BALD on Base Soft Rug
The BALD memecoin developer pulled liquidity from Coinbase's Base testnet, netting $5.9M in dev profit and $23M in investor losses while denying any rug pull.
An archive of cryptocurrency security incidents — hacks, exploits, bridge failures and rug pulls, documented with on-chain evidence.
The BALD memecoin developer pulled liquidity from Coinbase's Base testnet, netting $5.9M in dev profit and $23M in investor losses while denying any rug pull.
A hidden deployer-only withdrawFunds function in DeFiLabs' BNB Chain staking contract drained $1.6M in user deposits before the project vanished completely.
Kannagi Finance, a zkSync Era yield farm, rug-pulled $2.1M after its closed-source upgradeable staking contract was swapped to a malicious implementation.
$3M rug-pulled from Swaprum on Arbitrum, an Arbiswap fork whose audited contracts hid an upgradeable proxy with a backdoor add() function.
Merlin DEX on zkSync lost $1.82M hours after launch when a back-doored owner role let insiders pull liquidity. CertiK's audit flagged the centralization risk.
Kokomo Finance, an Optimism Compound fork, rug-pulled $4M by pausing cBTC, pointing rewards at a malicious implementation, draining WBTC and deleting socials.
Hope Finance lost $1.86M at its Arbitrum launch after the deployed contract differed from the audited one; funds went straight to Tornado Cash.