17 Oct 2026 (UTC)
TIPMine attack on BNB Chain: TIP/SOL pool drained
TenArmor flagged a ~$68.5K attack on TIPMine on BNB Chain. On-chain, the TIP/SOL pool lost 715 SOL on 17 Oct 2026. Root cause: Unknown.
- Event date
- Incident typeSmart-contract exploit
- Bug classNot yet published
- Published
Loss, as sourced
About $68.5K, per TenArmor. On-chain: the pool lost 715 SOL (BEP-20); 667.23 SOL went to the attacker's address.
Traceability
Primary sources
In brief
Root cause: Not yet published. Unknown: no security firm or project statement describing the mechanism was found.
Timeline, as sourced: Attack tx 17 Oct 2026 14:47:46 UTC (on-chain); TenArmor alert 19 Oct 01:29 UTC.
Account, as sourced
TenArmor (opens in a new tab) reported a suspicious attack involving TIPMine and its TIP token on BNB Chain, with a loss of about $68.5K. In the attack transaction (opens in a new tab), sent on 17 October 2026, a contract created by the attacker's address traded through the TIP/SOL PancakeSwap pool; the pool lost 715 SOL (the BEP-20 SOL token) and the attacker's address received 667.23 SOL, with smaller amounts going to other addresses (on-chain). Unknown: the mechanism. Neither TenArmor nor TIPMine has published a root cause in the sources checked.
Summaries of public sources as of the published date; except where marked (on-chain), not independently verified by NullMeridian. Figures are the sources’ own and are attributed; where sources disagree, each is given. Sources may since have changed. Not legal, financial or investment advice.
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