Summary
YOLO Games is an on-chain gambling platform built on the Blast Layer 2 network, offering high-risk games such as YOLO, Moon or Doom, and Poke the Bear, with a native $YOLO token as its reward mechanism. In June 2024, an access control vulnerability in a third-party Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) contract was exploited, resulting in the extraction of approximately $1.387 million, of which 90% was subsequently returned by the attacker acting as a whitehat. The $YOLO token has since collapsed approximately 99.6% from its all-time high and the protocol shows near-zero fee activity as of 2025-2026, suggesting severe user attrition or effective abandonment.
Connected Entities
1 entitiesTimeline(11 events)
2024-02-29
YOLO Games completes a token snapshot at Blast block height 19332142 for Season 1 airdrop eligibility.
2024-05-27
Cantina security competition for YOLO Games' core smart contracts begins, covering 10 Solidity contracts with a $27,500 prize pool.
2024-06-01
YOLO Games publicly launches on Blast mainnet.
2024-06-08
Cantina security competition closes with 199 findings submitted.
2024-06-09
YOLO Games deposits 354 ETH and 888,888,888 YOLO tokens into the Bazaar LBP smart contract for the token launch sale.
2024-06-10
Attacker exploits the exitPool() function in the Bazaar LBP contract — a missing permission check allows extraction of approximately 392 ETH and 880,539,680 rYOLO tokens (~$1.387M). Attacker contacts project within minutes to negotiate return.
2024-06-11
YOLO Games announces early termination of the LBP sale due to the security flaw. The attacker returns approximately 353 ETH (~90% of stolen value). YOLO Games commits to ETH refunds for qualifying LBP sale participants.
2024-06-12
YOLO Games proceeds with Token Generation Event (TGE) on a revised plan. $YOLO token begins trading.
2024-06-16
$YOLO token reaches its all-time high of approximately $0.008230.
2026-02-11
$YOLO token reaches its all-time low of approximately $0.00003113, approximately 99.6% below its peak.
2026-02-11
Protocol shows $0 TVL and $0 weekly fees on DeFiLlama, indicating near-complete cessation of user activity.
Decision Log
- hash: G8VQzo99mvQAFexWNBA4tCQrQa65zxsSzNwKmeEFRwam
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:31 AM
last updated: 5/28/2026, 4:00:03 AM
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