{"id":633683,"date":"2026-07-23T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=833126"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:30:45","slug":"the-763-9-million-shift-why-smart-contract-audits-couldnt-stop-web3s-worst-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/the-763-9-million-shift-why-smart-contract-audits-couldnt-stop-web3s-worst-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"The $763.9 Million Shift: Why Smart Contract Audits Couldn\u2019t Stop Web3\u2019s Worst Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/audit-768x512.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Audit image\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Threat actors stole $763.9 million across 67 incidents in Q2 2026, making it the most severe period for Web3 security since Q2 2025. Breaches in audited protocols highlighted an industry misconception: treating a point-in-time code audit as a complete security seal. Q2 2026 Security Breakdown The second quarter of 2026 was the most severe period [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors stole $763.9 million across 67 incidents in Q2 2026, making it the most severe period for Web3 security since Q2 2025. Breaches in audited protocols highlighted an industry misconception: treating a point-in-time code audit as a complete security seal. Q2 2026 Security Breakdown The second quarter of 2026 was the most severe period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-633683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}