{"id":83165,"date":"2023-08-16T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83165"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:31:54","slug":"swirllend-developers-carried-out-rug-pull-worth-about-460000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/swirllend-developers-carried-out-rug-pull-worth-about-460000\/","title":{"rendered":"SwirlLend developers carried out rug pull worth about $460,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SwirlLend lending protocol team in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a>-networks Base and Linea carried out a fraudulent scheme, stealing around $460,000 of client deposits. PeckShield researchers said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-16-v-16.52.46.webp\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2023-08-16-v-16.52.46\" class=\"wp-image-213769\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1691719373571186925\">X<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to DeFi Llama data, the total amount of locked funds in the project plummeted from $784,000 to $49.<\/p>\n<p>PeckShield analysts noted that the alleged scammers had already moved 232 ETH and 32,600 USDC totaling $456,500 from Layer-2 networks to the Ethereum mainnet via a bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the scammers laundered almost all the funds through the crypto mixer <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-tornado-cash-mixer-and-why-was-it-sanctioned\">Tornado Cash<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project team also immediately deleted all social media pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experts did not provide details of the incident, but suggested a rug pull scheme in which attackers pump liquidity into a token and then withdraw assets and vanish with the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported in May, the decentralized exchange Swaprum <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/swaprum-dex-team-suspected-of-3m-exit-scam\">was suspected of an exit scam of $3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the developers of the DeFi project Chibi Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chibi-finance-team-on-arbitrum-conducts-a-1-million-rug-pull\">withdrew<\/a> 555 ETH belonging to users worth $1 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The largest rug pull scheme in recent times was the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/defi-project-fintoch-suspected-of-31-6m-fraud\">Fintoch team incident<\/a>, in which clients lost assets totaling $31.6 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SwirlLend lending protocol team in the L2 networks Base and Linea carried out a fraudulent scheme, stealing around $460,000 of client deposits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-83165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83167,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83165\/revisions\/83167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}