Wormhole

Midnight’s NIGHT token recovered after a sharp selloff tied to a Wanchain bridge exploit that drained a large amount of tokens. Charles Hoskinson framed the incident as evidence that crypto needs stronger zero knowledge based infrastructure rather than continued dependence on legacy bridge models.

Ethical hackers found a critical Aptos flaw that was patched before user funds were affected. Their testing suggested a low-cost attack path could have threatened stablecoins, bridges, DeFi protocols and other crypto infrastructure.