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Summary

Zapper was a DeFi portfolio tracking and interaction platform founded in 2019 that reached 2 million monthly active users and raised approximately $16.5 million from investors including Mark Cuban and Framework Ventures. The platform announced it would permanently shut down all services on August 3, 2026, following a sustained decline in market demand and a damaging April 2025 domain hijacking incident in which attackers socially engineered Zapper's domain registrar to redirect users to a phishing page. The shutdown creates immediate user-protection concerns: lingering wallet permissions granted to Zapper's contracts should be revoked, and the closure creates conditions favorable for scammers to launch fake 'Zapper migration' or 'fund recovery' phishing campaigns targeting former users.

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    Timeline(6 events)

    2019-01-01

    Zapper founded; wins Kyber Network DeFi Hackathon in inaugural year.

    Blockonomi

    2020-01-01

    Zapper raises $1.5 million seed round from Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, and CoinGecko Ventures.

    Yahoo Finance / Crypto Economy

    2021-05-17

    Zapper closes $15 million Series A led by Framework Ventures, with Mark Cuban, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Spartan Group, DeFiance Capital, ParaFi Capital, and Stani Kulechov (Aave) participating.

    Crypto Briefing

    2025-04-01

    Attackers socially engineer Netim, Zapper's .fi domain registrar, hijacking the zapper.fi domain and redirecting users to a phishing page. Zapper migrates to zapper.xyz as the canonical domain.

    Zapper official X post

    2026-07-09

    CEO Seb Audet publicly announces Zapper will wind down, citing insufficient market demand and the exhaustion of all viable alternative paths.

    The Coin Republic

    2026-08-03

    Zapper permanently shuts down all services: the zapper.xyz website, mobile applications, and API platform. API customers receive transition emails. Ctrl Wallet also closes on the same date.

    FinanceFeeds / CoinTelegraph
    Provenance & Audit Trail
    9 Wayback Archives

    Decision Log

    • #1publish⛓ pending8/2/2026, 5:34:17 PM
      hash: GTUNdJ6ZFNxTAHYjmXWAghikyQktFivJGiYkk3RcjNbL

    9 of 18 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

    full audit log →version history →

    model: claude-sonnet-4-6

    generated: 8/2/2026, 5:34:06 PM

    last updated: 8/2/2026, 7:33:29 PM

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