Incident All ledgers
Rhea Lend: $18.4m
Rhea Lend lost $18.4m on 16 April 2026. Ranked 143rd of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 16 April 2026
- Lost
- $18.4m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Oracle Manipulation
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- Chains
- Near
On April 16, 2026, Rhea Lend on NEAR lost about $18.4 million when an attacker used a chained swap path to defeat its margin module's slippage protection. After setting up fake tokens and eight Ref Finance pools over the prior days, the attacker had the oracle accept those pool prices.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 143rd of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 18th in 2026.
- It accounts for 2.8% of the $648.1m in known losses in April 2026.
- 159 incidents in the ledger are classified as Oracle Manipulation, for $894.1m in total. This one is 2.1% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Apr 2022 | Elephant Money | $22.2m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 06 Nov 2022 | Pando Rings | $22.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 10 Jun 2024 | UwU Lend | $20.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 14 Oct 2021 | Indexed Finance | $16.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 02 Apr 2022 | Inverse Finance Frontier | $15.6m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
All failures in 2026 · 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, “Rhea Lend, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/rhea-lend-2026-04-16/. How this is built