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When Audits Fail: Inside the Balancer and Yearn Exploits of 2025 - Part 1

Balancer had eleven audits. It still lost $128 million in 30 minutes. From rounding errors to infinite mints, the exploits of 2025 prove that code review alone cannot protect deposited capital and reveal what layered security actually requires.

1.2 Billion Gone: The Bridge Hacks That Exposed Cross-Chain Finance's Fatal Flaws - Part 2

Four bridge hacks. Four different attack methods. One shared flaw: maintaining asset representations across multiple chains creates exploitable accounting gaps. This article examines the Ronin, Wormhole, Nomad, and Harmony exploits and the structural fragility they exposed.

The DeFi Death Spiral: Understanding the Business Model Failures Behind Crypto's Biggest Collapses - Part 3

Terra, Celsius, and Stream Finance collapsed through the same playbook: unsustainable yields, circular collateral, and opaque management. This article dissects the business model failures behind $60 billion in losses and provides a 7-step framework for spotting the next collapse before it happens.

Built to Thrive: Designing Vault Infrastructure Around DeFi's Documented Failures - Part 4

After documenting how $60 billion was lost, this final article asks what resilient DeFi infrastructure actually looks like, examining canonical accounting, regulated strategy partners, and the architectural distinction between risks that produce overnight catastrophe and risks that can be managed.

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