Cryptocurrency
Tweet by Banana Gun
Primary Source ↗Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
The team behind Banana Gun, a Telegram bot to help “snipe” token launches, launched a token associated with the project on September 11. Only hours later, they announced in a tweet that they’d uncovered a bug in their smart contract that meant that when people sold tokens, the 4% tax that was meant to go to the project was also kept in individuals’ wallets.The team wrote in an announcement that they had no choice but to sell the treasury wallet to drain the liquidity pool, which is locked to… well, stop the project team from draining the project and rug-pulling. At the time of announcement, the project team had around 950 ETH (~$1.5 million) in the treasury wallet.Some pointed out that they could simply set the tax to 0% and carry on without the hefty sales tax, but that didn’t seem to appeal to the project’s creators. Some also speculated that the team might just take the money and run after draining the LP.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Exit scam / rug pull
- Vendor / Product
- Banana Gun bot flubbed token launch
Timeline
- 2023-09-11 Breach occurred
- 2023-09-11 Publicly disclosed