel Miami in 2022, it promised holders "he opportunity to co-create Porsche's future in the Web3 universe". Turns out there wasn't much to that future.
After bungling the mint, selling fewer than 2,000 of the planned 7,500 NFTs after buyers balked at the 0.911 ETH (then $1,490) pricetag, the price went nearly exclusively downhill. Now, with the NFTs floundering with floor prices down 96% from launch, Porsche has announced it is ending its "shared adventure".
Near Intents exploited for $3.8 million, recovers all assets
Near Intents, a cross-chain swap service, halted operations after an attacker drained around $3.8 million by exploiting a bug in its Omni layer.
The next day, Near Intents posted addresses for returning the funds and threatened the attacker: "We have identified you, sir." The attacker returned everything the next day, in a transaction that included an on-chain message saying "We've returned all the funds, we were in the wrong". Near Intents confirmed the funds were returned, and said they were stopping their investigation.
Abracadabra proposes winding down after string of hacks years ago left each $1 "stablecoin" token backed by $0.04 in reserves
Abracadabra, the defi project behind the Magic Internet Money (MIM) stablecoin, is shutting down. It blamed its string of hacks: $6.5 million theft in January 2024, $13 million in March 2025, and $1.8 million in October 2025, which altogether left about $21 million in bad debt. According to the shutdown proposal, 22 million MIM are in circulation, backed by just $900,000 in "actionable backing" which puts the supposedly dollar-pegged token at about $0.04. Two wallets voted on the proposal.
In June, a similarly low-participation vote handed "stewardship" of the project to a different group which promised to "revitalize" Abracadabra. Days later, treasury wallets sold around $500,000 worth of MIM. In July, the project tweeted that a roadmap to restore the peg was "coming this week," then never posted again. A week after that tweet, Abracadabra-controlled wallets moved about $8.3 million in treasury assets with no explanation, some of it to a Binance deposit address, in what one commentator called "treasury looting". The wind-down proposal doesn't mention the $8.3 million or count it toward what MIM holders could redeem.
Magic Eden users lose NFTs and $1.8 million in wETH to legacy approvals exploit
Exploiters took advantage of a legacy approvals bug in an old payment processor called Limit Break, which the platform had stopped using in late 2024. The bug affected listings on Magic Eden's EVM marketplace, which the company had shut down earlier this year. The attackers were able to steal numerous NFTs, including 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 World of Women, and 235 Desperate Apewives. Attackers also subsequently stole 660 wETH (~$1.78 million).
A whitehat rescue spearheaded by blockchain researcher 0xQuit took control of 23,155 NFTs he estimated to be worth "north of $5.7M USD", which he said would be returned to their owners after they revoked the permissions that made the assets vulnerable to theft.
Meter token prices crash after unauthorized mint
An exploiter was able to mint unbacked wrapped MTR and MTRG tokens, notionally priced at more than $2.3 million. They sold some of the tokens on a decentralized exchange, crashing the MTRG price by more than 88%. The price of the project's MTR token — which is supposed to maintain a stable price based on the cost to produce 10 kWh of electricity — also plummeted by approximately the same percentage. Meter has attributed the exploit to a "block validation flaw".
Meter paused the blockchain and bridge, and has urged people not to trade the token. They have warned that "Transactions after block 100731417 may not be honored", suggesting they are considering a blockchain rollback.
Meter suffered another bridge attack in February 2022, which amounted to $4.3 million.
Payy Network bridge fully drained of $1.8 million
The Payy Network, a stablecoin infrastructure company, disclosed that a bridge contract had been fully drained of funds, netting attackers $1.8 million. They later stated that the theft was "NOT a compromised key, social engineering or exploit of our off-chain infrastructure," but has not disclosed what it was. They also announced that the stolen funds were "users' non-custodial deposits to Payy Network / Payy Wallet", which is somewhat of an oxymoron.
Payy Network has halted all activity following the attack.
Duelbits crypto casino goes offline after $7 million theft
The Duelbits crypto gambling site lost around $7 million to an apparent hot wallet compromise. The site went offline shortly after the attack, and the company has said the site will stay offline "until we have clarity". The Curaçao-based platform offers casino games and sportsbetting.
Bitget crypto exchange hacked for $388 million, pauses withdrawals
Attackers stole $387.5 million in crypto assets from Bitget, a cryptocurrency exchange originally founded in Singapore and headquartered out of the Seychelles. Centralized stablecoin issuers Circle and Tether (issuers of USDC and USDT) froze $318,000 in stolen assets, but the vast majority were swapped to decentralized cryptocurrencies and have not been frozen.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen has said the company believes that a North Korean cybercrime group may be behind the theft. Bitget halted withdrawals shortly after the theft was noticed, citing the need to prevent attackers from stealing more assets. Bitget has said they have sufficient assets to cover the stolen funds.
Projects on the defunct Neutron chain lose $1.8 million to governance attack, Cosmos Hub halts chain
Neutron, a blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem that entered maintenance mode in June, suffered a governance attack when someone spent $20,200 to acquire enough NTRN governance tokens to pass a vote allowing them to take control of the Neutron-based Astroport and Drop applications, whose contracts contained a combined $9.5 million in assets.
Neutron was paused shortly after the attack, and validators subsequently paused the entire Cosmos Hub network. Together, the pauses prevented the attacker from cashing out the entire amount, though they successfully made off with $1.8 million that they were able to bridge to Ethereum prior to the pause. Cosmos Hub remained paused for approximately 24 hours. During the pause, validators coordinated to move approximately 1.73 million ATOM from the attacker's wallet to a multi-signature wallet controlled by a group of companies operating network validators.