Web3 projects lose $1.25 billion since the start of the year to hackers

From January to August, losses Web3-platforms from hackers and scammers totalled $1.25 billion. Such calculations were reported by Immunefi.

Over the last month the figure rose by $23.4 million.

The number of incidents rose to 211.

Four cases are linked to the launched запущенным 9 August Coinbase L2-solution Base — LeetSwap, SwirlLend, Magnate Finance and RocketSwap.

On this metric, the network became as much a target as Ethereum and BNB Chain. In the first, hackers carried out five successful attacks; in the second — four. In total, three blockchains accounted for 62% of all hacks.

Optimism faced two incidents (9.5%); Arbitrum, Solana, Avalanche, Phantom and Linea — one each (the remaining 28.7%).

Two-thirds of Web3 project losses from hacks amounted to $15.8 million. A further $7.6 million were lost to fraud.

Unlike DeFi, no exploits have been recorded among centralized platforms.

Immunefi bounty payouts in August totalled more than $80 million. The platform said it safeguarded $25 billion of user assets in protocols such as Chainlink, The Graph, Synthetix and MakerDAO, according to its representatives.

1 September 2023 | 13:37Update:

PeckShield analysts привели their August statistics: ~20 exploits totalling $17.09 million. As of the 31st, about 2,458 ETH and 1,213 BNB have been sent to Tornado Cash.

According to the report CertiK, crypto-industry-focused attackers stole $45.8 million in digital assets in August alone. From the start of the year the figure stands at $997 million.

In the second quarter, the number of attacks on crypto projects grew by 63%.

Beosin experts estimated industry losses from hacks and fraud for the first half of the year at $655.6 million.

During the same period, inflows of digital assets to illicit services fell by 65%, according to Chainalysis.