Incident All ledgers
DEUS Finance: $13.4m
DEUS Finance lost $13.4m on 28 April 2022. Ranked 167th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 28 April 2022
- Lost
- $13.4m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Oracle Manipulation
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- Chains
- Fantom
DEUS Finance lost about $13.4M on April 28, 2022 when an attacker used a $143M flashloan to skew the DEI/USDC pool on Solidly, inflating DEI's oracle price to overborrow, then routed funds through Tornado Cash.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 167th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 26th in 2022.
- It accounts for 5.2% of the $255.9m in known losses in April 2022.
- 159 incidents in the ledger are classified as Oracle Manipulation, for $894.1m in total. This one is 1.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named DEUS
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05 May 2023 | DEUS Finance | $6.5m | DeFi Protocol | Arithmetic Error | — |
| 15 Mar 2022 | DEUS Finance | $3.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 15 Mar 2021 | DEUS Finance | $3.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2021 | Indexed Finance | $16.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 02 Apr 2022 | Inverse Finance Frontier | $15.6m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 28 Sept 2020 | Eminence | $15.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 13 Apr 2023 | Yearn Finance | $11.5m | DeFi Protocol | Oracle Misconfiguration | — |
| 12 May 2022 | Venus Protocol | $11.2m | DeFi Protocol | Stale Oracle Price | — |
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, “DEUS Finance, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/deus-finance-2022-04-28/. How this is built