Binance Smart Chain 'copykat' project loses $31 million in possible rugpull
Users now need to ask: how many more protocols are at risk? At roughly 9 am UTC today Meerkat, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on Binance’s smart contract platform, lost $31 million worth of BNB tokens. While the team initially claimed that they had been the victim of an exploit, they have since deleted all social channels, and due to the nature of the exploit some believe the team liquidated and pilfered user funds — a type of scam colloquially referred to as a “rugpull.” A fork of Ethereum-native yield vault protocol Yearn Finance, Meerkat was just a few hours old when the attack....
Related News
Another Binance Smart Chain project has been hit with a flash loan attack according to a post mortem written by the Burgerswap team. The project’s official Twitter account said at around 3 a.m. on Friday, Burgerswap suffered from a flash loan attack with the hackers stealing $7.2 million in funds. Binance Smart Chain Defi Protocol Burgerswap Drained for $7.2M The Burgerswap project explained on Friday that the project saw $7.2 million in funds drained after a malicious flash loan attack. “At around 3 am on May 28th (UTC+8) Burgerswap on the BSC chain encountered a flash loan....
The file storage project has all the markings of a rugpull, but will investors be able to get their funds back? Turns out a turtle’s arms are plenty long enough to pull a rug. Yesterday, March 19 Binance Smart Chain (BSC) file storage project TurtleDex performed a “rugpull” exit scam — a colloquial term for when a project’s developers drain the liquidity or stored funds invested by the protocol. Coming off a March 15 presale round that raised 9000 BNB tokens worth nearly $2.5 million, the team drained those funds from trading pools on BSC-native decentralized exchanges Pancake Swap and Ape....
Belt Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized lending protocol, lost $6.3 million in a flash loan attack last week. The attackers took advantage of a series of inefficiencies in the smart contract to manipulate the price of the set and obtain profit from a series of transactions. This is just the last of a series of attacks that seem to be pointing to Binance Chain protocols due to their vulnerabilities. Belt Finance Loses $6.3 Million in Flash Loan Attack Belt Finance, a borrowing and loaning protocol that operates in the Binance Smart Chain suffered a flash attack last week....
The team behind Turtledex protocol, a Binance Smart Chain (BSC) project has reportedly rug pulled its investors shortly after raising 9,000 Binance tokens worth $2.5 million. Immediately following the confirmation of the theft, the value of the protocol’s native token TTDX, reportedly plunged to near zero. At the time of writing, the social media accounts associated with the protocol appear to have been deleted. The Rug Pull As one report explains, Turtledex, which touted itself as a decentralized storage platform for users, successfully duped users by claiming it could help them....
PRESS RELEASE. London, UK — Centric announced an upcoming fork to the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), after almost 2.5 years on the TRON blockchain. Centric’s tokens, Centric Cash (CNS) and Centric Rise (CNR), will move to the BEP-20 token standard native to the Binance Smart Chain. Binance Smart Chain (BSC) touts “the advantages of the Binance Chain, optimized for ultra-fast trading.” It launched in September of last year, and has become a popular choice for decentralized app (DApp) deployment. “The move to Binance Smart Chain represents the most exciting....