dForce Network
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anchored·JvEg7P…4PwQSummary
dForce Network is a China-founded DeFi protocol suite offering lending, stablecoin, and trading products, founded in late 2018 by Mindao Yang and Xin Xu. The protocol suffered two significant security incidents: a $25 million ERC-777 reentrancy exploit in April 2020 and a $3.65 million read-only reentrancy attack in February 2023, with funds returned in both cases. Despite recovering from both exploits and continuing to operate across multiple chains, the protocol's pattern of deploying code without fully auditing all integrated components remains a documented risk factor.
Connected Entities
11 entities · 60 linked investigations- Ethereum→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Bitcoin(75%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Uniswap(65%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→1inch(70%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Arbitrum(70%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Polygon(60%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- dForce Network→mentioned with→Optimism(70%)
- Midas Capital→mentioned with→Polygon(60%)
- Midas Capital→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
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Connected Through
9 shared actors · 593 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- □Ethereumorganization
- ♦Bitcointoken
- ⌂Uniswapprotocol
- □Arbitrumorganization
Timeline(11 events)
December 2018
dForce Network founded in China by Mindao Yang and Xin Xu as a DeFi protocol suite.
Decrypt interview with Mindao Yang2020
Lendf.Me integrates imBTC (ERC-777 token) as collateral, introducing the reentrancy vulnerability that would be exploited.
Hackers just tapped China's dForce for $25 million — Decrypt14 April 2020
Multicoin Capital leads a $1.5 million seed round in dForce, with China Merchants Bank International and Huobi Capital co-investing.
Our Investment in dForce — Multicoin Capital19 April 2020
Lendf.Me exploited via ERC-777 reentrancy attack. Approximately $25 million drained from 12 lending markets. dForce team discovers the breach at 9:15 AM UTC+8 and pauses the protocol.
A Summary of the Attack on Lendf.Me — Mindao Yang / dForce Medium20 April 2020
Attacker attempts to negotiate with dForce. 1inch Exchange identifies the attacker's Chinese IP address via CDN access logs. Singapore Police Force's Criminal Investigations Department formally requests attacker data from 1inch.
DForce Hacker Attempts to Negotiate After Allegedly Leaking His Identity — CoinTelegraph21 April 2020
Attacker begins returning stolen funds to Lendf.Me contracts.
dForce Attacker Returns All of the $25 Million — BeInCrypto22 April 2020
Substantially all $25 million in stolen funds confirmed returned to dForce. Criticism mounts regarding copied Compound code and absence of audit coverage.
DForce Hacker Returns Stolen Money as Criticism of the Project Continues — CoinTelegraph4 May 2020
dForce redistributes 100% of recovered funds to Lendf.Me users. All affected users made whole.
dForce Ecosystem Update — April 2020 — dForce Medium14 April 2022
ChainSecurity discloses read-only reentrancy vulnerability in Curve pools to Curve and affected protocols. Curve publishes a mitigation. dForce's Curve vault integration is not patched in time.
Explained: The dForce Hack (February 2023) — Halborn9 February 2023
dForce's Curve vault on Arbitrum and Optimism exploited via read-only reentrancy. Approximately $3.65 million drained ($1.9M Arbitrum, $1.7M Optimism).
DForce protocol drained of $3.6 million in reentrancy attack — The Block13 February 2023
Attacker self-identifies as a whitehat, negotiates a bounty with dForce, and returns all $3.65 million to dForce multi-sig wallets.
DForce confirms the return of exploited $3.65m to their vaults — Crypto.newsDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 decisions). 18 of 25 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/31/2026, 6:59:16 AM
last updated: 8/27/2026, 3:06:07 PM
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