Year in review
2026 in crypto failure
Every CryptoMortem record with a primary date in 2026, ordered chronologically.
Gnosis Pay Delay Module Exploit — June 2026
Gnosis Pay disclosed an active exploit affecting its delay module and card wallet infrastructure on June 1, 2026, then said the issue was being contained and all affected users would be reimbursed in full.
$— affectedGravity Bridge Halted After Reported $5.4M Exploit
Gravity Bridge, a Cosmos-Ethereum bridge, was reported exploited on 2026-05-31 for about $5.4 million; public reporting and analyst commentary pointed to a possible signing-key or contract-key compromise, after which the bridge was halted.
$5.4M affectedDxSale BNB Chain Liquidity Exploit on May 29, 2026
DxSale lost about $7.3 million in a BNB Chain locker exploit that reportedly affected roughly 1,400 liquidity providers, after a prior ownership transfer and a withdrawal-loop abuse were identified by analysts.
$7.3M affectedStakeDAO vsdCRV Key Compromise on Arbitrum
A suspected StakeDAO deployer-key compromise let an attacker redirect vsdCRV bridge settings, mint more than 5.4 trillion tokens on Arbitrum, and extract roughly $91,000 before liquidity constraints halted further selling.
$91000 affectedSafe Wallet Third-Party Module Exploit in May 2026
A suspected external module tied to Safe wallet integrations drained about $3.2 million from 86 accounts across Ethereum and Base, while Safe Labs and Squid said their core systems were not the source of the breach.
$3.2M affected