Hack history / 2025 / Hack or exploit
SuperRare
Hack or exploit on Jul 28, 2025 · Merkle Proof Forgery
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$730K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,028
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On July 28, 2025, SuperRare RareStakingV1 contract was exploited for ~$730K (11.9M RARE) via broken access control in updateMerkleRoot(). Attacker submitted malicious Merkle roots for fraudulent token claims; a frontrunner later hijacked the exploit.
Details
- Date
- Jul 28, 2025
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Merkle Proof Forgery
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "SuperRare hack, Jul 28, 2025: $730K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htb8972acdf6/ (data as of 2026-10-31).