Skip to main content
AVOID.NET

Saga EVM Blockchain

avoid.net/saga-evm-blockchain32/100·82% conf.
[AI-DRAFTED · AWAITING VERIFICATION]

Auto-generated score, not yet verified against the scoring model. Under review — treat as indicative, not a verdict.

anchored·22ssZV…n7Jm

Summary

Saga is a Layer-1 blockchain protocol designed to support application-specific chains (chainlets), with a focus on gaming and DeFi use cases. In January 2026, its SagaEVM chainlet suffered a critical exploit in which an inherited vulnerability in the Ethermint EVM codebase allowed an attacker to mint approximately $7 million in unbacked stablecoins, which were subsequently bridged to Ethereum and largely laundered through Tornado Cash. The broader Saga SSC mainnet, consensus layer, and validator set were not compromised, but the incident exposed material risks from deploying EVM compatibility layers built on unaudited inherited codebases.

Connected Entities

10 entities · 60 linked investigations
Organizations
Cosmos (ATOM)Ethereum64Saga32Cosmos LabsBinance45Saga EVM Blockchain
Protocols
CoW Swap (CoW Protocol)50Uniswap58KyberSwap55LayerZero — DVN Single-Verifier Configuration Risk
Relationships
  • Saga EVM Blockchainmentioned withBinance(65%)
  • Saga EVM Blockchainmentioned withEthereum(80%)
  • Saga EVM Blockchainmentioned withKyberSwap(60%)
  • Saga EVM Blockchainmentioned withUniswap(65%)
  • Saga EVM Blockchainmentioned withSaga(70%)
  • Binancementioned withEthereum(65%)
  • Cosmos Labsmentioned withBinance(65%)
  • Cosmos (ATOM)mentioned withBinance(60%)
  • Uniswapmentioned withEthereum(80%)
  • LayerZero — DVN Single-Verifier Configuration Riskmentioned withEthereum(60%)
  • + 15 more
Have evidence about Saga EVM Blockchain?
0
Accepted
1
Under review
0
Rejected / revoked

Community submissions

  • Under reviewincriminatingWayback pending8/19/2026, 11:13:24 AM

    SagaEVM was exploited January 21, 2026 for approximately $7M via a custom IBC message that bypassed stablecoin collateral validation, enabling unlimited minting of the Saga Dollar. The $D stablecoin depegged 27%, TVL collapsed from $37M to $13.6M, and the chain was paused. Halborn published a detail

    avoid-scout

Timeline(7 events)

9 April 2024

Saga mainnet and SAGA token launched; initial airdrop followed record $13.4 billion staked on Binance

Decrypt

21 January 2026

Attacker deployed helper contract (0x7D69E4376535cf8c1E367418919209f70358581E) and executed exploit against SagaEVM's IBC precompile, minting approximately $7M in Saga Dollar stablecoins without collateral; stolen assets bridged to Ethereum and swapped to ETH via multiple DEXes

Rekt News / Halborn

21 January 2026

Saga team halted SagaEVM chainlet at block 6,593,800; confirmed exploit and stated SSC mainnet and validators were unaffected; coordinated blacklisting of attacker addresses with exchanges and bridges

The Block

21 January 2026

Cosmos Labs notified of vulnerability; began coordinating with affected chains to distribute patch for cosmos/evm before public disclosure

cosmos/evm Security Advisory ASA-2026-002

24 January 2026

Attacker transferred Uniswap v4 LP NFTs to a secondary clean wallet (0xf891de97fa96839329381743f0d6180fcefe3f64) in an effort to further obscure fund trails

Rekt News

24 January 2026

CertiK reported that $6.2 million of stolen funds had been deposited into Tornado Cash across five separate wallets

Cryptopolitan

March 2026

Cosmos Labs issued public security advisory ASA-2026-002, disclosing the ICS20 Precompile vulnerability (fixed in cosmos/evm v0.6.0); confirmed all 15 affected chains had been patched or mitigated prior to disclosure

cosmos/evm Security Advisory ASA-2026-002
Provenance & Audit Trail

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 16 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

model: claude-sonnet-4-6

generated: 6/21/2026, 11:17:58 PM

last updated: 7/27/2026, 5:41:15 PM

4 views

avoid.net — verified advice for a post-truth world