Hack history / 2021 / Hack or exploit
Dot.Finance
Hack or exploit on Aug 25, 2021 · Spot Price Manipulation
SOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 2 SOURCES
Lost
$430K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,203
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On August 25, 2021, Dot.Finance on BSC was exploited via a flash loan attack that manipulated the VaultPinkBNB contract's token pricing. The attacker injected Cake tokens to inflate the performanceFee parameter, enabling the mintFor function to create excessive pink tokens worth approximately $429.7K.
Details
- Date
- Aug 25, 2021
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain, Polkadot
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Dot.Finance hack, Aug 25, 2021: $430K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht79120e7b2c/ (data as of 2026-10-31).