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Sonne Finance

May 15, 2024

$20.0M
Lost
$20.0M
Recovered
$0
Net loss
$20.0M
Unrecovered0% recovered

On May 15, 2024, Sonne Finance on Optimism was exploited for $20M through a donation attack. Market setup was split into separate timelock transactions, allowing the attacker to control execution order and manipulate collateral factors in a newly-created market before protective guards were applied.

How the exploit worked

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Precision loss.

Lost: $20M

Source: DeFiHackLabs (SunWeb3Sec)

Target
DeFi
Classification
Token & Share Accounting
Technique
Donation Attack
Attribution
Unknown
Chains
Optimism

Event timeline

  1. May 15, 2024
    Exploit executed — $20.0M drained via donation attack
  2. Attributed to Unknown
  3. Recovery status Unrecovered 0%

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