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

6/18/2026

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 security industry.

What began as a $50 million exploit now sits at the claimed origin of a $130 million Ethereum security fund.

What The DAO Was — and Why It Drew So Much Capital A DAO, short for decentralized autonomous organization, is a pool of resources governed by code published on a blockchain rather than by executives or a board.

The rules are written in software; in theory, no single party can override them.

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