Mango Markets Saldırganı Avraham Eisenberg Tutuklandı, 'Piyasa Manipülasyon Suçları'yla Suçlandı

Adalet Bakanlığı açıkladı on Tuesday the arrest of Avraham Eisenberg, charging him with “market-manipulation offenses” related to his attack on the Mango Markets crypto exchange.

A ikinci dosyalama signed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Thomas S. Burnett and Noah Solowiejczyk has specifically charged Eisenberg with commodities fraud and commodities manipulation. 

“Eisenberg engaged in a scheme involving the intentional and artificial manipulation of the price of perpetual futures contracts on a cryptocurrency exchange called Mango Markets,” the filing reads.

Mango Markets, Solana merkezli merkezi olmayan bir borsadır (DEX) tarafından yönetilen DAO made up of holders of its native token, MNGO, that lets investors lend, borrow, swap, and use leverage to trade crypto.

On October 11, 2022, the project was drained of roughly $110 million, with Mango Markets tweet at that time that a hacker had manipulated the platform’s price oracle. Eisenberg Ayrıca kabul edilmiş to being “involved with a team that operated a highly profitable trading strategy” shortly after.

As explained in the court filing, Eisenberg executed this attack by selling MNGO perpetuals from one account to another separate account also under his control. He then began buying large amounts of MNGO, which had the effect of increasing the value of his large MNGO perpetuals holdings. He then borrowed against these holdings and withdrew $110 million in assorted cryptocurrencies. 

This strategy had the knock-on effect of essentially rendering the platform insolvent, with Eisenberg himself açıklayan that the insurance fund in place was “insufficient to cover all liquidations.” 

On October 14, 2022, Mango DAO sunulan Mango Market saldırganı $ 47 milyon bug bounty along with the promise of not pressing charges if they sent back $67 million worth of tokens.

“We are seeking to make users whole to the extent possible,” the DAO said.