Nika
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Nika
@nikaashib
Protocol engineer in Web3 ⚙️ Built DEX, AMMs & infra on Shibarium • Cross-chain • Tokenomics • Liquidity

sad state of the world rn with all the hacks. idk if hackers evolved their game with claude/gpt at this point, but a total of $700m+ have been stolen so far just in 2026. a small list: - Kelp DAO: $293M (largest of 2026, April 19) - Vercel breach (April 19): ShinyHunters selling data for $2M on BreachForums: source code, GitHub tokens, NPM tokens, API keys, 580 employee records, internal Linear + user management. crypto projects might be affected. - Drift Protocol (Solana): $285M (2nd largest Solana hack ever, DPRK linked, April 1) - Hyperbridge: $2.5M (revised from $237K, MMR proof bug, 1B fake DOT minted) - Grinex: $13.7M USDT - Flash loan BSC pool: $1.6M - CoW Swap: $1.2M (domain hijack, April 14) - Dango bridge: $410K (contract bug) - Silo Finance: $392K (oracle misconfig, April 3) - Resolv Labs $USR: $25M (AWS KMS, 80M infinite mint, contagion into Morpho / Euler / Fluid) - Sillytuna: $24M - some Kraken whale: $18M (social engineering) - Prisma Finance: $11M (borrowing bug, partial white hat return) - NFPrompt: $3M (compromised credentials) - YieldBlox (Stellar): $10M (oracle manipulation, $7.2M frozen) - IoTeX ioTube bridge: $8.8M (private key leak) - CrossCurve: $3M (contract bug) - FOOM Cash: $2.3M (crypto verification bug, $1.8m recovered) - Moonwell: $1.8M (malicious MIP-X43 proposal, Feb 15) - Trezor phishing victim (1 person): $284M - Step Finance (Solana): $30M - Truebit: $26.4M (integer overflow) - SwapNet: $13.3M (approval hygiene) - CrossCurve: $3M





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I've been in crypto for over 10 years and I’ve Never been hacked. Perfect OpSec record. Yesterday, my wallet was drained by a malicious @cursor_ai extension for the first time. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you. Here’s a full breakdown. 🧵👇

Anyone can build anything on Shibarium—every developer starts on equal footing. But when @ShytoshiKusama and @shibtoken endorse and heavily promote one project, while other Shibarium projects don’t get the same level of spotlight, that’s a problem in itself. They’re prioritizing their own projects over the broader Shibarium ecosystem. That’s already an uneven playing field. I’m not here to attack anyone, but when they add unfair mechanics—like accepting only ETH and SOL for payments— to an already unbalanced game, I have to push back. If I don’t speak out, my only other option is to walk away from the game entirely.












