AutoShark Finance
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AutoShark Finance was a Binance Smart Chain-based yield optimizer and AMM that suffered two separate economic exploits in 2021, resulting in total losses exceeding $1.4 million in BNB across its SHARK and JAWS tokens. The protocol underwent multiple failed recovery attempts — including token migrations from SHARK to JAWS and a new reserve-currency token ATLAS — before formally shutting down in March 2022 after all three tokens had lost 97–99.75% of their peak value. AutoShark has been flagged by ZachXBT in the context of the wider BSC flash loan attack wave that targeted PancakeBunny forks.
Connected Entities
6 entities · 60 linked investigations- ZachXBT→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
- PancakeBunny→mentioned with→Binance(80%)
- AutoShark Finance→mentioned with→PancakeBunny(70%)
- AutoShark Finance→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
- AutoShark Finance→mentioned with→Chainlink(60%)
- AutoShark Finance→mentioned with→Binance(70%)
Timeline(9 events)
May 2021
AutoShark Finance launches on Binance Smart Chain as a PancakeBunny fork, offering yield optimization vaults and swap-mining rewards via the SHARK token.
AutoShark Medium19 May 2021
PancakeBunny, the protocol AutoShark forked, suffers a major flash loan exploit. AutoShark publishes a blog post criticizing PancakeBunny's vulnerability. The SHARK contract has the same flaw.
AutoShark Medium — How PancakeBunny Got Compromised25 May 2021
Flash loan attack drains AutoShark SHARK token. Attacker mints 100 million SHARK tokens and extracts approximately 2,500 BNB (~$822,800). SHARK price collapses from $1.20 to $0.01. AutoShark is the third PancakeBunny fork exploited within a week.
How AutoShark Got Economically Exploited — AutoShark MediumJune 2021
AutoShark resumes operations after patching the oracle vulnerability and migrating to the new JAWS token to compensate SHARK holders.
AutoShark Medium2 October 2021
Swap mining exploit drains approximately 1,388 BNB (~$581,000) via flash loan manipulation of FINS token reward pool. Attacker executes hundreds of back-and-forth swaps to collect outsized fee rebates.
Quadriga Initiative Case Study29 October 2021
Second major 2021 attack: economic exploit on JAWS-BNB vault drains approximately 4,348.5 BNB. Attacker manipulates NOVA token price to inflate JAWS minting rewards. AutoShark suspends all JAWS minters.
Post Mortem Review on Economic Attack — AutoShark Medium21 November 2021
AutoShark launches ATLAS token at $10 per token as part of the Atlantis Initiative decentralized reserve currency platform.
Atlantis Initiative Announced — Binance Chain NewsDecember 2021
ATLAS token collapses following alleged insider dumping by early-access investors. All three AutoShark tokens (JAWS, FINS, ATLAS) are in severe decline.
AutoShark Bids Adieu — Binance Chain News4 March 2022
AutoShark formally announces shutdown. ATLAS is down 97%, JAWS down 99.5%, FINS down 99.75% from respective all-time highs. Team outlines residual BNB distributions and states no future projects are planned.
End of an Era — AutoShark MediumDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 decisions). 7 of 12 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-5
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:57 AM
last updated: 11/4/2026, 12:08:36 AM
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