Weekly Safety Intelligence
A structured weekly briefing that answers five fixed questions: threats, losses, scams, the operations that matter this week, and what to watch next.
8 articles
2026-10-12Wallet Safety Intelligence Briefing — Week of October 5–11, 2026The week of October 5–11, 2026 in five fixed questions: how much was lost (about $4.58M confirmed, plus $72M–$94.5M estimated), the pattern (the supply chain became the attack surface), what enforcement did (a stablecoin deadline, a commodities proposal, a mixer retreat, a live prosecution), the one operational change worth making, and what the calendar holds next.2026-10-05Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 28–October 4, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 28–October 4, 2026, answered: a week in which losses collapsed to ~$9.6M, a full recovery landed inside 24 hours, a $1.4B defensive withdrawal contained an infrastructure breach to 0.36 ETH, and the regulator's custody proposal read like the incident ledger converted into rule text.2026-09-28Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 21–27, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 21–27, 2026, answered: a week in which $412.3M left wallets and exchanges through systems that authorized correctly, a $20,199 governance vote took over two protocols, the costliest month of 2026 closed, and the effective defense shifted from key hygiene to the trust boundary itself.2026-09-21Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 14–20, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 14–20, 2026, answered: a week in which $20.9M left wallets through valid signatures, an app wallet's signing flaw swept 1,552 XRP Ledger wallets, seven agencies named the recruiters stealing seed phrases, and the effective defense moved from protocol audits to key and module hygiene.2026-09-14Weekly Safety Intelligence — Week of September 7–13, 2026Our five standing intelligence questions for September 7–13, 2026, answered: a week shaped by three bitcoin-wrapper unbackings in five weeks, the return of 3,400 BTC to Liquid, a $24B laundering marketplace taken apart by enforcement, and a baseline of roughly $2M per week in confirmed direct losses.2026-09-07Wallet Safety Intelligence — Week of August 31 – September 6, 2026The five fixed questions for the week of August 31 – September 6, 2026: risk migrating to the layers around the key, a $320M settlement-layer withdrawal, social engineering that borrows trusted identities, the operations that matter now, and what to watch in September.2026-08-31Wallet Safety Intelligence — Week of August 24–30, 2026The five fixed questions for the week of August 24–30, 2026: an entropy-themed threat shift, ~$8M in tracked losses, the industrialization of scams made nameable, the operations that matter now, and what to watch in September.2026-08-24Wallet Safety Intelligence — Week of August 17–23, 2026The five fixed questions for the week of August 17–23, 2026: threat posture, realized losses, new scam mechanics, the operations that matter now, and what to watch next week.