Incident All ledgers
Bunny: $45.0m
Bunny lost $45.0m on 19 May 2021. Ranked 77th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 19 May 2021
- Lost
- $45.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Oracle Manipulation
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- Chains
- BSC
On May 19, 2021, PancakeBunny was hit by a flashloan-driven oracle manipulation that let the attacker mint 7M BUNNY and take 114,631 WBNB, about $45M, sending the BUNNY price crashing.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 77th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 17th in 2021.
- It accounts for 15.7% of the $287.1m in known losses in May 2021.
- 159 incidents in the ledger are classified as Oracle Manipulation, for $894.1m in total. This one is 5.0% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Bunny
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2021 | Bunny | $2.4m | DeFi Protocol | Unbacked Mint | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Sept 2021 | Vee Finance | $34.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 12 May 2021 | xToken | $24.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 26 Oct 2020 | Harvest Finance | $24.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 12 Apr 2022 | Elephant Money | $22.2m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 06 Nov 2022 | Pando Rings | $22.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
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, “Bunny, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/bunny-2021-05-19/. How this is built