Base vault loses more than $6 million in wstETH drain

  • Blockaid and investigators traced a Base vault drain through Aave.
  • 1,783.067 aBaswstETH was redeemed into roughly 1,783 wstETH.
  • The vault is controlled by an unidentified 3-of-7 Safe created about 324 days earlier.

A vault on Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer two (L2) protocol, lost more than $6 million after a newly created contract was added to its whitelist. Investigators said about 1,783.067 aBaswstETH was borrowed, transferred to an attacker-controlled contract and redeemed through Aave on Base for roughly 1,783 wstETH. The vault is controlled by a 3-of-7 Safe whose seven signer addresses and underlying organization have not been publicly identified. Security firms have not confirmed a core-contract compromise, a Base chain hack or the precise authorization failure. The stolen wstETH could face near-term selling pressure, but systemic risk appears contained for now. The incident remains under investigation, and no protocol has claimed the vault.

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