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rug pull hardDemo

May 22, 2020 · $3.5M · social

Narrative

On 2020-05-22, Kelp DAO suffered a rug pull hard incident resulting in approximately $3,451,170 in losses. The exploit targeted the social layer. Attribution: mev_searcher. This is a demonstration entry — not a real incident.

Victims

Classification

Root cause
rug_pull_hard
Secondary causes
Attack layer
social
Strategy
internal_theft
Actor role
perpetrator
Attribution
mev_searcher
Attacker address
Flash loan
no
Audited at time
no
Bounty at time
yes

AADAPT mappings

DEMO:AADAPT.TA0040DEMO:AADAPT.TA0010DEMO:AADAPT.T1657

Evidence

Disclosure date
May 24, 2020
Funds recovered
$1.9M
Audit firms at time
Post-mortem URLs (synthetic)
  • https://medium.com/kelp-dao/post-mortem-kelp-dao-2020-05-22
  • https://rekt.news/kelp-dao-rekt
  • https://blog.kelp-dao.xyz/incident-report
tx hashes (2)
  • 0x20f793d3a334427c5b01499e0447439bd4b70e12a319e8f5317abce7d708336d
  • 0x94dc16a8ab78e94c118df606d04e6c5d33e505ae00e4a3f579c62595caf57655