Incident case file
Sign in to watchSummer.fi Lazy Summer Protocol — Flash Loan NAV Manipulation
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Attacker: 0x7BF716167B48CF527725722C6d79494b45B3BDCa (labeled 'Summer.fi Exploiter 1' by Etherscan). Exploit contract: 0x0514F827C129C16418a0933E03C99A6AF982FC61 (labeled 'Summer.fi Exploiter 2' by Etherscan).
Timeline: July 6, 2026, 05:17:59 UTC: attacker executes a single atomic transaction — donates stale-valued Silo 'Varlamore USDC Growth' vault tokens (mispriced on-chain since the November 2025 Stream Finance collapse) into a deposit-capped Ark still counted in NAV calculations, inflating vault NAV by ~9.5%; borrows a ~$65.4M flash loan via Morpho; redeems shares at the inflated price of ~1.1678 USDC/share versus the true ~1.0665 USDC/share, netting ~$6.04M ($5.64M from the lower-risk vault, $0.40M from the higher-risk vault). 05:36 UTC: Blockaid detects and flags the live exploit. 06:42 UTC: Block Analitica freezes deposits on affected vaults. 07:39 UTC: SEAL 911 engaged. 07:52 UTC: first Guardian Safe multisig transaction. 09:48 UTC: on-chain message sent to the attacker's address from the Lazy Summer deployer. 10:25 UTC: deposit caps set to zero on DAO-managed vaults, Ethereum and Base vaults paused. 11:38 UTC: Arbitrum and Sonic vaults paused as a precaution. 16:39 UTC: Foundation Multisig sweeps remaining Silo Varlamore shares out of the affected vault. 17:16 UTC: Summer.fi contacts FixedFloat regarding the attacker's initial funding. July 7, 2026: full official post-mortem published, confirming contracts behaved as coded and the root cause was a process failure (incomplete Ark offboarding), not a smart contract bug. July 8, 2026: further reporting traces the root cause directly to the November 2025 Stream Finance collapse. Compensation for affected depositors remains an open Lazy Summer DAO governance decision as of this report; no final per-depositor reconciliation has been published.
Sources and coverage
- Articleblog.summer.fihttps://blog.summer.fi/lazy-summer-usdc-vault-exploit-post-mortem-what-happened-and-what-comes-next/
- Articlegist.github.comhttps://gist.github.com/halaprix/52bd5e32b35be100dc40ba30539e4169
- Articlecoindesk.comhttps://www.coindesk.com/web3/2026/07/06/defi-protocol-summer-fi-halts-lazy-summer-vaults-after-usd6-million-exploit
- Articlecryptotimes.iohttps://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/07/08/6m-lazy-summer-exploit-traces-back-to-novembers-stream-finance-collapse/
- Articleambcrypto.comhttps://ambcrypto.com/summer-fi-reveals-months-long-preparation-behind-6m-defi-exploit/
- Articlecryptorank.iohttps://cryptorank.io/news/feed/432cb-blockaid-flags-6-million-exploit-on-defi-platform-summer-fi-as-security-challenges-mount
- Articlenewscord.orghttps://newscord.org/article/summerfi-halts-lazy-summer-vaults-after-6-million-exploit-linked-to-blockaid--Story_20260706_DeFiprotocolSummerfif39706f0
- Articlefinance.yahoo.comhttps://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/hackers-reportedly-drain-6-million-075620230.html
- Articlefinancefeeds.comhttps://financefeeds.com/summer-finance-exploited-for-6-million-in-flash-loan-attack/
- Articleetherscan.iohttps://etherscan.io/token/0x98C49e13bf99D7CAd8069faa2A370933EC9EcF17
- Articleetherscan.iohttps://etherscan.io/tx/0x0db528c44f23fc7fa4544684a2fab81096450a14aae8bc89f42cd0592d43da12
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