Hyperdrive HL
Summary
Hyperdrive HL (formerly Ambit Finance) is a stablecoin lending and liquid-staking protocol deployed on Hyperliquid EVM, which raised a $6 million Series A in May 2025 led by Hack VC and Arrington Capital. On September 27, 2025, an attacker exploited an arbitrary-call vulnerability in the protocol's router contract, draining approximately $782,000 in USDT0 and thBILL tokens across two markets. The team paused operations, patched the vulnerability, and compensated affected users before resuming, though the incident occurred within a broader wave of security breaches across the Hyperliquid ecosystem.
Connected Entities
1 entitiesTimeline(7 events)
2025-05-24
Hyperdrive HL (formerly Ambit Finance) closes $6 million Series A funding round led by Hack VC and Arrington Capital.
2025-05-27
Hyperdrive HL officially launches on Hyperliquid EVM with stablecoin lending, HYPED liquid staking, and HLP vault tokenization products.
2025-09-26
HyperVault, a separate Hyperliquid-based protocol, suffers an alleged $3.6 million loss in a suspected rug pull, with project social media disappearing.
2025-09-27
Attacker exploits an arbitrary-call vulnerability in Hyperdrive HL's router contract, draining 672,934 USDT0 and 110,244 thBILL tokens (~$782,000) from two markets. Stolen funds are bridged to Ethereum and BNB Chain via deBridge.
2025-09-27
CertiK publishes on-chain alert identifying the arbitrary call vulnerability in Hyperdrive's router contract. Hyperdrive team announces market pause and ongoing investigation on X.
2025-09-27
Hyperdrive team reports identifying the root cause and fixing the vulnerability. Team announces compensation plan for affected accounts.
2025-09-29
Hyperdrive team confirms all affected accounts have been remediated and market functions have been restored. Post-mortem report promised.
Decision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:15 AM
last updated: 5/29/2026, 4:12:55 PM
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