DeFiAi Rug Pull

Reported loss $4.2M
Rugpull

What happened

DeFiAi protocol was rugged by using a backdoor in the farm contract with a profit of more than 4M $USD.

DeFiAI is a yield aggregator and the first DEX run by AI. The project was rugpulled for 4,173,646 $USD. The funds were drained from the project's contract with unverified source code and distributed between 10 EOA addresses and then transferred through FixedFloat and MexcGlobal.

The project announced on Twitter that they were "hacked" and will rebase the remaining funds and reopen the project's smart contracts.

Unverified contract with malicious logic:

Address 0x042a…f722

Withdraw example:

Tx 0x3946…48ce

Rug pull TXs were selected by Mist:

Source

Protocol details

Classification Yield Aggregator
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract DFAI
Protocol links Website @DeFiAiOfficial

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