Incident All ledgers
CREAM Lending: $130.0m
CREAM Lending lost $130.0m on 27 October 2021. Ranked 32nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 27 October 2021
- Lost
- $130.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Oracle Manipulation
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- Chains
- Ethereum
CREAM Finance lost about $130 million on October 27, 2021, when an attacker used flashloans from MakerDAO and Aave to manipulate the yUSD price and mint unbacked yUSD and crYUSD by abusing vault accounting across Curve and Aave.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 32nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 6th in 2021.
- It accounts for 29.0% of the $449.0m in known losses in October 2021.
- 159 incidents in the ledger are classified as Oracle Manipulation, for $894.1m in total. This one is 14.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named CREAM
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2021 | CREAM Lending | $18.8m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Oct 2022 | Mango Markets V3 | $115.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 18 May 2021 | Venus Protocol | $100.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 19 May 2021 | Bunny | $45.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 21 Sept 2021 | Vee Finance | $34.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 12 May 2021 | xToken | $24.0m | 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, “CREAM Lending, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/cream-lending-2021-10-27/. How this is built