5 entries tagged “ethereum”.
An Ethereum yield aggregator (a Harvest/Yearn clone) that rug-pulled ~$10.8M (some estimates ~$12.5M) in Dec 2020 by swapping audited 'Strategy' contracts for malicious ones via an unmonitored timelock. CP3R fell ~99% and the team vanished.
An OlympusDAO-style project with no website or whitepaper and pseudonymous developers that raised ~13,556 ETH (~$60M) in October 2021. About 20 hours later all liquidity was withdrawn and the token fell to zero — a rug pull.
Phishing campaign distributing a counterfeit 'Ledger Live' update that exfiltrates seed phrases.
ZKasino ran a 'bridge-to-earn' campaign that, per reporting, collected about 10,515 ETH (~$33M). At launch the project converted deposits into its native ZKAS token instead of returning ETH and moved funds to a team multisig and into Lido. The event was widely reported as a rug pull.
A DeFi yield farm that drained its liquidity pool 11 days after launch, taking an estimated $4.2M from depositors.