Q2 2026 Sets All-Time High for DeFi Hack Count With ~70 Exploits, $746M Stolen
Q2 2026 has become the most-hacked quarter in DeFi history by incident count, according to DefiLlama, which logged approximately 70 separate exploits across April, May and the first two weeks of June. The quarterly dolla...
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