Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Nerve
Hack or exploit on Nov 14, 2021 · Swap Logic Flaw
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$537K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,128
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Attacker exploited the same MetaPool vulnerability in Nerve Finance that previously affected Synapse Bridge. Using flash loan attacks on fUSDT and UST MetaPools, the attacker exhausted pool liquidity by exploiting the inconsistent calculation of LP token value between swap and swapUnderlying functions.
Details
- Date
- Nov 14, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Swap Logic Flaw
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Nerve hack, Nov 14, 2021: $537K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht749942de3b/ (data as of 2026-10-31).