CRYPTO BANKRUPTCIES

Every Major Crypto Bankruptcy, and What Happened Next

Exchanges, lenders and funds that went bust: how much was owed, why it failed, what customers got back, how long they waited, what happened to the founders, and how the price reacted.
Type Customers got Cause Size Period

The biggest crypto collapses: what customers got back

Exchanges vs lenders vs others

Same questions for each: how much was owed, how much came back and how fast, why it failed, whether anyone was punished, and how the market took it.

How long customers waited, and how much came back

Exchange Lender Fund / miner / bank / other Nothing paid yet

Owed per year

Exchanges Lenders Funds, miners, banks & others

Exchange bankruptcies

Custodial exchanges that went bust while holding customer coins. Click a row for the full story, the sources and the price chart. Click a column header to sort.

Lender and yield platform bankruptcies

Platforms that paid interest on deposits by lending them out or trading with them. Click a row for the full story, the sources and the price chart.

Funds, miners, banks and others

Hedge funds, bitcoin miners, crypto banks, custodians and token issuers. Their creditors were mostly other companies, not retail customers. Click a row for the full story.

What if your exchange went bust tomorrow?

Are your coins still yours? The rules by jurisdiction

Which entity you signed up with decides the rules. The same exchange can ring-fence client coins in one region and not in another.

What the big exchanges' own terms say

Spot balances and Earn products are often treated differently: coins you lend out through Earn can end up in the estate even when spot balances are yours.

Lessons from past bankruptcies

How it's measured