Incident All ledgers
dForce Lending: $25.0m
dForce Lending lost $25.0m on 19 April 2020. Ranked 116th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 19 April 2020
- Lost
- $25.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Reentrancy
- Method
- Reentrancy
- Chains
- Ethereum
On April 19, 2020, an attacker exploited an ERC777 reentrancy flaw in dForce's Lendf.Me, repeatedly supplying and withdrawing tokens before balances updated to take about $25M. Law enforcement and exchanges recovered the funds within days.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 116th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 3rd in 2020.
- It accounts for 98.1% of the $25.5m in known losses in April 2020.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Reentrancy, for $458.1m in total. This one is 5.5% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named dForce
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb 2023 | dForce Lending | $3.6m | DeFi Protocol | Read-Only Reentrancy | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Jul 2025 | GMX V1 EVM | $42.0m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | $40.0m |
| 18 Dec 2021 | Grim Finance | $30.0m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | — |
| 03 Sept 2024 | Penpie | $27.0m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | — |
| 30 Aug 2021 | CREAM Lending | $18.8m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | — |
| 14 May 2021 | flash.sx / vaults.sx | $13.0m | DeFi Protocol | Reentrancy | — |
All failures in 2020 · 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, “dForce Lending, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/dforce-lending-2020-04-19/. How this is built