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The DAO

Decentralized autonomous organization launched on Ethereum in April 2016 that raised approximately $150M before a reentrancy exploit in June 2016 led to a contentious Ethereum hard fork.

Records: 1
Cumulative losses: $50.0M

Records featuring The DAO

victim·June 17, 2016resolved
The DAO Hack — June 2016
A recursive-call exploit drained 3.6 million ETH from the largest decentralised organisation on Ethereum, triggering a contentious hard fork that split the chain into ETH and ETC.
$50.0M affected

Records featuring The DAO

The DAO Hack — June 2016