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Raydium Exploit Drains $1.34M From Deprecated Solana Pools

Exploiting a flawed LP‑mint validation in legacy AMM V3 emptied five deprecated pools, triggering a treasury-backed reimbursement and an urgent security review.

Overview

  • Raydium disclosed on Wednesday that an attacker removed about $1.34 million from five legacy AMM V3 liquidity pools that had been deprecated in 2021.
  • On‑chain investigators say the theft included roughly 150,177 RAY, 5,603 SOL, and about 893,700 USDC and that the exploiter used a fake LP mint to bypass proportion checks.
  • Security firms traced initial funding for the exploit to KuCoin and reported that bridged funds moved to Ethereum with about 810 ETH sent into Tornado Cash and 7 ETH to FixedFloat.
  • Raydium says the flaw was a self-contained logic bug rather than a key or authority compromise and has identified the exploiter's Solana address as 4WnPebowR4HHfumvNPaDjG6Pa5Hi1jxLm6xmmBq33QVk.
  • The protocol pledged full reimbursement from its treasury and started a comprehensive mainnet security review, underscoring the risks that dormant on‑chain contracts pose to DeFi users and projects.