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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 401–450 of 3299 ranked incidents
| Rank | Project | Amount Lost | Date | Chain | Technique | Attack Guide | Source |
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| 401 | Audius | $6.0M | ethereum | Malicious Governance Proposal | Dao Governance Attacks | View → | |
| 402 | My Big Coin | $6.0M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 403 | Kronos Dao | $6.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 404 | Wasabi Protocol | $5.9M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 405 | MapleChange | $5.9M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 406 | TrustedVolumes | $5.9M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 407 | Loopscale | $5.8M | solana | Price Oracle Manipulation / Other | Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation | View → | |
| 408 | Lodestar Finance | $5.8M | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 409 | Inverse Finance Frontier | $5.8M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 410 | Squid Game | $5.7M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 411 | Roll | $5.7M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 412 | XSURGE | $5.6M | - | Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 413 | Wasabi | $5.5M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 414 | Agave | $5.5M | gnosis chain | Flashloan Reentrancy Attack / Other | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 415 | Gravity Bridge | $5.4M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 416 | Gravity Bridge | $5.4M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 417 | ETERBASE | $5.4M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 418 | Friendsies | $5.3M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 419 | Slope Wallet | $5.3M | solana | Private Key Compromised (Stored Publicly) / Other | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 420 | Bitstamp | $5.3M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 421 | BEAM | $5.2M | - | Phishing | Phishing Attacks | View → | |
| 422 | Cyrus Finance | $5.0M | bsc | Flashloan Pool Shares Exploit | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 423 | Makina | $5.0M | ethereum | Flashloan Price Oracle Attack / Flash Loan Attack | Flash Loans Attacks | View → | |
| 424 | BetterBank | $5.0M | pulsechain | Infinite Mint and Dump / Other | — | View → | |
| 425 | ZKsync | $5.0M | zksync era | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 426 | 1inch | $5.0M | ethereum | Calldata underflow and resolver hijack | Arithmetic Overflows Underflows | View → | |
| 427 | Truflation | $5.0M | - | Private Key Compromised (Malware) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 428 | Truflation | $5.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 429 | PolyNetwork | $5.0M | polynetwork | Reentrancy | Reentrancy | View → | |
| 430 | Terra 2.0 | $5.0M | terra2 | IBC hooks exploit | — | View → | |
| 431 | Loopring | $5.0M | loopring | Guardian 2FA service exploit / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 432 | Poly Network | $5.0M | bsc, ethereum, polygon | Private Key Compromised (Unknown Method) | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 433 | ParaSpace Lending V1 | $5.0M | ethereum | Borrow Logic Exploit | — | View → | |
| 434 | Shata Capital | $5.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 435 | Osmosis | $5.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 436 | Thorchain DEX | $5.0M | ethereum | Over-ride Logic Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 437 | XDX Swap | $5.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 438 | Bitrue | $5.0M | - | Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 439 | Yapizon | $5.0M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 440 | Shezmu | $4.9M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 441 | OcelotDex | $4.9M | ethereum | Infinite Mint and Dump | — | View → | |
| 442 | DeltaPrime | $4.8M | arbitrum, avalanche | Debt Swap Exploit / Other | — | View → | |
| 443 | Super Sushi Samurai | $4.8M | blast | Infinite Mint and Dump | — | View → | |
| 444 | ZBExchange | $4.8M | - | Other | — | View → | |
| 445 | Tapioca DAO | $4.7M | arbitrum | Private Key Compromised (Social Engineering) / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 446 | Secret Network | $4.7M | - | - | — | View → | |
| 447 | Aqua | $4.7M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 448 | DuelBits | $4.6M | ethereum | Private Key Compromised / Access Control | Access Control Attacks | View → | |
| 449 | Bitcoin Savings and Trust | $4.6M | - | Rugpull | — | View → | |
| 450 | pNetwork | $4.6M | bsc | Misconfiguration | — | 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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