Hack history / 2024 / Hack or exploit
Barley Finance
Hack or exploit on Jan 28, 2024 · Infinite Mint
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$130K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,628
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Barley Finance, a volatility farming protocol, was exploited on its wBARL pod contract that had been deployed just two days prior. The attacker minted over 10% of the total BARL supply in a single transaction, extracting approximately $130K in value. The vulnerability was in the newly deployed pod contract.
Details
- Date
- Jan 28, 2024
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Infinite Mint
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Barley Finance hack, Jan 28, 2024: $130K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht6d6ce18315/ (data as of 2026-10-31).