numa. Hack
Incident Overview
UMA (UMA) is a cryptocurrency and operates on the Ethereum platform. UMA has a current supply of 127,838,943.4302642 with 91,412,716.4826194 in circulation. The last known price of UMA is 0.41422902 USD and is down -0.01 over the last 24 hours.
It is currently trading on 316 active market(s) with $4,630,573.49 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://umaproject.org/.
Incident Report
Protocol Information
Market Context at Time of Hack
What the Attacker Needed to Succeed
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What Auditors Should Check
If you're auditing a protocol with similar architecture to numa., these are the critical security checks that could have prevented this incident (August 2025).
- Verify all logic paths related to NumaVault Exploit 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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