Incident All ledgers
Dego Finance: $10.0m
Dego Finance lost $10.0m on 10 February 2022. Ranked 195th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 10 February 2022
- Lost
- $10.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Deployer Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum, BSC, Cronos
On February 10, 2022, attackers who compromised the Dego Finance contract deployer's private key drained roughly $10-14.4M from liquidity pools on Uniswap and PancakeSwap across Ethereum, BSC, and Cronos.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 195th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 30th in 2022.
- It accounts for 2.5% of the $404.1m in known losses in February 2022.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.1% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Dec 2020 | Exmo | $10.5m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Jul 2026 | Triple-A | $9.7m | Payments | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Jul 2014 | Cryptsy | $9.6m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 06 Jun 2019 | GateHub | $9.5m | CEX | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 19 Oct 2025 | Astra Nova | $9.1m | AI Agent | Private Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2022 · 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, “Dego Finance, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/dego-finance-2022-02-10/. How this is built