79thVault
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anchored·5ZMHKk…uVofSummary
79thVault is a BNB Smart Chain DeFi project behind the 79AU token. On October 7, 2026, its main PancakeSwap trading pool was drained of an estimated $12.5-14.35 million after a wallet holding a privileged OPERATOR_ROLE permission moved tokens out of the pool without depositing equivalent value, bypassing normal automated-market-maker mechanics. The project said on October 9, 2026 that the attacker had returned 15,000 BNB (about $11 million, roughly 84-92% depending on which total loss figure is used), leaving a disputed unrecovered balance; the attacker's identity and the exact cause of the key exposure remain unconfirmed.
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Timeline(4 events)
2026
79th Vault is reported to have launched as a DeFi platform on BNB Smart Chain, per a community wiki entry; no primary source identified in this investigation confirms a specific founding date or founding team.
IQ.wikiOctober 2026
An operator-controlled wallet used a privileged OPERATOR_ROLE function to pull approximately 2.01 million 79AU tokens from the PancakeSwap 79AU/USDT pool across seven transactions, selling them back into the pool in roughly 95 swaps and reducing USDT reserves from about $15.2 million to roughly $3.9 million.
CryptopolitanOctober 2026
CryptoSlate and TokenPost reported a revised loss estimate of $14.35 million (versus an initial $12.5 million) after a Bitquery investigation identified a second seller wallet; read-only tests reportedly showed two wallets could still move roughly 95% of the pool's remaining 79AU.
CryptoSlateOctober 2026
The attacker returned 15,000 BNB (approximately $11 million) to a 79thVault team-designated wallet, which the project described as roughly 92% of the amount it said was taken; a competing analysis cited by TokenPost put the recovered share closer to 84% of total proceeds.
TokenPostDecision Log
- slot 454986676 · hash D2snJdArdoj3mEy8r9gPGgmhG6NZQKoyJUVDgY8WWxL9
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 7 of 9 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 10/9/2026, 8:10:38 PM
last updated: 10/9/2026, 8:10:39 PM
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