Incident All ledgers
UwU Lend: $20.0m
UwU Lend lost $20.0m on 10 June 2024. Ranked 135th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 10 June 2024
- Lost
- $20.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- DeFi Protocol
- Category
- Oracle Manipulation
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- Chains
- Ethereum
UwU Lend was exploited on June 10, 2024 for roughly $19.3-20 million after an attacker used about $3.8B in flashloans to manipulate Curve pools and corrupt 5 of 11 USDe price sources. A second attack days later took a further $3.7 million.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 135th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 17th in 2024.
- It accounts for 17.4% of the $114.9m in known losses in June 2024.
- 159 incidents in the ledger are classified as Oracle Manipulation, for $894.1m in total. This one is 2.2% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May 2021 | xToken | $24.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 26 Oct 2020 | Harvest Finance | $24.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 12 Apr 2022 | Elephant Money | $22.2m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 06 Nov 2022 | Pando Rings | $22.0m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
| 16 Apr 2026 | Rhea Lend | $18.4m | DeFi Protocol | Spot Price Manipulation | — |
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, “UwU Lend, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/uwu-lend-2024-06-10/. How this is built