Banana Gun

2023-05-01

Banana Gun bot launches on Telegram, targeting Ethereum token sniping. Team begins encouraging high priority bribe payments to gain transaction ordering advantage.

2023-08-01

Alleged frontrunning incident during $PENGY token launch. On-chain researchers later allege that wallets connected to the Banana Gun development team sniped ahead of a user who paid $4,000 less in bribes, profiting over $100,000.

2023-09-11

BANANA token launches on Ethereum. Price peaks at approximately $8.70 before crashing 99.7% to $0.02 within three hours due to a smart contract tax routing bug.

2023-09-12

Banana Gun team dumps approximately 950 ETH from treasury wallet to drain the liquidity pool, citing the contract bug. Community alleges potential rug pull; team maintains this was remediation. ChatGPT identifies the bug in seconds after two professional audits missed it.

2023-09-01

Banana Gun relaunches BANANA token on Uniswap v2 at $6.20 open with $2.1 million in locked liquidity. Airdrop and ETH compensation plan distributed: 740 ETH refunded to 591 wallets in the first phase.

2023-10-01

Banana Gun allegedly concludes exclusive order flow arrangement with Titan Builder. Researchers later allege this arrangement enabled Titan to grow from under 1% to over 40% of Ethereum block production, while diverting millions in user bribe payments.

2024-09-19

Banana Gun Telegram oracle exploit. Attacker exploits a vulnerability in the bot's Telegram message oracle, manually draining ETH from 11 experienced traders' wallets. Estimated loss: $3 million. Both EVM and Solana bots taken offline.

2024-09-25

Banana Gun confirms full $3 million reimbursement to all 11 exploit victims from the project treasury. No BANANA tokens sold to fund repayments. Security Alliance engaged for third-party audit. 2FA and two-hour transfer delays implemented.