Cryptocurrency
[loss] $42M+
Tweet by PeckShield
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$42.0M
(42,000,000 USD)
Recovered
$40.5M
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
The decentralized perpetual exchange GMX has been exploited for $42 million. The exploit involved a vulnerability in one version of the exchange’s price calculation smart contract. GMX paused some trading while they investigated the hack, and placed other temporary restrictions on the platform.GMX offered a 10% “bug bounty” to the hacker if they returned the funds. The attacker later returned $40.5 million in stolen assets; unusually, this is more than the 90% return requested by GMX.
Total loss estimated at $42,000,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Smart contract exploit / hack
- Vendor / Product
- GMX
Timeline
- 2025-07-09 Breach occurred
- 2025-07-09 Publicly disclosed