Web3 Daily Exploits — 26 Oct 2026: Quiet Window, No New Scored Drains

The 26 Oct America/Panama window records no first-report protocol incidents used for scoring. Combined live loss on this card is $0. Required monitors including DefimonAlerts, CertiKAlert, Phalcon_xyz, GoPlusSecurity, SlowMist_Team, PeckShieldAlert, BlockSecTeam, Lookonchain, ZachXBT, CyversAlerts, Immunefi, and rekt.news posted no new smart-contract exploits with fresh loss figures in the last 24 hours. Prior items remain on their original briefs and are noted only as updates. No new hashes, loss amounts, or recovery figures are invented.

Also noted

• X100 flash-loan governance capture (UPDATE, not re-scored): The ~$4.85 million USDT drain via Senate majority capture on Ethereum remains on the 25 Oct brief. Multiple independent reconstructions (DefimonAlerts, Phalcon, Bitquery, Chainalysis, The Defiant) converged on the loss. Proceeds observed as approximately 2,022.86 ETH parked across wallets. No material new loss figures or official project post-mortem in this window. DefimonAlerts posted an on-chain recovery coordination message. https://www.rektradar.xyz/web3-daily-exploits-25-oct-2026-x100-4-85m-flash-gov-yape-22k/.
• Yapeswap zero-quorum governance (UPDATE, not re-scored): The ~$21.9 thousand loss via WorkersUnion zero-quorum proposal that transferred feeToSetter and installed a fake Registry remains on the 25 Oct brief. SlowMist first report. No additional independent confirmations or recoveries noted in this window. https://www.rektradar.xyz/web3-daily-exploits-25-oct-2026-x100-4-85m-flash-gov-yape-22k/.
• Initia MoveVM script-caching incident (UPDATE, not re-scored): Official confirmation and details posted 24 Oct. Approximately $2.7 million bridged out after unbacked credit of WETH, iUSD and USDC. L1 and rollups remain halted. PublicAML noted the attacker’s 1,135.52 ETH still parked on one address, with gas funded via Tornado Cash through Osmosis. No material new loss figures used for scoring today. https://www.rektradar.xyz/web3-daily-exploits-24-oct-2026-initia-2-7m-movevm-cache-mint/.
• Unverified contract exploit report on Optimism (not scored): PublicAML listed an unverified report dated 26 Oct 2026 for a contract exploit (VR-EE5D7E02) with a linked transaction on optimistic.etherscan.io. No confirmation from required monitors, no loss figure, and no independent verification at cutoff. Flagged only; not scored. https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x25ed533ae78084e5b0aede8e4f83c39a7bd253447eb93e08fffbae49a0e6010b.
• Defimon on-chain compensation claim message (not an exploit): DefimonAlerts posted a message about claiming unclaimed Curve CRV compensation for an alETH pool LP from the 2023 Vyper exploit. Operational note only; not a new protocol incident.
• Prior items (not re-scored): WAX Multi-Chain Bridge, NEM LP burn, AlpsCon, Slice, and earlier incidents remain as previously briefed. No material new loss figures used for scoring.
• Monitored accounts: DefimonAlerts, CertiKAlert, Phalcon_xyz, GoPlusSecurity, SlowMist_Team, PeckShieldAlert, BlockSecTeam, Lookonchain, ZachXBT, CyversAlerts, Immunefi and rekt.news. No additional first-report protocol exploits with fresh scored loss figures.

Sources and references

• 25 Oct brief for X100 and Yapeswap: https://www.rektradar.xyz/web3-daily-exploits-25-oct-2026-x100-4-85m-flash-gov-yape-22k/
• 24 Oct brief for Initia: https://www.rektradar.xyz/web3-daily-exploits-24-oct-2026-initia-2-7m-movevm-cache-mint/
• DefimonAlerts X100 on-chain message: https://x.com/DefimonAlerts/status/2114100145151217832
• Unverified Optimism report TX: https://optimistic.etherscan.io/tx/0x25ed533ae78084e5b0aede8e4f83c39a7bd253447eb93e08fffbae49a0e6010b
• PublicAML investigations: https://publicaml.org/investigations/
• Monitored accounts checked: DefimonAlerts, CertiKAlert, Phalcon_xyz, GoPlusSecurity, SlowMist_Team, PeckShieldAlert, BlockSecTeam, Lookonchain, ZachXBT, CyversAlerts, Immunefi, rekt.news. No additional first-report protocol exploits with fresh loss figures in the last 24 hours.

Editor’s note: the scored live loss on this card is $0. No new first-report protocol drains with fresh figures were posted by the monitored accounts as of the latest cutoff. Prior-day items including X100, Yapeswap, and Initia remain on their original briefs and are not re-scored. An unverified Optimism contract report is flagged without scoring. No how-to or exploit reproduction steps. Stay tuned or stay rekt.