DeFi Exploit: Rhea Finance - Rekt
- Scam type: Hack
- Chain: EVM (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base and other EVM chains)
- Reported: 2026-04-27
- Last updated: 2026-04-27
DeFi Exploit: Rhea Finance - Rekt Date: 4/16/2026 Loss: $18,400,000 USD Tags: Rhea Finance, Swap Route Exploitation, Input Validation Failure Summary: NEAR Protocol's Rhea Finance lost $18.4 million after an attacker exploited a margin parser that counted fake swap route minimums as real collateral. $9 million frozen or recovered. $4 million in ZEC routed into Zcash's shielded pool, cryptographically unrecoverable. Exploit/attacker addresses extracted from on-chain analysis and incident reports. Reference: https://rekt.news/rhea-finance-rekt Source: https://de.fi/rekt-database