Incident All ledgers
Radiant V2: $50.0m
Radiant V2 lost $50.0m on 16 October 2024. Ranked 72nd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 16 October 2024
- Lost
- $50.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Blind Signing
- Chains
- BSC, Arbitrum
On 16 October 2024, attackers infected three Radiant core contributors' devices with macOS malware and tampered with the Safe{Wallet} front-end, tricking signers into approving malicious transactions that seized and drained Radiant's lending markets on BSC and Arbitrum for $50,000,000.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 72nd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 6th in 2024.
- It accounts for 48.3% of the $103.5m in known losses in October 2024.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 1.6% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Other incidents named Radiant
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 Jan 2024 | Radiant V2 | $4.5m | DeFi Protocol | Rounding Error | — |
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | Nobitex | $82.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
| 19 Apr 2021 | EasyFi | $59.0m | DeFi Protocol | Malware | — |
| 05 Nov 2021 | Ooki | $55.0m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 22 Jul 2023 | CoinsPaid | $37.3m | Other | Impersonation Scam | — |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Upbit | $36.0m | CEX | Malware | — |
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, “Radiant V2, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/radiant-v2-2024-10-16/. How this is built