Hack history / 2023 / Hack or exploit
Uwerx
Hack or exploit on Aug 2, 2023 · Spot Price Manipulation
ATTACK TX CONFIRMED ON CHAINSOURCES AGREE ON DATE AND LOSS · 4 SOURCES
Lost
$324K
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#1,290
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
Uwerx was exploited on August 2, 2023 for $327,000 (176 ETH). Attacker flash-loaned 20,000 ETH, swapped for WERX tokens, dumped them into Uniswap pool, then used the skim() function with a specific address. The 1% burn mechanism on transfers created a price imbalance the attacker arbitraged for profit.
Details
- Date
- Aug 2, 2023
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- Spot Price Manipulation
- How in
- Price, oracle and governance
- Target
- Other
- Chains
- Ethereum
Related incidents
Jimbos Protocol 2023 · Hack or exploit · $7.5M
ParaSpace Lending V1 2023 · Hack or exploit · $5M
Platypus Finance 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2.1M
Zunami Protocol 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2.1M
Balancer V2 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2M
ParaSpace Lending V1 2023 · Hack or exploit · $5M
Platypus Finance 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2.1M
Zunami Protocol 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2.1M
Balancer V2 2023 · Hack or exploit · $2M
Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Uwerx hack, Aug 2, 2023: $324K lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/hte3e9c00fe5/ (data as of 2026-10-31).