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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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3300
Incidents Tracked
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74
Chains Affected
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80
$100M+ Incidents
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Showing 2001–2050 of 3300 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 2001 | Gh1z.finance | $2K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2002 | Sauron | $2K | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2003 | Keep3rX.finance | $2K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2004 | Mother of All Ponzis | $1K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2005 | L4CK | $1K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 2006 | Bloody Finance | $1K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2007 | Ba5ic finance | $1K | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2008 | Horus Finance | $991 | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2009 | Maxliq.ml | $898 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2010 | Farmland Network | $892 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2011 | MetaMoonMars | $866 | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2012 | Sonic Swap | $824 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2013 | AutobotDefi | $797 | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2014 | Trump Swap | $795 | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2015 | Enjo | $762 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2016 | CAP5 | $760 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 2017 | Gaia protocol | $598 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2018 | Potatos Finance | $569 | binance | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2019 | Waronrug degen token | $555 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 2020 | DAOstreetbets | $548 | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2021 | SAILSAN | $426 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 2022 | GoldenFarm | $396 | binance | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 2023 | BOMBHEAD token | $342 | ethereum | Honeypot | — | — | |
| 2024 | Dswap | $330 | ethereum | Rugpull | — | — | |
| 2025 | Jin Finance | $277 | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2026 | Syscoin | — | - | - | — | View → | |
| 2027 | Neutrl | — | ethereum | DNS Hijacking Attack | — | View → | |
| 2028 | DGLD | — | base | Infinite Mint and Dump | — | View → | |
| 2029 | Panoptic V1.1 | — | base, ethereum, unichain | - | — | View → | |
| 2030 | Tectonic | — | cronos | Price Oracle Attack | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 2031 | Ambient | — | ethereum | Domain Hijack | — | View → | |
| 2032 | Rivus DAO | — | ethereum | Third-party Dev Backdoor Exploit | — | View → | |
| 2033 | DeFi Fake Tokens | — | - | Other | — | — | |
| 2034 | Harbor Protocol | — | comdex | - | — | View → | |
| 2035 | ElonDoge | — | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2036 | Swerve Finance | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2037 | Umami finance | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2038 | Spark | — | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2039 | Golden Moon | — | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2040 | Gemini | — | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 2041 | Ratio Finance | — | solana | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 2042 | Fairmoon | — | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2043 | GeoDB | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2044 | Xave Finance | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2045 | Vauld | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2046 | GoldenEsse | — | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2047 | Transaction Control Protocol | — | ethereum | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2048 | Ebuy Finance | — | binance | Honeypot | — | View → | |
| 2049 | TreasureDAO | — | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 2050 | StaticFire | — | binance | Honeypot | — | 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.
Does this include every attack type?
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