• Immunefi reported that the crypto business has a lack of $3.9 billion in 2022.
• The foremost explanation for the loss is the hacks, constituting 95.6%.
• The report additionally means that essentially the most focused chains in 2022 are the BNB Chain and Ethereum, representing greater than half of the yr’s chain assaults.

Immunefi, Web3’s main bug bounty platform, and the software program firm reported on January 6 that the crypto business has a complete lack of about $3,948,856,037 in 2022.

As per the stories, the most important explanation for the losses is the hacks, which represent round 95.6% of the entire. In the meantime, solely 4.4% might be attributed to the remainder of the problems together with fraud, scams, and rug pull.

To be particular, 2022 has witnessed a lack of nearly $3,773,906,837 in 134 specific incidents. Whereas evaluating the losses in 2021 and 2022, this yr has a considerable enhance within the loss by 56.2%.

Considerably, the report means that essentially the most focused sector was decentralized finance  (DeFi), with a lack of nearly 80.5% whereas centralized finance (CeFi) suffered solely a lack of 19.5%:

DeFi has suffered $3,180,023,103 in complete losses in 2022, throughout 155 incidents. This quantity represents a 56.2% enhance in comparison with 2021, when DeFi misplaced $2,036,015,896, in 107 incidents.

As well as, the platform identified that essentially the most focused chains in 2022 had been BNB Chain and Ethereum, “representing greater than half of the chain assaults in 2022”, constituting 63. 3%.

Curiously, among the many two chains, the BNB Chain has outdone Ethereum:

BNB Chain surpassed Ethereum and have become essentially the most focused chain in 2022, with 65 incidents, representing 36.1%, whereas Ethereum witnessed 49 incidents, representing 27.2%.

Additional, Immunefi offered perception into the recoveries of the losses, although it’s not plentiful. A complete of $204,157,000 has been recovered throughout 12 situations, representing simply 5.2% of the entire losses of 2022.