Hacken Report: Institutional investors are more concerned with ongoing surveillance and incident response

In its security and compliance report for the second quarter of 2026, Hacken indicated that institutional investors were no longer relying solely on smart contract audits, but were focusing more on ongoing surveillance, signatory control and incident response capacity. Of the 1,427 projects tracked by Hacken, only 9 per cent had third-party monitoring and 4 per cent had monitoring, leakage payments and security audits. The report indicates that 88.3 per cent of the approximately $764 million in stolen funds in the second quarter was related to the destruction of private keys, signatories and infrastructure. The report states that 14 of the targeted projects were previously audited, but most of the losses were outside the scope of the traditional smart contract audit。