Is blockchain really secure? An analysis of attacks on decentralized finance
Summary
This article analyzes security incidents and attack vectors across DeFi ecosystems. It reviews major 2026 losses and breaks down where failures occur across infrastructure, settlement, protocol, application, and aggregation layers. It also highlights common threats such as governance takeovers, phishing, reentrancy exploits, and oracle manipulation. The piece closes with mitigation approaches like audits, bug bounties, monitoring, timelocks, and stronger governance controls.
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