Dango Hack

TOTAL LOST $410K
Low Donate Negative Amounts Hack dango

Summarize with AI

Affected Chain dango Incident surface
Recovered - No recovery reported
All-Time Rank #1064 By amount stolen
Auditors 1 Prior security audit

Incident Overview

Mango (MNGO) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2021and operates on the Solana platform. Mango has a current supply of 1,117,466,989.397395. The last known price of Mango is 0.03233705 USD and is down -5.25 over the last 24 hours.

It is currently trading on 36 active market(s) with $1,521.21 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://mango.markets/.

Incident Report

Protocol / Project Dango
Date of Incident
Affected Chain(s) dango
Attack Technique Donate Negative Amounts Hack
Classification Protocol Logic
Primary Source View Post-Mortem

Protocol Information

Protocol Type Bridge Aggregator
Smart Contract Language Solidity
Official Website mango.markets/
Protocol Twitter/X @mangomarkets

Market Context at Time of Hack

Token Categories
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Token DeFi Derivatives DAO DEX Governance Solana Ecosystem Alleged SEC Securities

What the Attacker Needed to Succeed

Understanding the prerequisites for this type of attack helps auditors identify protocols that are most at risk and helps developers build better defenses.

Technical Knowledge Deep understanding of donate negative amounts hack and Solidity and EVM internals
Capital Required Seed capital to cover gas and initial position setup
On-Chain Access Ability to interact with dango smart contracts and deploy a custom exploit contract
Protocol Analysis Identification of the exploitable vulnerability in Dango's contract logic - root cause: protocol logic
Execution Speed Precise transaction ordering and timing to exploit the vulnerability within a single atomic block
Obfuscation Plan A strategy to launder and move stolen funds - typically through mixers, cross-chain bridges, or decentralized DEX swaps to resist tracing

What Auditors Should Check

Could this have been caught in audit? Likely — with a thorough Donate Negative Amounts Hack audit checklist and test coverage
Audited by Audit Report 1 — still lost $410K. Prior audits don't guarantee safety, especially after post-audit code changes.

If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to Dango, these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (April 2026).

  • Verify all logic paths related to Donate Negative Amounts Hack are guarded by proper access controls and input validation
  • Review privileged functions (owner, admin, governance) for potential abuse vectors - centralization risks should be documented and bounded with timelocks or multi-sigs

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Security Audit History

Sources & References

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