CRYPTOSTORY 1182· JUNE 18, 2026

The DAO Hack at Ten: How a $50 Million Exploit Seeded a $130 Million Ethereum Security Fund

Ten years after an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, the crypto industry is treating the anniversary not as a cautionary footnote but as a founding moment — one credited with spurring the creation of the modern crypto…

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