Key Takeaways:
Peckshield tracked 8 bridge exploits through mid-May 2026, with $328.6M drained cumulatively from cross-chain protocols. KelpDAO’s $300M Layerzero breach and Drift’s $200M+ attack made April 2026 the worst-hacked month on record, per Defillama. Total 2026 hack losses surpassed $750M through mid-April; May’s Verus bridge drain adds $11.5M more.Transit Finance, a cross-chain aggregation protocol, was drained of $1.88 million on May 13 and most recently, the Verus-Ethereum bridge lost approximately $11.5 million, with the attacker’s wallet traced to a Tornado Cash seed.
