Audit log

Every state-changing event for Lodestar V0: 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.

1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-28 15:02:22Z
   Score: ? → ? (no score change)
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   chain

   ●mainnet-betaslot 422,743,546

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   5Ktm2Hr53Zm6…qU6q9ueucopyexplorer ↗

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   9r5bueA5tFfR…XNaqYEjRcopysha256 → base58

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announcement","type":"social_media","url":"https://x.com/LodestarFinance/status/1684418629297930240"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Unchained Crypto — DeFi Lending Platform Lodestar Finance Loses $6.9M in Oracle Exploit","type":"news_article","url":"https://unchainedcrypto.com/defi-lending-platform-lodestar-finance-loses-6-9m-in-oracle-exploit/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"EigenPhi — $6.9M Lodestar Exploit: Oracle Manipulations","type":"research","url":"https://eigenphi.substack.com/p/69m-lodestar-exploit-oracle-manipulations"}],"summary":"Lodestar V0 is the original deployment of Lodestar Finance, an algorithmic money market lending protocol on Arbitrum. On December 10, 2022, the protocol suffered a critical flash loan exploit in which an attacker manipulated the plvGLP price oracle to drain approximately $6.9 million in user funds. The protocol was subsequently relaunched as Lodestar V1 in July 2023; V0 remains abandoned with negligible TVL (~$95K) and the attacker was never publicly identified.","timeline":[{"date":"2022-12-08","event":"Attacker wallet funded with approximately 1,500 ETH in preparation for the exploit.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-10","event":"Flash loan oracle manipulation exploit executed against Lodestar V0 on Arbitrum; approximately $6.5–6.9 million drained from the protocol.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-10","event":"Lodestar Finance team publicly acknowledged the exploit and appealed to the attacker for a white-hat agreement via Twitter.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-10","event":"PlutusDAO published official statement clarifying the vulnerability was in Lodestar's oracle implementation, not the plvGLP contract.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-11","event":"CertiK published incident analysis identifying attacker wallet 0xb50f...5db13 and detailing the on-chain attack flow.","source":""},{"date":"2022-12-12","event":"Halborn published post-mortem analysis classifying the exploit as a preventable oracle vulnerability.","source":""},{"date":"2023-04-08","event":"Lodestar Finance relaunched on Arbitrum, attracting over $30 million in TVL.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-27","event":"Lodestar V1 launched; team announced migration of incentives from V0 to V1.","source":""},{"date":"2023-10-01","event":"Lodestar team reported approximately one-third of hack losses repaid to affected depositors; 750,000 esLODE tokens allocated for further compensation.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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