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Ionic Protocol

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Summary

Ionic Protocol (also known as Ionic Money) is a decentralized non-custodial lending and borrowing protocol deployed on the Mode Network (OP Superchain). It is a rebrand of Midas Capital, which suffered two separate exploits in 2023 totaling approximately $1.26 million. In February 2025, Ionic itself was exploited via a social engineering attack involving a counterfeit LBTC token, resulting in losses estimated between $8.6 million and $12.3 million; funds were partially laundered through Tornado Cash and have not been recovered.

Connected Entities

11 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
□Polygon54□Midas Capital□Ethereum□Ionic Money□Balancer□uniBTC□Binance□ZachXBT□Compound V2
Protocols
⌂Ionic Protocol
Tokens
♦Coinbase
Relationships
  • Ethereum→mentioned with→Coinbase(60%)
  • Compound V2→mentioned with→Coinbase(65%)
  • Compound V2→mentioned with→Balancer(60%)
  • Compound V2→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
  • Compound V2→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
  • Midas Capital→mentioned with→Polygon(60%)
  • Midas Capital→mentioned with→Ethereum(60%)
  • Midas Capital→mentioned with→Binance(60%)
  • Midas Capital→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
  • Ionic Money→mentioned with→Balancer(70%)
  • + 31 more
Also appears in
Polygon·54StableMagnet·2Shibarium·28JUDAO·18Shibarium Bridge·32Andean Medjedovic·2Ionic Money·14Allo Protocol·57AnubisDAO·2SushiSwap RouteProcessor Exploit·54+ 50 more

Connected Through

11 shared actors · 579 investigations

Distinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.

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Timeline(10 events)

November 2021

Midas Capital founded with a vision of multichain isolated-pool lending.

15 January 2023

Midas Capital first exploit: approximately $660,000 drained via read-only reentrancy vulnerability in Curve LP collateral on Polygon.

17 June 2023

Midas Capital second exploit: approximately $600,000 drained via rounding error in Compound V2-derived code on BNB Chain.

2023

Midas Capital sunsetted; team begins rebrand to Ionic Protocol on Mode Network.

12 December 2024

Alleged attacker begins interacting with Ionic Protocol, impersonating Lombard Finance team in BD discussions.

9 January 2025

Attacker deploys counterfeit LBTC smart contract (0x964dd444e3192f636322229080a576077b06fba3).

4 February 2025

Ionic Money exploit begins: attacker mints 250 fake LBTC, deposits as collateral, and borrows approximately $8.6–$12.3 million in real assets.

4 February 2025

Attacker bridges ~1,204 ETH ($3.2 million) from Mode Network to Ethereum and launders funds through Tornado Cash.

8 February 2025

Ionic team publishes official post-mortem; states the incident was not a code-based breach and pledges to work with law enforcement.

4 February 2025

ZachXBT publicly flags the exploit and states 'Ionic is just Midas wearing a carnival mask,' referencing two prior 2023 hacks.

Provenance & Audit Trail
Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain15 Wayback Archivessrc:defillama

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 15 of 20 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:25 AM

last updated: 9/12/2026, 10:51:24 AM

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