ZeroLend Empty-Market Donation

In February 2025, a ZeroLend market on Linea lost approximately $371,000 to a share-inflation / donation attack on a freshly-listed market that had no protective initial deposit.

What happened

A newly-listed ZeroLend market with negligible supply was exploited by donating assets directly to the market to inflate the share price, then exploiting the rounding to extract disproportionate value — the canonical empty-market donation attack.

Aftermath

• Market paused; partial recovery.

Why it matters

ZeroLend is yet another empty-market donation attack — Hundred Finance, Sonne, Resupply, Raft, and now ZeroLend. The mitigation is one transaction (a permanently-locked protective initial deposit, or virtual-shares offset) and has been documented since 2021. Its continued absence in freshly-listed markets across years and chains is one of the catalogue's single clearest "the fix is known, free, and skipped" patterns.