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Browse reviewed exchange incidents and lifecycle disruptions linked back to entity dossiers and supporting evidence.

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Timeline events563
Affected exchanges328
Critical events311
Event-linked sources949

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Incident mix

2021

25 events on this page
Shutdown announcedcritical
BraziliexCEXdead

Braziliex announced the end of operations

Braziliex announced that it would close after four years, publishing a wind-down calendar for trading, APIs, deposits, and customer withdrawals. The operator cited operating risk, new competitors, and regulatory uncertainty in Brazil.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 3
Exploitcritical
AutoSharkDEXdead

AutoShark suffered an economic exploit

An attacker used an economic and flash-loan manipulation path that collapsed the SHARK token price and extracted roughly 2,500 BNB from the protocol ecosystem.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Shutdown effectivecritical
ATOMARSCEXdead

ATOMARS reported loss of wallet access after administrator disappearance

ATOMARS stated that its CFO and exchange administrator had disappeared with access to user wallets while customers reported blocked withdrawals and unresponsive support.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 3
Regulatory actionmedium
ExratesCEXinactive

FINMA added Exrates to its warning list

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority published a warning-list entry for Exrates / Exrates Exchange, naming exrates.me and stating that the listed entity was not entered in the commercial register.

Status effect: noneConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 1
Regulatory actioncritical
VebitcoinCEXdead

Activities stopped and investigation began

Vebitcoin announced that it stopped all activities, while Turkish authorities later blocked onshore bank accounts and detained people linked to the exchange as part of an investigation.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2
Trading haltedcritical
ThodexCEXdead

Thodex users lost access during platform collapse

In April 2021, Thodex users could no longer access accounts after a maintenance / temporary closure notice, while founder Faruk Fatih Özer had left Turkey. The event became the terminal operating collapse of the exchange.

Status effect: deadConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 4
Shutdown effectivehigh
6xCEXdead

6x marked dead after website became inaccessible

Cryptowisser reported that it could not access the 6x Exchange website on 2021-03-15 and marked the exchange dead in its Exchange Graveyard. Other trackers show the exchange as untracked or without current market data.

Status effect: deadConfidence: mediumDirect event-linked evidence: 4
Service outagehigh
UniDAXCEXdead

UniDAX website became inaccessible

Public exchange-status coverage stated that UniDAX could not be accessed on 2021-03-11 and that there was no accompanying information on system maintenance or similar continuity messaging.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 0
Exploitcritical
DODODEXactive

Several DODO V2 Crowdpool pools were affected by a security incident

Several DODO V2 Crowdpool pools were affected by a March 2021 security incident. Public incident analyses and partner updates stated that other V1 and non-Crowdpool V2 pools were not affected, and recovery work followed.

Status effect: limitedConfidence: highDirect event-linked evidence: 2