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What rekt means

Rekt is wrecked, spelt the way it sounds. In crypto it means you lost badly, usually on one trade or one hack.

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rekt
Wrecked. Beaten, or badly down.
get rekt
A taunt: you lost, and loudly.
I got rekt
Said about yourself, usually with a laugh.

Where rekt came from

Gamers spelt wrecked as rekt in trash talk in the early 2010s. Dictionary.com dates the spelling to 2010 to 2015.

From games it went to forums and memes, then to crypto, where losing everything overnight is common enough to need a short word.

Source: Dictionary.com, rekt.

Rekt in crypto

  • A trade that went the wrong way: rekt.
  • A leveraged position wiped out: very rekt.
  • A project drained by a hack: rekt, and on the leaderboard.

Rekt and the words beside it

Paper hands sell and get rekt on the way out. A rug pull leaves everybody who held rekt. A degen is often the one saying it about themselves.

Rekt in a card

A card for somebody's worst month that says rekt, still here reads as a joke among friends, not as pity.

The front of the card

For Theo · A rough month · 18 October

Collection pot6 people chipped in 180 USDG

  • Rekt, but still the best person in this chat.

    Noor

  • Dinner is on us this week.

    Sam and Ade

  • gm. Still here.

    0xmira

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Questions

What does rekt mean?

Wrecked. In crypto, it means you lost badly.

What does get rekt mean?

A taunt aimed at somebody who just lost.

Where does rekt come from?

Online gaming in the early 2010s, as a way of spelling wrecked.

Is rekt rude?

Get rekt can be. Saying you got rekt about yourself is usually a joke.

What is rekt.news?

A site that writes up crypto hacks and keeps a leaderboard of the largest.

On 4 October 2026 we read rekt.news's leaderboard of hacks. Bybit's, on 21 February 2025, was the largest named one, at $1.44 billion.

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