Drift's DFX recovery token opened at about 0.0104 USDT per dollar lost in the $295.4 million April exploit, roughly one cent on the dollar. Paying every capped pledge in full would lift that to about 50 cents, and the other half depends on Velocity's revenue and on funds recovered from the attacker.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 19%
- Operator
- Operator 42%
- Investor
- Investor 39%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence65
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen expects to recover little of the $388 million stolen from the exchange, citing Bybit's 3.5% freeze rate. On that benchmark about $13.6 million is frozen within a year and roughly $374 million stays with whoever carries the loss.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence50
One Bitget breach supplied half of September's record $766 million in crypto hack losses
Crypto hacks drained $766.49 million in September, a 2026 monthly record, and $387.5 million came from one breach of Bitget's hot wallets. After the money returned from the Liquid Network exploit, that one exchange accounts for about 80% of what stayed stolen.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence50
Seven agencies price North Korea's fake-recruiter funnel at $1,530 a wallet
Japan, the US, Australia and Germany put eight months of North Korea's developer-targeting campaign at $10.71 million taken from more than 7,000 wallets. CertiK counted $2.06 billion of North Korea-linked crypto theft in 2025 alone.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives45
- Confidence62
Connecticut warns of DeFi risks after $200,000 loss, naming seven offshore platforms as examples
Tong and Perez name GMX, dYdX, Hyperliquid and four others in their September 3 alert while stating that no one says the resident used any of them, leaving Connecticut with a citable list untethered to the case that prompted it.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives62
- Confidence55