SmartAlert blog
Product news, setup guides and incident write-ups: what happened on chain, how it looked in alerts and which rule would have caught it.
- Incidents
DxSale hack, May 2026: the lockers changed owner 45 hours before the drain
How the May 2026 DxSale locker hack unfolded on BNB Chain: three lockers transferred to a new owner, then 45 hours of silence, then liquidity drained from over 1,400 pools. When an OwnershipTransferred alert would have fired.
SmartAlert - Guides
How to set up smart contract monitoring in 5 minutes
A step-by-step guide to alerts for a contract on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base or Arbitrum: add the address, turn on the first six rules, check them on 30 days of history and get alerts in Telegram.
SmartAlert - Incidents
Wasabi Protocol hack, April 2026: an admin role granted 108 seconds before the vaults emptied
How the April 2026 Wasabi Protocol hack unfolded on Ethereum and Base: a deployer key granted ADMIN_ROLE, upgraded the proxies and drained the vaults within 28 minutes. When a RoleGranted alert would have fired, and what it could still save.
SmartAlert - News
SmartAlert: alerts for your smart contracts, set up from an address
What SmartAlert is, what it watches on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base and Arbitrum, how the hourly norm and the 30-day history check keep alerts quiet, and what it does not do.
SmartAlert - Incidents
IoTeX ioTube, February 2026: an ownership signal 14 minutes before the first withdrawal
How the ioTube bridge works, the attack transaction by transaction, the three places a SmartAlert rule would have fired, the places no rule would have helped, and how to set up the same rules on your contracts.
SmartAlert - Incidents
Orbit Bridge hack, December 2023: $81.5M left the vault in five withdrawals over 17 minutes
How the December 2023 Orbit Bridge hack unfolded: $81.5M in five withdrawals, when a $ alert would have fired, and how much was still in the vault.
SmartAlert - News
400 public contract pages, and a blog about real incidents
SmartAlert now keeps public pages for 400 active contracts on Ethereum and BNB Chain. What a page shows, what it never shows, how a team claims its contract's page with one signature, and why we start a blog that times real incidents minute by minute.
SmartAlert - Incidents
Ronin Bridge hack, August 2024: the vote threshold was 0 for 48 minutes before the first withdrawal, and no event said so
How the August 2024 Ronin bridge hack happened: an upgrade set the vote threshold to 0, the exploit step by step, and the alert that fires 45 minutes early.
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