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Balancer V1

Aug 30, 2026

$234K
Lost
$234K
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$234K
Unrecovered0% recovered

An attacker first used swaps to reduce the Balancer V1 BPool’s WBTC reserve to near-dust levels, then exploited rounding in joinswapPoolAmountOut. When the function reverse-calculated the WBTC required to mint a caller-specified amount of BPT, 18-decimal fixed-point arithmetic rounded the required input down to 1 satoshi while still minting the full BPT amount.

8 BPT through these underpriced joins and exited the pool proportionally to drain DPI, USDC, WETH, and WBTC.

Target
DeFi
Classification
Token & Share Accounting
Technique
Rounding Error
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Ethereum

Event timeline

  1. Aug 30, 2026
    Exploit executed — $234K drained via rounding error
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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