Year in review

2026 in crypto failure

Every CryptoMortem record with a primary date in 2026, ordered chronologically. Affected funds across these records exceed $77 billion.

• Hack·May 27, 2026resolved

  StakeDAO 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 affected
• Hack·May 25, 2026ongoing

  Safe 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
• Hack·May 19, 2026resolved

  THORChain Trading Resumed After $10.7M Vault Exploit

  THORChain resumed trading after a five-week halt that followed a reported $10.7 million multichain exploit in May 2026 affecting an Asgard vault; the present record remains sparse on mechanism, attribution, and recovery.

  $10.7M affected