Hack history / 2021 / Rug pull

Turtle Dex

Rug pull on Mar 20, 2021 · Liquidity Rug

SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES

Lost

$2.5M

dollars at the time

Returned

none listed

as the sources state it

Rank

#638

among thefts by dollars lost

What happened

TurtleDex on BSC executed a coordinated rugpull on March 19-20, 2021 days after raising 9K BNB (~$2.5M). Team drained liquidity from PancakeSwap and Ape Swap pools, converted to ETH, and withdrew via Binance.

Details

Date: Mar 20, 2021
Kind: Rug pull
Method: Liquidity Rug
How in: Insiders: rug pulls, frauds, collapses
Target: DeFi protocol
Chains: BNB Chain

Reported by

DefiLlama ↗
SlowMist Hacked ↗
Web3 Is Going Great ↗

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Cite this page

SwanBluechip, "Turtle Dex rug pull, Mar 20, 2021: $2.5M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht74491b0d60/ (data as of 2026-10-31).

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