Incident All ledgers
DEXX: $21.0m
DEXX lost $21.0m on 16 November 2024. Ranked 131st of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 16 November 2024
- Lost
- $21.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- Wallet
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- Chains
- Solana
On November 16, 2024, attackers obtained private keys from the DEXX memecoin trading terminal and drained Solana wallets of at least 900 users, with losses recorded at $21M and later estimates reaching $30M. SlowMist tied more than 8,620 wallets to the attacker.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 131st of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 15th in 2024.
- It accounts for 30.2% of the $69.5m in known losses in November 2024.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr 2023 | Bitrue | $23.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 04 Jun 2024 | Lykke | $22.4m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Aug 2021 | Bilaxy | $21.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Sept 2025 | SBI Crypto | $21.0m | Other | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Oct 2024 | US Government Crypto Wallet | $20.0m | Other | Private Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2024 · 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, “DEXX, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/dexx-2024-11-16/. How this is built