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2024

Sep 2024 - Pythia Finance Staking Contract Vulnerability And Rug Pull - $53k (Global)   Aug 2024 - Usual Money Discord Breach Fake Airdrop - $Unknown (Global)   Jun 2024 - YOLO Games Liquidity exitPool Check Missing - $1.5m (Global)

2023

May 2023 - Deus Finance (DEI Stablecoin) Burn Vulnerability - $6.5m (Global)   Feb 2023 - Platypus Finance Unchecked Stablecoin Collateral - $8.5m (Global)

2022

Dec 2022 - Defrost Finance V2 Reentrancy Exploit - $174k (Global)   Oct 2022 - OlympusDAO Bond Contract Exploited - $292k (Global)   Aug 2022 - Acala Network aUSD Infinite Mint Depegging - $6.2m (Global) Aug 2022 - Curve Finance DNS Hijacking - $Unknown (Global)   Jul 2022 - MetaMask Large USDC/USDT Theft Setana0 - $88k (Global)   Jun 2022 - CoinFlex flexUSD Stablecoin Depegs - $120m (Global)   May 2022 - DEI Stablecoin Depegging - $74.539m (Global) May 2022 - Luna Terra Algorithmic Stablecoin Crash - $55b (Global)   Apr 2022 - DeusDao Muon Price Manipulation Hack - $Unknown (Global) Apr 2022 - BondAppetite Stablecoin Peg Lost - $Unknown (Global) Apr 2022 - Beanstalk Farms Stablecoin Hack - $182m (Global)   Mar 2022 - Circle HubSpot Data Breach - $Unknown (United States) Mar 2022 - OpenDAO USDO Stable Coin Collapses - $24.349m (Global)   Feb 2022 - Flurry Finance Vault Flash Loan Attack - $251k (Global) Feb 2022 - Compound Finance Live Critical Vulnerability - $0k (Global)   Jan 2022 - Float Protocol Rari Capital Weak Oracle - $250k (Global)

2021

Dec 2021 - Bent Finance Malicious Balance Injection - $1.78m (Global) Dec 2021 - Charge DeFi Flash Loan Attack - $1.16m (Global) Dec 2021 - OlympusDAO V2 Migration Scams - $20k (Global) Dec 2021 - Hinge Romance Scam Niki Hutchinson - $390k (United States) Dec 2021 - 8ight Finance Private Key Leak - $1.75m (Global)   Nov 2021 - Coffin Dollar Stablecoin Depegs - $2.212m (Global) Nov 2021 - Curve Finance Governance Attack - $46m (Global) Nov 2021 - Saddle Finance MetaSwap Nerve/Synapse Bridge Exploit - $8.2m (Global)   Aug 2021 - Curve Bribe Exploit - $117k (Global) Aug 2021 - Punk Protocol Reinitialized - $8.95m (Global) Aug 2021 - Zerogoki Price Oracle Compromised - $670k (Global) Aug 2021 - Wault Finance Stablecoin Peg Logic Error - $816k (Global)   Jul 2021 - Midas Dollar V2 Peg Not Established - $Unknown (Global)   Jun 2021 - SafeDollar Reward Logic Exploited - $250k (Global) Jun 2021 - StableMagnet Exit Scam - $27m (Global) Jun 2021 - SharedStake TimeLock Vulnerabilities - $500k (Global) Jun 2021 - Eleven Finance Logic Exploit - $4.8m (Global) Jun 2021 - SafeDollar First Exploit - $95k (Global) Jun 2021 - Alchemix alETH "Rug Put" - $6.53m (Global) Jun 2021 - Iron Finance Titan Stablecoin Collapses - $2b (Global) Jun 2021 - Unified Stable Dollar Suspended - $35k (Global)   May 2021 - BEarnFi BVaults Exploited - $17.939m (Global) May 2021 - BDollar V2 (BDOV2) Dollar Fails To Peg - $34.096m (Global) May 2021 - Iron Finance Irony - $11m (Global)   Apr 2021 - Midas Dollar Peg Lost - $1.733m (Global) Apr 2021 - Monster Slayer Finance Rug Pull - $2.317m (Global)   Mar 2021 - bDollar (BDO) Stablecoin Peg Lost - $120m (Global) Mar 2021 - Iron Finance Burned - $170k (Global) Mar 2021 - Kava Labs Accounting Logic Error - $0k (Global) Mar 2021 - Curve Finance V1 Vulnerability - $0k (Global)   Jan 2021 - Dynamic Set Dollar Peg Lost - $Unknown (Global) Jan 2021 - freeLiquid USDFL Stablecoin Peg Lost - $Unknown (Global) Jan 2021 - Stand Cash Stablecoin Not Stable - $20m (Global)

2020

Dec 2020 - One Cash Finance Not Stable - $5.6m (Global) Dec 2020 - Empty Set Dollar Stablecoin Collapse - $200k (Global)   Nov 2020 - Compound Price Feed Error - $4m (Global)   Oct 2020 - Curve Finance Google Phish - $231k (Global) Oct 2020 - DeFi Saver/imToken DAI Reduction - $310k (Global) Oct 2020 - AmplyFi.Money Exit Scam - $885k (Global)   Sep 2020 - Swerve Finance Swerves Finely - $8m (Global) Sep 2020 - Soft Yearn (SFYI) Rebase Exploit - $250k (Global)   Jul 2020 - MMM BSC Multi-Level Marketing Scheme - $5m (Global) Jul 2020 - Forsage Multi Level Marketing Scheme - $874.673m (Global)   Jun 2020 - MakerDao Web3 DeFi Phishing - $100k (Global) Jun 2020 - Atomic Loans Close Call - $0k (Canada)   May 2020 - LMEX Stock Exchange - $150k (China) May 2020 - Bitcoin Backed tBTC Stuck - $0k (Global)   Apr 2020 - Curve Finance SUSD Vulnerability - $0k (Global)   Mar 2020 - MakerDao Abnormal Liquidations - $8.3m (Global)   Feb 2020 - Nexus Mutual Fund Pool Vulnerable - $0k (Global)   Jan 2020 - Curve Drainable Hack - $0k (Global)

2019

Nov 2019 - BitUSD Stablecoin Depegged - $Unknown (Global)   Oct 2019 - MakerDao Auction Lack of Validation - $7m (Global)   Sep 2019 - DDEX Exchange Price Manipulation - $0k (Global)   Jun 2019 - Synthetix Oracle Theft Incident - $37m (Global)   May 2019 - MakerDAO Governance Vulnerability - $100m (Global)

2018

Dec 2018 - Basecoin Shut Down By SEC - $0k (United States)   Nov 2018 - Tether Fake Android Wallet - $Unknown (Global)   Mar 2018 - NuBits Stablecoin Depegged - $70.51m (Global)

2017

Nov 2017 - Tether USDT Token Theft - $30.95m (Global)

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