2024

On November 3, 2024, unidentified scammers compromised the X (Twitter) account of rapper Wiz Khalifa (35.7 million followers) and used it to promote two fraudulent Solana meme coins — $WIZ and $WIZZLE — launched on pump.fun. The $WIZ token reached a peak market cap of approximately $2.5 million within 15 minutes before collapsing over 95% in under one hour, with at least two insider wallets extracting a combined $160,000 in profit. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT linked the incident to a broader campaign of celebrity account takeovers that allegedly stole over $3.5 million in total, and subsequently accused a former professional Fortnite player known as 'Serpent' of involvement in the coordinated scheme.

Tapioca DAO is an omnichain DeFi money market built on LayerZero, offering a CDP stablecoin (USDO) and isolated lending markets (Singularity/Big Bang) across Arbitrum and BNB Chain. On October 18, 2024, the protocol suffered a critical security breach when a team member was targeted by a social engineering attack attributed to North Korea's Contagious Interview campaign, resulting in private key compromise, drainage of TAP token vesting contracts, and the minting of 5 quintillion USDO. Approximately $4.4–4.7 million was stolen before a partial counter-exploit recovered roughly 996 ETH (~$2.7 million), leaving the protocol treasury down approximately 45% and the TAP token price collapsed over 95%.