Hack history / 2026 / Hack or exploit
AlpsCon AI Trade Hub
Hack or exploit on Oct 18, 2026 · Incorrect Share Accounting
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 3 SOURCES
Lost
$153K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,572
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
AlpsCon AI Trade Hub’s V7–V9 contracts incorrectly applied accumulated historical profit-per-share values to balances imported from preceding versions, allowing newly deposited funds to claim rewards accrued before the deposits existed. The attacker used a flash loan to create temporary ALPS service credits and exploited the accounting flaw to extract USDC. The attack was facilitated by an authorization whitelist containing a publicly known Hardhat test account, which the attacker used through EIP-7702 delegation
Details
- Date
- Oct 18, 2026
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Incorrect Share Accounting
- How in
- Smart contract bug
- Target
- DeFi protocol
- Chains
- BNB Chain
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "AlpsCon AI Trade Hub hack, Oct 18, 2026: $153K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/htd83eeef467/ (data as of 2026-10-31).