Elastic Staking Hack

TOTAL LOST $209K
Low Rugpull ethereum

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

Classification Yield Aggregator
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract EStake
Official Website estake.io/
Protocol Twitter/X @ElasticStake

Evidence & learning

Sources and on-chain records

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