Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Compound
Hack or exploit on Oct 4, 2021 · Contract Vulnerability
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$68.8M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#86
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
While the decentralized lending agreement Compound tried to fix the loopholes in the liquidity mining token distribution contract through the No. 63 or No. 64 community proposal, another COMP token worth US$68.8 million (a total of 202,472 COMP) was due to The call of the drip() function was entered into the liquidity mining token distribution contract that has existing loopholes.
Details
- Date
- Oct 4, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Contract Vulnerability
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Compound hack, Oct 4, 2021: $68.8M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht71ed142afa/ (data as of 2026-10-31).