Orion Pools
Summary
Orion Pools is the automated market maker (AMM) and liquidity pool component of Orion Protocol, a DeFi liquidity aggregator founded in 2018 by Alexey Koloskov. On February 2, 2023, the protocol suffered a $3 million reentrancy exploit targeting its core exchange contract across Ethereum and BNB Chain, with stolen funds subsequently laundered through Tornado Cash. The project later rebranded to Lumia in late 2024, pivoting from a liquidity aggregator to a Layer 2 blockchain.
Connected Entities
1 entitiesTimeline(9 events)
2018-01-01
Orion Protocol founded by Alexey Koloskov and Kal Ali.
2020-07-01
CertiK publishes audit of Orion token sale contracts. Core exchange contracts not included in scope.
2020-07-01
Orion Protocol raises $3.45 million in funding.
2021-05-31
Orion Terminal mainnet launches, including the Orion Pools AMM product.
2023-02-02
Reentrancy exploit drains approximately $3 million from Orion Protocol's exchange contract on Ethereum ($2.84M) and BNB Chain ($191K). Attacker uses a fake token (ATK) and flash loans to manipulate pool accounting.
2023-02-02
CEO Alexey Koloskov states 'all funds are safe and secure' hours after the exploit. Protocol is paused and PeckShield engaged for investigation.
2023-02-03
Attacker begins depositing stolen ETH into Tornado Cash for laundering. Approximately 1,100 ETH laundered; ~$1M ETH remained in attacker address.
2024-02-26
Orion Protocol announces rebranding to Lumia, positioning as a Layer 2 hyper-liquid restake rollup blockchain.
2024-10-15
ORN-to-LUMIA token swap goes live across major exchanges at 1:1 ratio. Binance reopens LUMIA/USDT trading on October 18, 2024.
Decision Log
- hash: 4h6Dc9myp1QwSmZxfv1cDTXjEJ9vFciVx5zPAm7jhf7g
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, 2:54:44 AM
last updated: 5/28/2026, 3:59:51 AM
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