YieldRobot Rug Pull

Reported loss $2.1M
Rugpull

What happened

The Yield Robot contract on the Binance Smart Chain was rug pulled with a profit worth $2.1M USD.

The Yield Robot contract on the Binance Smart Chain was drained of $2.1 million on January 17th, 2023. The project team initially announced it was exploited, but further investigation shows evidence of an exit scam. The incident was possible due to a change in the signer wallet, which allowed the attacker to redeem a coupon that would otherwise have been rejected.

The attacker used the coupon system to claim a coupon worth $2.1 million and then transferred the reward balance to their wallet. The Yield Robot deployer later used the wallet to create an unverified contract, which was likely a copy of the original contract, but with the deposit address changed to the attacker's wallet. New deposits were made, but later reverted back to the original deposit wallet.

Set signer TX:

Tx 0x31bf…6cab

Rug TX:

Tx 0xb66c…95ed

Scammer address:

Address 0x8f2d…4a4a

Protocol details

Classification Yield Aggregator
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Protocol links @yieldrobot

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