Incident All ledgers
Truebit: $26.4m
Truebit lost $26.4m on 8 January 2026. Ranked 110th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 8 January 2026
- Lost
- $26.4m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Token & Share Accounting
- Method
- Arithmetic Error
- Chains
- Ethereum
On January 8, 2026, an attacker exploited an integer overflow in Truebit Protocol's token purchase logic, minting TRU almost free and selling it to the bonding curve for about $26M. TRU fell 99.9%.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 110th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 13th in 2026.
- It accounts for 25.4% of the $104.1m in known losses in January 2026.
- 160 incidents in the ledger are classified as Token & Share Accounting, for $1.45bn in total. This one is 1.8% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Nov 2023 | KyberSwap Elastic | $48.0m | DeFi Protocol | Rounding Error | — |
| 02 May 2021 | Spartan | $30.5m | DeFi Protocol | Incorrect Share Accounting | — |
| 05 Mar 2021 | Paid Network | $27.0m | DeFi Protocol | Infinite Mint | — |
| 20 May 2024 | Gala | $22.3m | DeFi Protocol | Infinite Mint | — |
| 15 May 2024 | Sonne Finance | $20.0m | DeFi Protocol | Donation Attack | — |
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, “Truebit, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/truebit-2026-01-08/. How this is built