Key Takeaways Chainalysis logged $3.4B stolen in 2025, with Bybit’s $1.5B hack alone accounting for 44% of that total. H1 2026 set a record 212 incidents per Blockaid, with Lazarus-linked crews behind about 55% of these losses. KelpDAO’s $293M April exploit was 2026’s largest single hit. Six Years, More Than $16 Billion Gone Crypto theft is no longer a phase that the digital asset industry is slowly getting out of but an industry unto itself. To this point, over the past half a decade alone, onchain sleuths have counted ballooning stolen totals ($3.7 billion in 2022, $1.7 billion in 2023, …