Audit log

Every state-changing event for Hope Finance: moderation decisions on community submissions, plus corrections and updates from the news pipeline. URL-based decisions carry three independent witnesses — the original source, an Internet Archive snapshot taken at submission time, and a Solana memo signed by our publicly-disclosed publisher key.

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   2026-05-28 16:12:41Z
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Hope Finance exploit results in $2M stolen from users' funds","type":"news_article","url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/hope-finance-exploit-results-in-2m-stolen-from-users-funds"},{"credibility":2,"name":"CertiK: Hope Finance","type":"research","url":"https://www.certik.com/resources/blog/hope-finance"},{"credibility":2,"name":"CryptoPotato: Largest Exit Scam on Arbitrum — Hope Finance Drained for $2M","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptopotato.com/largest-exit-scam-on-arbitrum-hope-finance-drained-for-2m/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"CoinCu News: Hope Finance Appears Rug Pull, Scammers Transferred $1.86 Million ETH To Tornado Cash","type":"news_article","url":"https://coincu.com/168666-hope-finance-appears-rug-pull/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"CryptoSlate: DeFi protocol Hope Finance hacked for $2M at launch","type":"news_article","url":"https://cryptoslate.com/defi-protocol-hope-finance-hacked-for-2m-at-launch/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Crypto.news: Scammer steals $2m user funds from Hope Finance","type":"news_article","url":"https://crypto.news/scammer-steals-2m-user-funds-from-hope-finance/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"BlockchainReporter: DeFi Protocol Hope Finance Loses $2M In Hack","type":"news_article","url":"https://blockchainreporter.net/defi-protocol-hope-finance-loses-2m-in-hack-as-scammer-claims-ownership-of-entire-genesis-protocol/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"DeFi Planet: Hope Finance Exploit Results in $2 Million Loss of User Funds","type":"news_article","url":"https://defi-planet.com/2023/02/hope-finance-exploit-results-in-2-million-loss-of-user-funds/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Hope Finance GitBook Documentation","type":"official","url":"https://hopefinance.gitbook.io/hope-finance/"}],"summary":"Hope Finance was an Arbitrum-based DeFi protocol that launched in January 2023, positioning itself around an algorithmic stablecoin pegged to 0.001 ETH. On February 20, 2023 — the same day the platform went live — approximately $2 million (1,095 ETH) was drained from its Genesis Rewards Pool in what blockchain security firms CertiK and PeckShield assessed as an insider-orchestrated exit scam, making it the largest exit scam recorded on Arbitrum at that time. Stolen funds were bridged to Ethereum and routed through Tornado Cash; the protocol's website subsequently went offline and the team became unreachable.","timeline":[{"date":"2023-01-01","event":"Hope Finance Twitter account created; project announced plans for an algorithmic stablecoin (HOPE token) pegged to 0.001 ETH on Arbitrum.","source":"CoinTelegraph","source_url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/hope-finance-exploit-results-in-2m-stolen-from-users-funds"},{"date":"2023-02-01","event":"Cognitos completes smart contract audit of Hope Finance, flagging reentrancy risks and an incorrect modifier but marking the contract as having passed the audit.","source":"CoinCu News","source_url":"https://coincu.com/168666-hope-finance-appears-rug-pull/"},{"date":"2023-02-20","event":"Hope Finance launches on Arbitrum. On the same day, the Genesis Rewards Pool is drained of approximately $2 million (1,095 ETH) via a fake router contract approved by the project's own multisig signers.","source":"CryptoPotato","source_url":"https://cryptopotato.com/largest-exit-scam-on-arbitrum-hope-finance-drained-for-2m/"},{"date":"2023-02-20","event":"Stolen funds bridged from Arbitrum to Ethereum via CelrBridge and deposited into Tornado Cash across three wallet addresses.","source":"CertiK","source_url":"https://www.certik.com/resources/blog/hope-finance"},{"date":"2023-02-20","event":"Hope Finance team posts on Twitter, identifying alleged attacker as Ugwoke Pascal Chukwuebuka and sharing a photograph of the individual with a voter ID card.","source":"CoinCu News","source_url":"https://coincu.com/168666-hope-finance-appears-rug-pull/"},{"date":"2023-02-21","event":"CertiK and PeckShield publish on-chain analyses confirming the exit scam and tracing fund flows to Tornado Cash. CertiK characterizes the incident as driven by centralization vulnerabilities and multisig mishandling.","source":"CertiK","source_url":"https://www.certik.com/resources/blog/hope-finance"},{"date":"2023-02-21","event":"Cognitos contact person at Hope Finance reportedly deactivates their account. Hope Finance website goes offline; Discord becomes inaccessible.","source":"CryptoSlate","source_url":"https://cryptoslate.com/defi-protocol-hope-finance-hacked-for-2m-at-launch/"}]},"v":1}

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