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Abracadabra Spell

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Summary

Abracadabra.money is a multi-chain DeFi lending protocol that allows users to mint the MIM (Magic Internet Money) USD-pegged stablecoin using interest-bearing tokens as collateral. The protocol has been compromised three times since January 2024, losing a combined total of over $21 million, and its founding ecosystem was shaken in January 2022 when co-founder Daniele Sestagalli's associate — Wonderland's pseudonymous treasury manager known as 0xSifu — was publicly identified as Michael Patryn, a convicted felon and co-founder of the fraudulent exchange QuadrigaCX. The SPELL token has declined approximately 99.5% from its November 2021 all-time high, and the protocol's total value locked has collapsed from over $776 million to under $30 million.

Connected Entities

15 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
□QuadrigaCX0□Abracadabra Spell□Ethereum64□Fantom (Sonic Labs)□Magic Internet Money□QuadrigaCX / Gerald Cotten□Arbitrum□Binance□Terra/Luna□luna□Abracadabra Money□ZachXBT
Protocols
⌂Popsicle Finance12⌂Anchor Protocol⌂Curve Finance
Relationships
  • Magic Internet Money→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
  • Magic Internet Money→mentioned with→QuadrigaCX(80%)
  • Magic Internet Money→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
  • Magic Internet Money→mentioned with→Arbitrum(70%)
  • Abracadabra Money→mentioned with→QuadrigaCX(75%)
  • Abracadabra Money→mentioned with→ZachXBT(65%)
  • Abracadabra Money→mentioned with→Ethereum(65%)
  • Abracadabra Money→mentioned with→Arbitrum(65%)
  • ZachXBT→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
  • ZachXBT→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
  • + 46 more
Also appears in
QuadrigaCX·0UwuLend·8Bitfinex / Tether·28Abracadabra Finance (MIM Stablecoin)·22Ethereum·64Magic Internet Money·22Abracadabra Money·28Lendf.me·30Levyathan·18Jump Trading·42+ 50 more

Connected Through

14 shared actors · 612 investigations

Distinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.

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Timeline(9 events)

November 2021

Abracadabra.money launches; SPELL token reaches all-time high of approximately $0.035.

15 January 2022

Wonderland (Frog Nation) records near all-time high TVL of approximately $776 million.

27 January 2022

ZachXBT publicly reveals that 0xSifu, Wonderland's pseudonymous CFO/treasury manager, is Michael Patryn — convicted felon and QuadrigaCX co-founder. Daniele Sestagalli admits he knew Patryn's real identity for approximately one month prior to the disclosure.

29 January 2022

Wonderland DAO votes 88% in favor of removing Sifu as treasury manager; a second vote elects to continue protocol operations rather than unwind.

27 January 2022

SPELL, TIME, and ICE tokens crash on news of the Sifu scandal; approximately $130 million in MIM is dumped by a single wallet within days.

May 2022

Terra/LUNA ecosystem collapses. Abracadabra's Degenbox strategy — which created recursive MIM-UST leverage loops — suffers significant contagion losses. MIM experiences depeg pressure.

30 January 2024

First major exploit: rounding precision bug in Cauldron V3/V4 contracts allows attacker to drain approximately $6.5 million in ETH and MIM. MIM briefly depegs to $0.76.

March 2025

Second major exploit: attacker drains approximately $13 million (6,262 ETH) via state-tracking flaw in GMX V2 Cauldron integration using a multi-step self-liquidation attack.

4 October 2025

Third major exploit: logic error in deprecated PrivilegedCauldronV4 cook() function allows attacker to bypass solvency checks and steal approximately 1,793,766 MIM and 395 ETH (~$1.8 million). Funds laundered via Tornado Cash. PeckShield subsequently alleged to have missed the vulnerability in a prior audit.

Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain20 Wayback Archivessrc:defillama

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 20 of 23 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:35 AM

last updated: 8/30/2026, 8:30:06 PM

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