Arbix Finance: Insider rug pull — deployer drained user vaults and disappeared, then dumped native token via PancakeSwap
Arbix Finance's team drained all user vaults at 3 AM, pre-dumped 4.5M ARBX tokens, then deleted the website and social accounts — a textbook BSC rug pull that CertiK's November audit failed to prevent.
Summary #
Arbix Finance suffered a Yield Aggregator / Vault on 2022-01-04, resulting in a loss of approximately $10M.
What happened #
Arbix Finance's team drained all user vaults at 3 AM, pre-dumped 4.5M ARBX tokens, then deleted the website and social accounts — a textbook BSC rug pull that CertiK's November audit failed to prevent.
Linked factors #
- RD-F-007 — related : Bug bounty absent — baseline integrity gap [via dashboard_risk_factors/Bug bounty: Unknown]
- RD-F-101 — illustrative : Large governance proposal queued — RT signal would have fired [via realtime_signals/Governance/admin action (Y/N): Y — deployer exercised privileged vault withdrawal capability]
- RD-F-126 — causal : Is-a-fork-of (Cat 8 anchor) [via dashboard_risk_factors/Forked?: Yes — common BSC yield aggregator fork pattern]