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MERLIN DEX

MEDIUMzkSync Era·Admin Drain·#501 all-time
$1.8M stolenTuesday, April 25, 2023 · 1279 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-10-25

What happened

  • MERLIN DEX, a defi protocol, lost $1.8M on April 25, 2023.

  • The 67th largest of the 197 incidents recorded in 2023: under 1% of the $1.63B lost to hacks that year.

  • Admin Drain is behind 21 recorded incidents totalling $180.7M; this is the 13th largest of them.

Cite this record

Monitoring Room, "MERLIN DEX hack — $1.8M stolen", incident record, data: DefiLlama hacks dataset, as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC. https://monitoringroom.com/situation/crypto-hack/merlin-dex

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Source: DefiLlama · 1317 recorded incidents · data as of 2026-10-25 08:00 UTC