Elastic Staking Hack
What happened
The contract deployer minted tokens onto his wallet:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5f767b81…783b15
The contract deployer airdropped tokens to the community members at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe1faff1c…2631e3
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x563523b4…92fd64
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc9c4771b…40ed6c
When the liquidity was raised enough, the contract deployer invoked bytecode smart contract through the 0x8a4995ae method 3 times to mint additional tokens onto his wallet:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xd08a5d8a…6b491e
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xdd255f83…d6a85d
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb0f8eedc…0cd4c5
The minted tokens were sold by the contract deployer at:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb5a83eed…9aa32e
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5e315dee…2cb124
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb0f7e4d5…c8e77f
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc8e7050c…78e8ca
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
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