Cryptocurrency [loss] $42M+

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2025-07-09 [vendor] GMX [chain] ethereum
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

  1. 2025-07-09 Breach occurred
  2. 2025-07-09 Publicly disclosed