AnubisDAO
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AnubisDAO was a pseudonymous, canine-themed OlympusDAO fork that raised roughly $60 million in ETH within about 20 hours of opening a 24-hour Copper Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool for its ANKH token on October 28, 2021. Before the sale closed, the wallet controlling the pool drained it to an external address, leaving investors with worthless ANKH; the developer Beerus claimed a phishing compromise, which co-founder 0xSisyphus disputed, and on-chain investigator ZachXBT later named Beerus and an associate, Ersan, as the likely culprits as the funds were laundered through Tornado Cash in 2022–2023. No charges, arrests or investor recovery have been reported.
Connected Entities
9 entities · 60 linked investigations- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
- ZachXBT→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Balancer→mentioned with→Polygon(60%)
- Balancer→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- OlympusDAO→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→Polygon(65%)
- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→Balancer(60%)
- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→OlympusDAO(60%)
- AnubisDAO→mentioned with→Dogecoin(60%)
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Timeline(15 events)
March 2021
Beerus's @beerus Twitter account posts the address 0x9fc53c75046900d1f58209f50f534852ae9f912a, which later received the drained funds; this has been cited as evidence of premeditation.
October 2021
AnubisDAO launches a 24-hour Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool on Copper selling the ANKH token, with no website, white paper, audited contracts or named team, and raises about $60M within roughly 20 hours (13,556 WETH or 13,597 ETH, depending on the report).
decrypt.coOctober 2021
About 20 hours into the sale, roughly four hours before the scheduled close, 13,556.36 ETH (~$60M) is drained from the pool by the wallet that deployed and controlled the LBP, leaving ANKH with no liquid market.
cryptobriefing.comOctober 2021
0xSisyphus says the critical mistake was giving one developer, Beerus, full control of the pool and disputes Beerus's claim that his keys were phished; Copper confirms its platform was not exploited.
protos.comOctober 2021
0xSisyphus offers a 1,000 ETH reward for information leading to recovery and says US law enforcement (reportedly Homeland Security Investigations) and Hong Kong police have been contacted.
cryptoslate.comOctober 2021
Beerus files a police report with Hong Kong police and surrenders a personal computer as evidence.
cryptoslate.comNovember 2021
The Crypto Times reports that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions, including the US and Hong Kong, has begun preliminary inquiries.
cryptotimes.ioJune 2022
The Block reports AnubisDAO funds moving for the first time, about eight months after the rug pull, with 1,018 ETH sent through Tornado Cash.
theblock.coJuly 2022
1,018 ETH (~$1.18M) from wallets linked to the drain is laundered through Tornado Cash in 100 ETH tranches on July 15–16, 2022, per another report.
crypto.newsAugust 2022
The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions Tornado Cash, the mixer used to launder part of the AnubisDAO funds.
home.treasury.govApril 2023
Further laundering: batches worth about $5.5M and $5.9M move and are bridged to Polygon.
fxstreet.comJuly 2023
Large-scale Tornado Cash laundering resumes in 100 ETH increments, at a time when the 13,556 ETH is worth about $26M; the AnubisDAO exploiter becomes the largest ETH depositor to Tornado Cash in 2023.
cointelegraph.comJuly 2023
ZachXBT publishes an on-chain thread naming Beerus (bsl.eth) and Ersan (0x51da686c7a2f973ad11fafed6ce9a3ffc020349f) as the most likely culprits and alleging Ersan's link to CSGORoll.
threadreaderapp.comOctober 2023
NFT Ethics alleges that 0xSisyphus is Kevin Pawlak, former Head of Ventures at OpenSea; OpenSea says it is unaware of any involvement.
cointelegraph.comOctober 2023
ZachXBT disputes the NFT Ethics thread as lacking on-chain evidence and reiterates that Beerus and Ersan are the primary suspects.
nftnewstoday.comDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 decisions). 25 of 26 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:53 AM
last updated: 10/27/2026, 6:44:49 AM
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