Incident All ledgers
Infini: $49.5m
Infini lost $49.5m on 24 February 2025. Ranked 73rd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 24 February 2025
- Lost
- $49.5m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Private Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum
On February 24, 2025, Infini lost $49.5M when a former developer who still held vault-draining privileges emptied the contract, then swapped the USDC for 17,696 ETH via Uniswap, Sky Protocol, and 0x.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 73rd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 8th in 2025.
- It accounts for 3.4% of the $1.48bn in known losses in February 2025.
- 153 incidents in the ledger are classified as Key Compromise, for $8.96bn in total. This one is 0.6% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2023 | CoinEx | $55.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 22 Jun 2024 | BtcTurk | $54.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 27 Nov 2019 | Upbit | $49.3m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 14 Aug 2025 | BtcTurk | $48.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 19 Jul 2025 | CoinDCX | $44.2m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
All failures in 2025 · 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, “Infini, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/infini-2025-02-24/. How this is built