DEUS Finance
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Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -3.2 |
| Incidents it suffered (e.g. hacks) | -9.6 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -0.8 |
| Long-running | +2 |
| Sum | 53 |
Score: 53/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Page reliability: Fact-checked 2026-10-27 · 5 of 6 claims confirmed · 1 need better sources
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DEUS Finance (also known as DEUS DAO) is a decentralised derivatives, synthetic-asset and lending protocol built mainly on Fantom, co-founded by Lafayette Tabor and Mohammad Abrishami. It suffered three security exploits between March 2022 and May 2023, two flash-loan oracle manipulations on Fantom and one contract implementation bug in its DEI stablecoin, with combined reported losses of roughly $22–23 million; proceeds of the 2022 attacks were routed through Tornado Cash. Its partly algorithmic DEI stablecoin lost its peg in 2022 and never recovered, full user restitution has not been independently verified, and no regulatory or law-enforcement action has been publicly identified.
Connected Entities
9 entities · 60 linked investigations- Yearn Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Fantom (Sonic Labs)→mentioned with→Multichain(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Arbitrum(70%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Multichain(75%)
- DEUS DAO→mentioned with→Fantom (Sonic Labs)(80%)
- DEUS DAO→mentioned with→Terra/Luna(65%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Multichain→mentioned with→Fantom (Sonic Labs)(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Yearn Finance(80%)
- DEUS DAO→mentioned with→Frax Finance(80%)
- + 11 more
Timeline(8 events)
March 2022
First exploit (March 15, 2022): a flash loan manipulates the USDC/DEI price oracle on Fantom and about $3 million (200,000 DAI and 1,101.8 ETH) is stolen; funds are routed through Tornado Cash.
CoinDeskMarch 2022
DEUS deactivates the affected lending contracts and announces a 1:1 user reimbursement funded from personal and DAO treasury reserves; the team commits to upgrading to VWAP oracles.
Crypto DailyApril 2022
Second exploit (April 28, 2022): the attacker takes a $143 million USDC flash loan, buys 9.5 million DEI to manipulate the oracle price on Fantom and drains about $13.4 million (CertiK estimate: $15.7 million); funds are routed through Tornado Cash.
CoinDeskApril 2022
DEUS states no user accounts were liquidated and that losses are protocol-level; DEI lending is paused and the DEUS token falls about 16.5% within 24 hours.
The Record (Recorded Future)May 2022
DEI begins a sustained depeg amid reduced liquidity after the April exploit and the Terra/UST collapse, falling to $0.52 (about 48% below its peg).
CoinTelegraphMay 2022
DEUS halts DEI redemptions (around May 12, 2022) to attempt stabilisation and announces a plan to make DEI fully collateralised.
DecryptMay 2023
Third exploit (May 5, 2023; May 5–6 in some reports): a reversed-parameter bug in the DEI contract's burnFrom function is exploited on Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain (and, per some reports, Ethereum); about $6–7 million is lost and DEI falls to about $0.20.
CertiKMay 2023
About 5.5 million of 7 million DEI-equivalent tokens (reported as about $5.5 million of $7 million) are recovered by alleged white-hat participants by May 7–8, 2023 and placed in a 2/3 multisig; DEUS pauses all contracts and burns DEI tokens.
Web3 Is Going GreatDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 22 of 26 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:49 AM
last updated: 10/27/2026, 7:07:23 PM
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