DappRadar: January Has Lowest Exploits Compared to 2022

Few Exploits in January for Crypto and Web3

The blockchain industry had only eleven exploits in January 2023, of which four occurred on BNB Chain, the most for any chain.

The exploits resulted in a total loss of over $14 million, according to the January Industry Report from Sara Gherghelas of DappRadar. The amount lost in January was lower than in previous years. LendHub suffered the largest loss of over $6 million via the HECO network.

“January 2023 saw 11 blockchain exploits that resulted in a total loss of $14.6 million,” Gherghelas writes. “The majority of these exploits occurred on BNB Chain, with four incidents recorded. Despite this, the amount lost in January 2023 was lower compared to previous years, marking a positive trend for the blockchain industry.”

The report from Gherghelas outlines an overall positive month from the entire industry, highlighted by increasing volume in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) sales.

Other highlights from the report include:

• BNB Chain had the second most daily Unique Active Wallets (dUAW) at 392,882, down 27% from December
• PancakeSwap was the most popular BNB Chain Decentralized Application (Dapp) with 1.29 million UAW
• Solana was the top-performing chain, growing 70% to 53,683 dUAW
• Ethereum increased its dUAW 39% to 116,255
• Lido grew to over $8 billion in Total Volume Locked (TVL) the largest in all crypto
• NFT trading volume jumped to over $946 million

Check out the full report from DappRadar here.

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