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Exploit record
Cetus Protocol Exploit
- Loss
- $260M
- Attack vector
- Other
- Chain
- Sui
- Sector
- AMM
What happened
On May 22, 2025, Cetus Protocol on Sui was hit for roughly $260M in a devastating AMM manipulation exploit that sent connected token prices down over 90%.
Cetus was one of the year's defining DeFi disasters. By injecting or exploiting false value relationships inside the pool design, the attacker pulled real assets out en masse and left prices across connected tokens shattered. Multiple security firms published detailed root-cause analyses. The Sui ecosystem ultimately coordinated a partial freeze and recovery effort, but the scale of the damage was immense.
Sources
- Halborn analysiswww.halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-cetus-hack-may-2025
- Cyfrin root-cause analysiswww.cyfrin.io/blog/inside-the-223m-cetus-exploit-root-cause-…
- Elliptic analysiswww.elliptic.co/blog/cetus-protocol-hacked-for-more-than-200…
On YFarmX
- Our reporting$220M SUI Network Cetus Exploit – Oracle Bug
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