Incident All ledgers
AnubisDAO: $60.0m
AnubisDAO lost $60.0m on 29 October 2021. Ranked 62nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 29 October 2021
- Lost
- $60.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Rugpull
- Method
- Admin Drain
- Chains
- Ethereum
In October 2021, AnubisDAO raised about 13,556 ETH (roughly $60M) from investors, and within 20 hours all of it was moved to attacker wallets. The funds were later laundered through Tornado Cash in July 2023.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 62nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 13th in 2021.
- It accounts for 13.4% of the $449.0m in known losses in October 2021.
- 40 incidents in the ledger are classified as Rugpull, for $284.7m in total. This one is 21.1% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Mar 2021 | Meerkat Finance | $31.0m | DeFi Protocol | Admin Drain | — |
| 23 Jun 2021 | StableMagnet | $27.0m | DeFi Protocol | Backdoor Contract | — |
| 20 Feb 2019 | Coinbin | $26.0m | CEX | Admin Drain | — |
| 02 Aug 2023 | Bald | $23.0m | DeFi Protocol | Liquidity Rug | — |
| 25 Nov 2021 | Snowdog | $18.1m | DeFi Protocol | Liquidity Rug | — |
All failures in 2021 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “AnubisDAO, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/anubisdao-2021-10-29/. How this is built