10 of the Biggest Cryptocurrency Heists of 2022…So Far

Web3 is off to a rip-roaring begin. The theoretical transformation of digital society through the blockchain is meant to usher in a daring new decentralized web powered by cryptocurrency. The revolution has begun, the crypto ads inform us! The world is altering. Get your Slurp Juice now!

And but…the world one way or the other stays unusually the identical. Even in web3, the rich monopolize the resources, cops are watching your each transfer, and folks are nonetheless dicks.

Another factor the revolution doesn’t appear to have cured is crime—particularly cybercrime. Just like in web2, the blockchain is in the end nonetheless ruled by software, and, final time I checked, software program can get hacked. Shockingly, that’s what’s been occurring. Exchanges, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized credit based stablecoin protocols—for those who can title it, it’s been hacked. Since January, slightly over a billion dollars is out the door already. Pretty good Q1 for the criminals!

The 12 months isn’t even near being over but, however there’s been so many crypto heists we figured we’d throw collectively a fast rundown. Idk, possibly we’ll do one among these each 4 months or each billion stolen {dollars}. We’ll see how issues go.