Rekt News is a crypto cybersecurity and DeFi investigative media platform that publishes in-depth coverage of exploits, hacks, and incidents across the digital assets space. Rekt News's Twitter Score is 343 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #796 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Rekt News was founded by Julien Bouteloup, who holds a European trademark registration for the platform. Its editorial focus spans crypto exploit reporting, DeFi incident analysis, cybersecurity intelligence, and AI-related developments. Recent articles have covered incidents involving Secret Network, Aztec, Humanity Protocol, Syscoin, TesseraDao, Gravity Bridge, DxSale, and THORChain, reflecting a broad scope of on-chain and protocol-level events.
Rekt News also maintains a running leaderboard of crypto losses and incidents, cataloguing loss amounts and dates across the industry. The platform accepts community support via a public ETH and ERC20 donation address. Rekt News has published 2,335 posts on the platform and has 483,337 followers as of July 2026. The account has been mentioned by 351 accounts a total of 762 times.
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The accounts that follow Rekt News include 1,511 founders, 398 angel investors, 781 influencers and 31 VCs. Among them are Toly, Ansem, Erik Voorhees, Laura Shin, Threadguy and Stani.