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{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"a56df40e-15e2-4016-bb83-b4014944e6f3","kind":"publish","page_slug":"cheesebank","published_at":"2026-05-28T18:57:49.439Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"CheeseBank","sections":[{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://etherscan.io/token/0xA04bDB1f11413a84D1F6C1d4d4FeD0208F2e68bF","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://docs.cheesebank.io/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/cheesebank/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://peckshield.medium.com/cheese-bank-incident-root-cause-analysis-d076bf87a1e7","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://blog.peckshield.com/2020/11/16/cheesebank/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/cheese-bank-s-multi-million-dollar-hack-explained-by-security-firm","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://ihodl.com/topnews/2020-11-17/defi-project-cheese-bank-loses-33m-after-hacker-attack/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://insights.glassnode.com/defi-attacks-flash-loans-centralized-price-oracles/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://etherscan.io/token/0xA04bDB1f11413a84D1F6C1d4d4FeD0208F2e68bF","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://etherscan.io/address/0xa04bdb1f11413a84d1f6c1d4d4fed0208f2e68bf","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://peckshield.medium.com/cheese-bank-incident-root-cause-analysis-d076bf87a1e7","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://insights.glassnode.com/defi-attacks-flash-loans-centralized-price-oracles/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/cheesebank/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://cheesebank2020.medium.com/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://github.com/cheese-bank/cheesebank","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://docs.cheesebank.io/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://ihodl.com/topnews/2020-11-17/defi-project-cheese-bank-loses-33m-after-hacker-attack/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://peckshield.medium.com/cheese-bank-incident-root-cause-analysis-d076bf87a1e7","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://www.quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/cheesebankheist.php","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/cheese-bank-s-multi-million-dollar-hack-explained-by-security-firm","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/cheesebank/","type":"other","url":""}]},{"content":"","heading":"","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":3,"name":"https://insights.glassnode.com/defi-attacks-flash-loans-centralized-price-oracles/","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://arxiv.org/html/2411.01230v1","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://defiprime.com/hacks2020","type":"other","url":""},{"credibility":3,"name":"https://hackernoon.com/how-dollar100m-got-stolen-from-defi-in-2021-price-oracle-manipulation-and-flash-loan-attacks-explained-3n6q33r1","type":"other","url":""}]}],"sources_used":[],"summary":"Cheese Bank was an Ethereum-based DeFi lending protocol that launched in September 2020 and suffered a $3.3 million exploit on November 6, 2020, caused by a flash loan attack combined with price oracle manipulation on Uniswap. The anonymous team claimed to have patched the vulnerability, but the protocol never recovered meaningful activity, the CHEESE token collapsed in value, and the project is widely considered abandoned. ZachXBT has flagged the entity as a high-risk project.","timeline":[{"date":"2020-09-27","event":"CHEESE ERC-20 token contract (0xA04bDB1f11413a84D1F6C1d4d4FeD0208F2e68bF) verified and deployed on Ethereum mainnet.","source":""},{"date":"2020-09-30","event":"Cheese Bank yield farming officially launched.","source":""},{"date":"2020-10-15","event":"Cheese Bank Lending Protocol 2.0 officially launched.","source":""},{"date":"2020-10-19","event":"Cheese Bank announced the launch of a new UNI_V2-ETH-USDC liquidity pool.","source":""},{"date":"2020-11-06","event":"Flash loan oracle manipulation exploit executed at 19:22 UTC, draining approximately $3.3 million in USDC, USDT, and DAI from Cheese Bank lending pools. Attacker consolidated funds to 0x02b7165d0916e373f0235056a7e6fccdb82d2255.","source":""},{"date":"2020-11-16","event":"PeckShield published a root cause analysis of the Cheese Bank incident, identifying the AMM-based oracle pricing formula as the root vulnerability.","source":""},{"date":"2020-11-17","event":"Cheese Bank team published a statement on Medium acknowledging the incident and claiming the vulnerability had been patched. No compensation plan for affected users was announced.","source":""},{"date":"2022-11-05","event":"CHEESE token reached its recorded all-time high of $0.0001, indicating near-total value destruction since the 2020 exploit.","source":""},{"date":"2026-05-01","event":"Project documentation domain (docs.cheesebank.io) inaccessible; CHEESE token unlisted on major exchanges; protocol considered abandoned by market participants.","source":""}]},"v":1}