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Terra Classic
$40.00B
Most Expensive Crypto Hacks Leaderboard
The biggest Web3 and DeFi exploits ranked by amount lost. Track high-impact incidents, study attack patterns, and learn how security failures scale into multi-million dollar losses.
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$101B+
Total Value Lost
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3299
Incidents Tracked
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74
Chains Affected
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80
$100M+ Incidents
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Showing 1251–1300 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 1251 | PAULY | $224K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1252 | Ledger | $224K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1253 | Diamond DND | $223K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1254 | Ethereum alarm clock | $219K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1255 | Tetris Finance | $218K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1256 | Cubic Finance | $217K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1257 | NFTflow | $216K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1258 | JUICE | $216K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1259 | CIRCLE (fake) | $216K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1260 | Hypr Network | $215K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1261 | MMFinance | $215K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1262 | Brand New Quest Metaverse | $214K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1263 | Bep Finance | $212K | binance | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1264 | Linear Finance | $212K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1265 | dYdX | $211K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1266 | Santa Coin | $211K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1267 | Convergence | $210K | ethereum | Missing Input Validation / Other | — | View → | |
| 1268 | Swello Finance | $210K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1269 | Renegade | $209K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1270 | Celestia | $209K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1271 | Elastic Staking | $209K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1272 | Sifchain Finance | $208K | ethereum | Honeypot | — | — | |
| 1273 | DeFi WZ Token | $208K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1274 | ArchWay Fake | $207K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1275 | WUSD.fi | $207K | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 1276 | Elon Pepe | $206K | - | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 1277 | Rare Bears | $206K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1278 | stoicDAO | $205K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1279 | ArenaPlayAPC | $204K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1280 | MaximusDAO | $204K | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 1281 | Santa DAO | $204K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1282 | Bare Bear | $202K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1283 | Automated Assassins | $202K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1284 | Bitmit | $202K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1285 | zkSync Copycat | $202K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1286 | USPD | $200K | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1287 | Peapods Finance | $200K | ethereum | Oracle manipulation in user-created Pods / Other | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1288 | Unilend V2 | $200K | ethereum | Redeem Process Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 1289 | Spectral Labs | $200K | ethereum | Bonding Curve Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 1290 | zkFinance | $200K | zksync era | Oracle Misconfiguration Exploit | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 1291 | Time | $200K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1292 | Keep3r Network | $200K | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Vanity Address) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 1293 | Hex Trust Token | $200K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1294 | Doglands | $200K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1295 | Quixotic | $200K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1296 | Pinecone Finance | $200K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1297 | DAFI Protocol | $200K | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 1298 | Not Found | $200K | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1299 | DistX | $198K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 1300 | SNOOKER | $198K | - | Other | — | View → |
Data sourced from DefiLlama & SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs . Thank you for keeping Web3 security data open.
Context
Understanding the Pattern Behind Billion-Dollar Losses
The most expensive crypto hacks are not random. They cluster around repeating vulnerability patterns: access-control failures, flash-loan manipulation, oracle abuse, and unsafe external calls. Studying large-loss incidents helps security researchers prioritize high-impact threat models first.
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How is this leaderboard ranked?
Incidents are ranked by parsed USD amount lost in descending order. Records without parseable loss values are excluded from this ranking.
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