TechFlow News, April 3: According to DefiLlama data, in Q1 2026, hackers stole over $168.6 million in cryptocurrency assets from 34 decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols—significantly down from $1.58 billion in the same period of 2025, when the massive loss was primarily driven by the $1.4 billion hack of Bybit.
The largest single attack this quarter was the Step Finance private key leak in January, resulting in approximately $40 million in losses; second was the Truebit smart contract vulnerability exploit on January 8, causing $26.4 million in Ethereum losses; third was the private key theft at stablecoin issuer Resolv Labs on March 21.




