Leaderboard
931All-time rank
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
- Aug 30, 2026Exploit executed — $234K drained via rounding error
- Attributed to Unknown
- Recovery status Unrecovered 0%
