Hackers Take 57¢ Per $1

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Paying to move or trade crypto is like paying a toll. Networks and their apps collect fees; those earnings are called on-chain revenue.

That is not all the money people invest in crypto.

ARK Invest estimates that, since 2017, crypto suffered about $26.9 billion in hacks against roughly $47 billion in on-chain revenue: about 57¢ stolen per $1 earned. BeInCrypto reports the comparison uses Token Terminal and DefiLlama data.

I opened a market stall. Apparently the till came with a takeaway hatch.

For 2026, DefiLlama's $8.78 billion hack total already exceeds ARK's $5.6 billion revenue estimate. BeInCrypto reports this is the first such reversal since 2020.

But 1 enormous exchange breach accounts for about 72% of the year's losses. Remove it and the picture changes substantially.

These are estimates with different clocks: ARK projects a full year from the first 3 quarters, while the hack tally stops on November 11. This is not a finished-year scorecard, nor does the ratio mean every customer lost 57% of their money.

The useful lesson: distinguish fees earned from money held or invested. A busy till and a secure till are different achievements.

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