Kelp
CRITICALEthereum, Arbitrum·Cross-Chain Message Spoofing·#14 all-time
$293.0M stolenSaturday, April 18, 2026 · 190 days ago
Corpus updated 2026-10-25
What happened
Kelp, a defi protocol, lost $293.0M on April 18, 2026.
The 4th largest of the 309 incidents recorded in 2026 so far: 12% of the $2.36B lost to hacks that year.
Cross-Chain Message Spoofing is behind 6 recorded incidents totalling $308.2M; this is the largest of them.
Cite this record
Monitoring Room, "Kelp hack — $293.0M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/kelp
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Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC