Incident All ledgers
Lympo: $18.7m
Lympo lost $18.7m on 10 January 2022. Ranked 142nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 10 January 2022
- Lost
- $18.7m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- NFTfi
- Category
- Key Compromise
- Method
- Hot Wallet Key Compromised
- Chains
- Ethereum
Lympo's hot wallet was compromised and 165.2 million LMT tokens worth about $18.7M were stolen, then moved through project wallets and swapped for ETH on Uniswap and SushiSwap. LMT fell 92%; cold wallet reserves stayed secure.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 142nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 21st in 2022.
- It accounts for 11.8% of the $158.6m in known losses in January 2022.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2021 | Bilaxy | $21.7m | CEX | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Sept 2025 | SBI Crypto | $21.0m | Other | Hot Wallet Key Compromised | — |
| 16 Nov 2024 | DEXX | $21.0m | Wallet | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 24 Oct 2024 | US Government Crypto Wallet | $20.0m | Other | Private Key Compromised | — |
| 29 Mar 2019 | Bithumb | $19.0m | CEX | Hot Wallet 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, “Lympo, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/lympo-2022-01-10/. How this is built