Hack history / 2023 / Rug pull
Bald
Rug pull on Jul 31, 2023 · Liquidity Rug
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$25.6M
sources: $23M to $25.6M
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#176
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On 31 July 2023 the anonymous deployer of the BALD memecoin on Base removed the two-sided liquidity provided two days after launch, crashing the token roughly 90%.
Details
- Date
- Jul 31, 2023
- Kind
- Rug pull
- Method
- Liquidity Rug
- How in
- Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Base, Ethereum
Related incidents
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Bald rug pull, Jul 31, 2023: $25.6M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht466c171efa/ (data as of 2026-10-31).