Incident All ledgers
Popsicle Finance: $20.7m
Popsicle Finance lost $20.7m on 3 August 2021. Ranked 132nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 3 August 2021
- Lost
- $20.7m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Protocol Logic
- Method
- Reward Logic Flaw
- Chains
- Ethereum
On 3 August 2021, an attacker drained about $20.7M from Popsicle Finance's Sorbetto Fragola UniswapV3 optimizer pool. Share transfers did not update fee-tracking state, so the same fee rewards could be claimed repeatedly across accounts.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 132nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 28th in 2021.
- It accounts for 2.6% of the $798.2m in known losses in August 2021.
- 164 incidents in the ledger are classified as Protocol Logic, for $293.4m in total. This one is 7.1% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Feb 2021 | Alpha Finance | $37.5m | DeFi Protocol | Borrow Logic Flaw | — |
| 30 Nov 2021 | MonoX | $31.4m | DeFi Protocol | Swap Logic Flaw | — |
| 17 May 2021 | BearnFi | $18.0m | DeFi Protocol | Withdrawal Logic Flaw | — |
| 25 Mar 2025 | Abracadabra Spell | $13.0m | DeFi Protocol | Liquidation Logic Flaw | — |
| 30 Apr 2022 | Saddle Finance | $11.0m | DeFi Protocol | Swap Logic Flaw | — |
All failures in 2021 · 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, “Popsicle Finance, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/popsicle-finance-2021-08-03/. How this is built