Hack history / 2020 / Hack or exploit
Warp Protocol
Hack or exploit on Dec 18, 2020 · Spot Price Manipulation
IN REVIEWSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$7.8M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#356
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
On December 17-18, 2020, an attacker exploited Warp Finance's gameable oracle by flash loaning 2.9M DAI and 344.8K WETH from dYdX to manipulate DAI/Uniswap prices, inflating LP collateral value to borrow 3.86M DAI and 3.9M USDC, draining $7.76 million total.
In review: possible duplicate within one source.
Details
- Date
- Dec 18, 2020
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- Ethereum
- Audit (rekt.news)
- Hacken
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Warp Protocol hack, Dec 18, 2020: $7.8M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htc4f229dc3b/ (data as of 2026-11-01).