#DeFi Security

Developers are pushing a critical protocol update to mandate full transaction transparency, eliminating the "Blind Signing" loophole that allows malicious payloads to bypass user inspection and cause catastrophic fund losses.

The Ink Finance exploit, while limited in scope, serves as a critical case study demonstrating that smart contract flaws, coupled with increasingly sophisticated state-level threat actors, pose a systemic risk to even heavily audited Layer-2 DeFi protocols like those operating on Polygon.

Following a major $292 million exploit targeting KelpDAO, high-value protocols are rapidly migrating their infrastructure to Chainlink CCIP, signaling a massive industry shift toward standardized, institutionally secured cross-chain communication.