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   2026-05-29 17:14:45Z
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It was one of several products in an ecosystem whose treasury declined from approximately $110 million to near zero through a combination of alleged team mismanagement, three separate security incidents, and a court-ordered receivership. The broader Hector Network entered BVI receivership in February 2024 and subsequently obtained US Chapter 15 bankruptcy recognition — the first DAO ever to do so — in July 2024.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-11-01","event":"Hector Network (Hector DAO) launches on Fantom with HEC rebase token; treasury builds to approximately $110 million at peak.","source":""},{"date":"2022-01-01","event":"Hector Lending deployed as a lending product within the Hector ecosystem on Fantom.","source":""},{"date":"2022-06-01","event":"Undisclosed ransomware attack targets Hector Network's self-managed hosting platform; team pays an undisclosed BTC ransom and does not publicly disclose the incident to investors.","source":""},{"date":"2023-03-01","event":"Activist investor group RFV Raiders and community member Lilbagscientist publicly accuse the Hector team of slow-rugging — paying $14 million in team salaries every six months without delivering products.","source":""},{"date":"2023-06-02","event":"Hector Network suffers a $653,000 exploit on a beta bridge contract via an unlimited USDC spending approval. The team does not issue a timely post-mortem. DefiLlama classifies the incident as a protocol logic vulnerability on Fantom.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-06","event":"Multichain bridge collapses; Hector Network loses $8 million in treasury assets as bridged tokens depegged from Ethereum-side collateral.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-15","event":"Hector DAO token holders pass governance proposal HIP 42 with 83.31% support, voting to dissolve the project and distribute remaining treasury assets (~$16 million) to token holders.","source":""},{"date":"2023-09-01","event":"Hector Network Discord server goes dark, removing primary investor communication channel.","source":""},{"date":"2023-12-19","event":"CertiK completes audit of the HectorRedemptionTreasury contract and flags centralization risk in the AddEligibleWallet function as unresolved after the team declines to implement recommended changes.","source":""},{"date":"2024-01-15","event":"HectorRedemptionTreasury exploit: attacker adds an eligible wallet via AddEligibleWallet (tx 0x1b813d9), then calls mintWithdraw (tx 0xd1b342c) to drain $2.7 million. Blockchain analysis suggests an inside job or private key compromise.","source":""},{"date":"2024-01-18","event":"Hector Network team sends final communication to investors, then goes silent, allegedly deleting the Google Group email address used for investor contact.","source":""},{"date":"2024-02-19","event":"Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) issues receivership order placing Hector Network under the custody of Interpath BVI, with James Drury and Paul Pretlove as receivers. Remaining assets valued at approximately $9.3 million.","source":""},{"date":"2024-04-09","event":"BVI courts issue final receivership order appointing Interpath on a full and final basis.","source":""},{"date":"2024-07-15","event":"U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael B. Kaplan grants Chapter 15 recognition of the BVI receivership, marking the first time a DAO has obtained US bankruptcy recognition as a debtor.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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