Burning Bridges
Recently, Polygon tried to turn its $1.3B bridge into a yield farm. Users said hell no. Aave threatened to exit. Protocols fought, communities roared, and a billion-dollar drama exposed the raw nerves of DeFi governance.
GemPad - Rekt
The perfect digital heist - missing reentrancy guards on Gem Pad let an attacker snatch roughly $1.9 million in locked tokens across three chains. Several protocols left wondering if their lock box provider should have checked their own locks first.
False Prophet
Alpaca Finance lost millions by allegedly using manual CoinGecko price updates instead of real oracles. When questioned, they asked "which faster oracle would you have used?" Turns out F5 isn't a reliable price feed. Who knew?
Clober Dex - Rekt
$500k vanished from Clober DEX when code changes met one of DeFi's oldest vulnerabilities. The twist? The exploit code wasn't there during the audits. Some security lessons write themselves.
Hawkward Exit
From meme queen to meme coin casualty. Hailey Welch’s $HAWK token lost 91% in 3 hours as presale investors emptied their bags on newcomers. Even 15 minutes of fame can last one minute too long. The attention economy has claimed its latest victims.
Paper Tiger
Riding VC millions and prestigious credentials, Parallel Finance secured an early Polkadot parachain slot, only to abandon their chain and mismanage assets. 200k DOT hangs in the balance while an empty governance proposal reveals months of deception.
Pump.snuff
Degens didn’t cross the line—they erased it. The rise of live streaming on pump.fun turned crypto into a grotesque circus of human suffering, where chaos, greed, and depravity spiraled into outright criminality.
Locked Away
From teen DeFi heroes to SEC villains. How Rari Capital suffered two devastating hacks, got charged with fraud, and vanished - leaving a graveyard of frozen funds and a lesson in what happens when code meets hubris.
Slow Burn
$126 million turned to ash as Manifold's founder Sam Bacha traded roadmaps for memes. From failed products to empty promises, another slow burn claims its victims. Where are the heroes when you need them?
Polter Finance
After losing roughly $8.7 million to a textbook case of oracle manipulation, Polter Finance is scrambling to clean up the mess. Their unaudited protocol left key vulnerabilities wide open, and now they’re facing the fallout. Another day, another lesson in DeFi’s recklessness.
In Murky Waters
A billion-dollar game of chess, or a calculated move on a broken board? FTX's lawsuit against Humpy the Whale claims a billion-dollar exploitation, but does the evidence stack up, or is there more beneath the surface?
DeltaPrime - Rekt II
Audited multiple times, hacked twice in two months. DeltaPrime loses another $4.85M after ignoring explicit warnings about admin key security. Like leaving your mansion unlocked after security consultants kept telling you to change the locks.