DEUS Finance
Last changed 2026-10-10 · Score recalculated — Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 10 → 53. Problems weighed by who is responsible: incidents the subject suffered −9.6, concerns that are not fraud −3.2, problems around the subject, caused by others −0.8; legitimacy credit long-running +2. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -3.2 |
| Incidents it suffered (e.g. hacks) | -9.6 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -0.8 |
| Long-running | +2 |
| Sum | 53 |
Score: 53/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Summary
DEUS Finance is a decentralized derivatives and synthetic asset protocol built primarily on Fantom, co-founded by Lafayette Tabor and Mohammad Abrishami. The protocol suffered three separate security exploits between March 2022 and May 2023, resulting in combined losses exceeding $22 million across flash loan oracle attacks and a smart contract implementation flaw, with stolen funds routed through Tornado Cash in the 2022 incidents. Repeated security failures across distinct vulnerability classes raise severe concerns about the protocol's security practices and long-term viability.
Connected Entities
7 entities · 60 linked investigations- Yearn Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Fantom (Sonic Labs)→mentioned with→Multichain(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Arbitrum(70%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Multichain(75%)
- DEUS DAO→mentioned with→Fantom (Sonic Labs)(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Multichain→mentioned with→Fantom (Sonic Labs)(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→Yearn Finance(80%)
- DEUS Finance→mentioned with→DEUS DAO(80%)
- Fantom (Sonic Labs)→mentioned with→Yearn Finance(80%)
- + 7 more
Timeline(6 events)
15 March 2022
First exploit: Flash loan attack manipulates Muon oracle on Fantom via USDC/DEI pool price data; approximately $3 million stolen (200,000 DAI and 1,101.8 ETH). Funds laundered through Tornado Cash.
15 March 2022
Lafayette Tabor deactivates affected contracts and pledges reimbursement via smart contract funded by personal and DAO reserves.
28 April 2022
Second exploit: A second flash loan oracle manipulation attack on Fantom drains approximately $13.4 million. Attacker borrows $143 million in a flash loan, artificially inflates DEI price, borrows additional capital against inflated collateral. Tx hash: 0x39825ff84b44d9c9983b4cff464d4746d1ae5432977b9a65a92ab47edac9c9b5. Funds bridged to Ethereum and laundered via Tornado Cash.
28 April 2022
DEUS token price drops approximately 16.5% within 24 hours. Team states loss falls on protocol, not individual users; pauses DEI lending.
5 May 2023
Third exploit: A burnFrom parameter reversal bug in the DEI stablecoin contract is exploited across Arbitrum (~$5M), BNB Smart Chain (~$1.3M), and Ethereum (~$135K), totaling approximately $6.38–$6.5 million. DEI depegs to approximately $0.20.
7 May 2023
DEUS Finance announces partial white-hat recovery of approximately 5.5 million out of 7 million DEI-equivalent tokens. Recovered funds placed in a 2/3 multisig managed by @lafachief and Yearn Finance contributors. All affected contracts paused and subsequently destroyed.
Decision Log
- slot 455369162 · hash EM2TpnGBLr242LcKndntiCD1ivQZ9rLs1fTQ7NoSKjw5
- slot 421077028 · hash 2Syur4EB45dpDWS5oqxxvMbNVjVgMXXeHoxeo5U4CUis
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (2 decisions). 13 of 18 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:49 AM
last updated: 10/10/2026, 6:49:09 PM
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