Merlin DEX exploit — attacker addresses (rekt.news)
- Scam type: Rug pull
- Chain: EVM (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base and other EVM chains)
- Reported: 2026-10-14
- Last updated: 2026-10-16
Merlin DEX incident as documented by rekt.news (https://rekt.news/merlin-dex-rekt). Incident date per rekt.news: 04/25/2023. Amount lost per rekt.news leaderboard: $1,820,000 (USD at time of incident). Addresses below are those the rekt.news article itself labels as attacker/exploiter/hacker addresses or attacker contracts (linked to block explorers), copied verbatim from the article: - 0x2744d62a1e9ab975f4d77fe52e16206464ea79b7 (explorer.zksync.io; explorer link in article: https://explorer.zksync.io/address/0x2744d62a1e9ab975f4d77fe52e16206464ea79b7) — article context: "Attacker address…