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CoinYuppie","type":"news_article","url":"https://coinyuppie.com/hackers-attack-homologation-vulnerability-to-destroy-fork-protocol/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"AutoShark's Security Posture for the Future — AutoShark Medium","type":"official","url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/autosharks-security-posture-for-the-future-7517c103fffa"}],"summary":"AutoShark Finance was a Binance Smart Chain-based yield optimizer and AMM that suffered two separate economic exploits in 2021, resulting in total losses exceeding $1.4 million in BNB across its SHARK and JAWS tokens. The protocol underwent multiple failed recovery attempts — including token migrations from SHARK to JAWS and a new reserve-currency token ATLAS — before formally shutting down in March 2022 after all three tokens had lost 97–99.75% of their peak value. AutoShark has been flagged by ZachXBT in the context of the wider BSC flash loan attack wave that targeted PancakeBunny forks.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-05-01","event":"AutoShark Finance launches on Binance Smart Chain as a PancakeBunny fork, offering yield optimization vaults and swap-mining rewards via the SHARK token.","source":"AutoShark Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/about"},{"date":"2021-05-19","event":"PancakeBunny, the protocol AutoShark forked, suffers a major flash loan exploit. AutoShark publishes a blog post criticizing PancakeBunny's vulnerability. The SHARK contract has the same flaw.","source":"AutoShark Medium — How PancakeBunny Got Compromised","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/how-pancakebunny-got-compromised-3ec34bbbdb07"},{"date":"2021-05-25","event":"Flash loan attack drains AutoShark SHARK token. Attacker mints 100 million SHARK tokens and extracts approximately 2,500 BNB (~$822,800). SHARK price collapses from $1.20 to $0.01. AutoShark is the third PancakeBunny fork exploited within a week.","source":"How AutoShark Got Economically Exploited — AutoShark Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/how-autoshark-got-economically-exploited-3c644de5073a"},{"date":"2021-06-01","event":"AutoShark resumes operations after patching the oracle vulnerability and migrating to the new JAWS token to compensate SHARK holders.","source":"AutoShark Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/how-autoshark-got-economically-exploited-3c644de5073a"},{"date":"2021-10-02","event":"Swap mining exploit drains approximately 1,388 BNB (~$581,000) via flash loan manipulation of FINS token reward pool. Attacker executes hundreds of back-and-forth swaps to collect outsized fee rebates.","source":"Quadriga Initiative Case Study","source_url":"https://quadrigainitiative.com/casestudy/autosharkfinanceswapminingvulnerability.php"},{"date":"2021-10-29","event":"Second major 2021 attack: economic exploit on JAWS-BNB vault drains approximately 4,348.5 BNB. Attacker manipulates NOVA token price to inflate JAWS minting rewards. AutoShark suspends all JAWS minters.","source":"Post Mortem Review on Economic Attack — AutoShark Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/post-mortem-review-on-economic-attack-af27e76b746e"},{"date":"2021-11-21","event":"AutoShark launches ATLAS token at $10 per token as part of the Atlantis Initiative decentralized reserve currency platform.","source":"Atlantis Initiative Announced — Binance Chain News","source_url":"https://binancechain.news/atlantis-initiative-announced-by-autoshark-finance-for-decentralized-reserve-currency/2021/11/17/"},{"date":"2021-12-01","event":"ATLAS token collapses following alleged insider dumping by early-access investors. All three AutoShark tokens (JAWS, FINS, ATLAS) are in severe decline.","source":"AutoShark Bids Adieu — Binance Chain News","source_url":"https://binancechain.news/autoshark-bids-adieu-end-of-era-on-bnb-chain/2022/03/06/"},{"date":"2022-03-04","event":"AutoShark formally announces shutdown. ATLAS is down 97%, JAWS down 99.5%, FINS down 99.75% from respective all-time highs. Team outlines residual BNB distributions and states no future projects are planned.","source":"End of an Era — AutoShark Medium","source_url":"https://medium.com/autosharkfin/end-of-an-era-d74ea936b1b6"}]},"v":1}