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Aperture LM

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Summary

Aperture LM (also marketed as Aperture Finance) is a multi-chain DeFi liquidity management protocol that launched in 2022 and raised $12 million at a reported $250 million valuation. On January 25, 2026, the protocol suffered a critical smart contract exploit due to insufficient input validation in its V3 and V4 helper modules, resulting in $3.67 million stolen from Aperture directly and contributing to a combined ~$17 million loss across a coordinated attack that also hit SwapNet. Stolen funds were laundered through Tornado Cash, no public compensation plan for affected users has been confirmed, and the protocol's closed-source contract architecture was identified as a compounding risk factor that hindered independent security review.

Connected Entities

7 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
□Ethereum64□Aperture LM□Arbitrum□Binance□Mantle□ZachXBT
Protocols
⌂Uniswap
Relationships
  • Mantle→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
  • ZachXBT→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
  • ZachXBT→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
  • Aperture LM→mentioned with→Uniswap(70%)
  • Aperture LM→mentioned with→Mantle(70%)
  • Binance→mentioned with→Ethereum(65%)
  • Aperture LM→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
  • Aperture LM→mentioned with→Arbitrum(70%)
  • Aperture LM→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
  • Uniswap→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
  • + 4 more
Also appears in
Ethereum·64Lendf.me·30Levyathan·18Jump Trading·42StableMagnet·2Shibarium·28Bankr·18Nexera·32Sky (MakerDAO)·51BearnFi·12+ 50 more

Connected Through

6 shared actors · 570 investigations

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

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Timeline(13 events)

2022

Aperture Finance founded; initial audit of Terra DNS module by Oak Security completed March 2022.

August 2022

Oak Security/Solidified audit of Avalanche PDN Strategies completed September 2022.

8 May 2023

First Narya.ai audit of UniV3 automation contracts completed.

3 July 2023

Second Narya.ai audit of UniV3 automation contracts completed.

29 September 2023

Veridise audit of UniV3 fork deployment completed — last documented audit on record.

31 May 2024

APTR token officially launched on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Mantle Network.

10 June 2024

APTR token reaches all-time high of approximately $0.12497.

31 December 2025

APTR token ends 2025 down approximately 99.25% year-over-year, trading near $0.00005.

25 January 2026

Arbitrary-call vulnerability in Aperture Finance V3/V4 helper module exploited across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB Chain; $3.67 million stolen. Same attacker simultaneously exploits SwapNet for ~$13.4 million; combined losses reach ~$17 million. Exploit first flagged by PeckShield.

25 January 2026

Aperture Finance halts frontend functions, issues emergency advisory urging users to revoke approvals for contract 0xD83d960deBEC397fB149b51F8F37DD3B5CFA8913.

27 January 2026

Attacker deposits approximately 1,242.7 ETH (~$2.4 million) into Tornado Cash in structured batches. AMLBot publishes initial on-chain findings.

28 January 2026

BlockSec publishes detailed technical analysis of both the Aperture Finance and SwapNet exploits, attributing root cause to insufficient input validation in closed-source contracts.

3 February 2026

AMLBot publishes full on-chain forensic breakdown; secondary attacker linked to Li.Fi/Jumper Exchange exploiter network.

Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain13 Wayback Archivessrc:defillama

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 13 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:19 AM

last updated: 8/29/2026, 6:16:45 PM

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