Crypto exploits and scams led to about $68.3 million in losses across 60 confirmed incidents in May 2026, with $9.38 million later returned. Verus and Thorchain were the largest single events at $11.52 million and $10.12 million, while phishing contributed roughly $2.6 million. Code vulnerabilities dominated the breakdown at $45.13 million, followed by wallet compromises at $13.77 million.

Crypto investment funds logged $1.07 billion in net outflows for the week ending May 16, snapping a seven-week streak of positive weekly flows. Bitcoin products accounted for $981.5 million of withdrawals and Ethereum funds saw $249.3 million leave, while XRP and Solana attracted $67.6 million and $55.1 million in inflows. Total assets under management slipped to $157 billion from $159 billion a week earlier.

Digital asset investment products posted $173 million in net outflows for the week ending February 13, 2026, the fourth straight weekly decline. The US shed $403.2 million while Europe and Canada added $230 million; Bitcoin and Ethereum saw $133.3 million and $85.1 million withdrawn as XRP and Solana attracted $33.4 million and $31 million in inflows.

Crypto investment products saw $2.17 billion of net inflows in the week ending January 16, 2026, which CoinShares data shows is the largest weekly figure since October 10, 2025. Bitcoin led with $1.55 billion of new capital, while Ethereum and Solana together drew $541.5 million, and US-based products dominated regionally with $2.05 billion in inflows.

CoinGecko reported 11.6 million cryptocurrency tokens failed in 2025, representing 86.3% of all failures since 2021. Q4 2025 alone saw 7.7 million collapses after the October 10 deleveraging wiped out $19 billion in leveraged positions. Overall, 53.2% of GeckoTerminal listings have gone defunct across the period, with meme coins bearing most of the damage.

Former Zcash developers announced the cashZ wallet on January 8, 2026, a day after the entire Electric Coin Company team resigned. Built on the Zashi codebase, the wallet is slated to launch in a few weeks with easy migration for Zashi users. The group said it remains focused on Zcash development and is not introducing a new coin.

On January 8, 2026, Changpeng Zhao stated that his upcoming memoir's Chinese edition may be titled "币安人生" but stressed it has no link to the Binance Life meme coin. He added that he does not hold the Binance Life token and has no plans to buy it, and that the English version will use a different title. The Binance Life token, launched in October 2025 on BNB Smart Chain, briefly reached a market cap above $500 million before crashing after clarifications that his posts were not endorsements.

On January 6, 2026, Flow released a post‑incident report explaining how a $3.9 million exploit was carried out through a type confusion vulnerability in the Cadence runtime that enabled counterfeit FLOW token creation. The attacker began executing about 40 malicious contracts on December 26, 2025, and network validators halted the chain less than six hours after the initial malicious transaction. Flow stated that existing user balances were not accessed, while exchanges received 1.094 billion fake FLOW and later returned 484,434,923 tokens for destruction, with most of the remaining supply isolated onchain.

In 2025, blockchain investigator ZachXBT identified a Canadian actor known as Haby/Havard who allegedly impersonated Coinbase support and siphoned more than $2 million in crypto via social‑engineering phone calls. He tied on‑chain activity to social media posts, including a Dec. 30, 2024 XRP theft and a Feb. 2025 Bitcoin wallet screenshot showing $237,000, linking multiple victim cases.