Dragonfly Partner: DeFi's “Hackends of the Sun” did not materialize, and the amount stolen in 2026 was about $1.89 billion a year. Dollar

On 14 July, Dragonfly Partner Haseeb responded to a previous pessimistic view of DeFi security by Manuel Aráoz, co-founder of OpenZeppelin, arguing that DeFi did not appear as the intended “end of the hacker” as the GLM 5.2, Fable and GPT 5.6 models were online and actually used by the attackers. The graph data show that the annualized value of DeFi stolen in 2026 at the current year's rate of data and operations was approximately $1.89 billion, with the cumulative amount stolen during the year being approximately $986 million, below 2025 levels and still within historical boundaries. According to Haseeb, the more profound change at the moment is that the number of hacker attacks has increased, but the scale of single attacks has decreased more rapidly, with more of the attackers targeting small agreements and abandoned projects, while larger agreements have been strengthened with more security, so that overall financial security has not significantly deteriorated。