Aquifer AMM
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Aquifer is a Solana-based automated market maker that lost approximately $2.47-2.5 million in tokens on August 31, 2026, when an attacker drained 18 of its 45 token vaults in roughly 40 minutes. Reports disagree on the root cause, with some outlets citing a compromised wallet and an on-chain investigation attributing the loss to a program that accepted forged balance data without verifying the source. Aquifer offered the attacker a 20% whitehat bounty for returning funds by September 3, 2026; no public source has confirmed any funds were returned, and the project has not published a technical post-mortem.
Connected Entities
10 entities · 60 linked investigations- Term Labs→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Aquifer AMM→mentioned with→Solana(70%)
- Aquifer AMM→mentioned with→Allbridge(60%)
- Aquifer AMM→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Aquifer AMM→mentioned with→Jupiter Exchange(60%)
- Aquifer AMM→mentioned with→Phemex(60%)
- 8af8Rn…yjox→mentioned with→Aquifer (Solana AMM)(50%)
- 7fTe9p…Rk7J→mentioned with→Aquifer (Solana AMM)(50%)
- Allbridge→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
- Allbridge→mentioned with→Solana(70%)
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Timeline(4 events)
31 August 2026
Attacker drains approximately $2.47-2.5 million from 18 of Aquifer's 45 token vaults in 212 transactions over roughly 40 minutes.
KuCoin / BitqueryAugust 2026
Aquifer's Solana upgrade authority posts an on-chain whitehat bounty offer addressed to the attacker's identified wallets.
Capwolf / BitquerySeptember 2026
Crypto news outlets, including crypto.news (citing Defimon) and Bitquery, publish initial and on-chain analysis of the exploit; Bitquery traces roughly 1,000.8 ETH held in a single address linked to the attacker.
crypto.news / BitquerySeptember 2026
Deadline for Aquifer's whitehat bounty offer passes; no public source confirms the attacker returned funds.
Capwolf / BitqueryDecision Log
- slot 447647160 · hash DgqnSXuoC9MmCpwUkAFjUhWnbSQ2vS4ZnTqEb4G5ndWC
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 0 of 8 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 9/16/2026, 11:26:15 PM
last updated: 10/27/2026, 12:16:48 AM
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