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anubisdao-lose-60-million-rug-pull-phishing-attack/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://blinagency.medium.com/anubis-dao-rug-pull-report-fd92f8b211ee","type":"other","url":""}]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"AnubisDAO was an OlympusDAO fork that launched on October 28, 2021, and raised approximately 13,556 WETH (roughly $60 million) in under 20 hours through a Copper Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool. Before the sale concluded, the entire pool was drained to an external wallet, wiping investors to zero; on-chain investigator ZachXBT later identified two pseudonymous actors — Beerus and Ersan — as the likely perpetrators, and traced the stolen funds through Tornado Cash in 2023. No criminal charges have been publicly confirmed, no investor recovery has occurred, and the ANKH token is worthless.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-03-18","event":"Beerus posts the receiving wallet address (0x9fc53c75046900d1f58209f50f534852ae9f912a) on Twitter — months before AnubisDAO's launch — later cited as evidence of premeditation.","source":""},{"date":"2021-10-28","event":"AnubisDAO launches a 24-hour Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool on Copper, raising 13,556 WETH (~$60M) from retail investors with no website, white paper, or audited contracts.","source":""},{"date":"2021-10-29","event":"Approximately four hours before the LBP close, all 13,556 WETH is drained from the pool and transferred to the pre-registered external wallet, rendering ANKH tokens worthless.","source":""},{"date":"2021-10-29","event":"0xSisyphus publicly accuses Beerus of being a rogue team member; Beerus claims the wallet was compromised via a phishing email. Copper confirms its platform was not exploited.","source":""},{"date":"2021-10-30","event":"0xSisyphus announces a 1,000 ETH reward for information leading to fund recovery and states that multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies have been notified.","source":""},{"date":"2021-10-31","event":"Beerus files a police report with Hong Kong authorities and surrenders a personal computer as evidence.","source":""},{"date":"2021-11-02","event":"The Crypto Times reports that law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S. and Hong Kong, has begun preliminary investigation into the incident.","source":""},{"date":"2022-06-01","event":"AnubisDAO stolen funds move for the first time — approximately eight months after the rug pull — with 1,018 ETH sent via Tornado Cash mixer.","source":""},{"date":"2023-04-01","event":"Continued Tornado Cash laundering activity: batches worth approximately $5.5M and $5.9M are moved and bridged to Polygon.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-15","event":"Large-scale Tornado Cash laundering resumes; the 13,556 ETH (then worth ~$26M) is moved in 100 ETH increments, making AnubisDAO's exploiter the largest ETH depositor to Tornado Cash in 2023.","source":""},{"date":"2023-07-20","event":"ZachXBT publishes on-chain analysis thread identifying Beerus (bsl.eth) and Ersan (0x51da686c7a2f973ad11fafed6ce9a3ffc020349f) as the most likely fund recipients, and linking Ersan to CSGORoll scam operations.","source":""},{"date":"2023-10-06","event":"Pseudonymous investigator NFT Ethics alleges that 0xSisyphus is Kevin Pawlak, former Head of Ventures at OpenSea, claiming premeditation and PEPE laundering. OpenSea denies knowledge of any involvement.","source":""},{"date":"2023-10-10","event":"ZachXBT disputes the NFT Ethics thread as lacking on-chain evidence, reiterating that Beerus and Ersan are the primary suspects; OpenSea issues formal denial of any Pawlak connection to the incident.","source":""}]},"v":1}