Float Protocol Hack

TOTAL LOST $1.4M
Medium Oracle Manipulation & Price Manipulation ethereum

What happened

Float Protocol's pool was exploited via Oracle Manipulation which led to a loss of 1,440,724 $USD.

Float Protocol is a staking and earning platform running on the Ethereum chain. The protocol's Rari 90 pool was exploited via Oracle Manipulation, which allowed the attacker to gain 1,440,724 $USD worth of assets including $FRAX, $FEI, and $DAI. The attack started with 47 $ETH withdrawn from TornadoCash and then used to buy $FLOAT tokens from the UniV3 pool.

The action led to the $FLOAT price being higher than usual, and then Rari 90 pool that uses UniV3 pool as an oracle was exploited. The exploiter returned 250,000 $USDC to the protocol's multisig wallet. The rest of the stolen funds were transferred through TornadoCash.

Attacker address:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xa2ce300c…61a0e5

Malicious transactions:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x71872e7b…f0fcfe

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x40db7bd8…827248

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf09c4519…5ecacf

Malicious contract:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x6ceefd33…d9ade0

Return transaction:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x560c9362…e7bb0e

Case & protocol details

Classification Yield Aggregator / Oracle Manipulation
Protocol Type Yield
Affected asset / contract FLOAT
Smart Contract Language Solidity
Official Website floatprotocol.com/
Protocol Twitter/X @FloatProtocol

Security review history

Funds Recovery

17.3%

Recovered

$250K

Net Loss

$1,191,479

Evidence & learning

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