Crypto post-mortem archive · Established 2026
What really happened, in structured form.
Crypto news writes the moment. Court filings live in PACER. On-chain forensics live on Etherscan. CryptoMortem is the place where all three converge — one structured record per incident, every claim cited, every recovery tracked through to distribution.
What we publish
Every claim sourced. Every event the same shape.
Rekt.news writes the post-mortem. CoinDesk writes the news. PACER holds the court filings. Wikipedia keeps a thin summary. None of them lets you do what an analyst actually needs: answer what really happened, where the money went, and how this compares to past failures of the same shape.
This archive does. One page per event. The timeline reads like a court docket. The on-chain flows link to the forensics. The recovery percentage updates as bankruptcy distributions land. Cross-links surface every event sharing an actor, attack vector, or structural failure.
Anatomy of a record
Five layers per event.
Hourly timeline
What happened, when, in source-cited steps. Pivotal moments highlighted; full chronology from first disclosure to final court ruling.
Who was involved
Victims, attackers, enablers, custodians, regulators — each entity linked, their role in the event tagged, their cumulative record viewable.
Structural failures
Each event tagged with the conditions that made it possible — no proof of reserves, oracle manipulation, stale delegation. Pattern library makes recurrence visible.
Recovery tracking
For resolved bankruptcies, the percentage of user funds returned. Updated as new distributions are confirmed by court filings.
Legal status
Verdicts, sentences, custodian assignments, ongoing proceedings. Linked to primary source filings where available.
Recent records
All events →Michelle Bond November Trial in FTX Finance Case
A federal judge in Manhattan set Michelle Bond’s criminal trial for Nov. 9, 2026 after denying her motion to dismiss an indictment alleging unlawful funding of her 2022…
Funds affected$400KDOJ Charge Concerned Alleged Theft of Forfeited Crypto
A July 10, 2026 report stated that the U.S. Department of Justice charged federal inmate Rossen Iossifov over the alleged taking of $290,000 in cryptocurrency that had already…
Funds affected$290KCFTC Action Over Alleged $14M Crypto Pool Fraud
A reported CFTC case alleged that a North Carolina man and his company used a commodity pool tied to crypto and futures trading to obtain about $14 million from about 60 people.
Funds affected$14.0MUsers60Kartik Saini Sentenced in Tech-Support Fraud Case
A federal court sentenced Kartik Saini to more than six years in prison after prosecutors said he participated in a tech-support fraud scheme that targeted senior citizens in the…
Summer Finance exploit linked to flash-loan redemption
A single contemporaneous report said Summer Finance’s Lazy Summer Protocol was exploited for about $6 million, with analysts attributing the loss to a $65.4 million flash loan and…
Funds affected$6.0MAptos Move VM flaw patched after critical disclosure
Hexens reported a critical Aptos Move virtual machine vulnerability on February 25, 2026; Aptos stated that it triaged and patched the issue within hours, while researchers…
Funds affected$70.00BRecovered100.00%
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All events
Every catalogued record, newest first.
0By type
Hacks · Collapses · Depegs · Rugpulls · Regulatory.
172By entity
Exchanges, founders, attackers, regulators — and the events tied to each.
23By pattern
Structural failures that repeat: proof-of-reserves gaps, oracle manipulation, stale delegations.
For journalists & researchers
Every record is also an API.
Each event page exposes a JSON endpoint at /api/events/<slug>. The full archive is at /api/events. No registration, no rate limit on reasonable use, attribution appreciated.