The Mango Markets “hacker,” who goes by Avraham Eisenberg, bragged on Twitter about his newest challenge, Mango Inu, a meme coin based mostly on Eisenberg’s notorious Mango Markets exploit. Eisenberg, nevertheless, made it clear on Twitter a few days after launching the challenge that anybody who invested would “positively lose all of your cash.”
Eisenberg later added that he made $100,000 for thirty minutes of labor by way of Mango Inu however may have made way more. As a result of manner he eliminated liquidity from the liquidity swimming pools, he misplaced cash to bots front-running him. Eisenberg estimated he would have made $250,000 had he used one other technique, resembling Flashbots.
(sadly the bots frontran the liq pull and I forgot to make use of flashbots so I solely made like 100k as an alternative of 250k for a half hour of labor)
— Avraham Eisenberg (@avi_eisen) October 23, 2022
Eisenberg supplied no solace to those that invested cash within the meme coin. Certainly, in response to questions over the legality of his actions, Eisenberg argued that his actions have been wholly authorized. Eisenberg had the identical argument for exploiting Mango Markets which he seen as a sophisticated buying and selling technique.
The dearth of selling or info on Mango Inu ought to qualify the rug pull as “simply open market liquidity transactions,” in keeping with Eisenberg.
What half? Mango Inu is certainly not a safety (no advertising and marketing, and many others), no guarantees have been made, simply open market liquidity transactions
— Avraham Eisenberg (@avi_eisen) October 23, 2022
A Reddit thread was created to debate the bragging nature of Eisenberg’s tweets. Common sentiment inside the Reddit neighborhood was that the rug pull was “scumbag habits,” and Eisenberg is prone to earn “a goal on his again” for publicly claiming his exploits.
One Twitter person, Mihai, argued that Eisenberg did promote Mango Inu by way of his Twitter account and that a number of tweets invalidate his declare that he “did completely no promotion.” Eisenberg denied that any of his claims have been fraudulent in a later rebuttal stating Mango Inu was “analogous to promoting a field clearly labelled empty field .”
You admit to Mango Inu being a rugpull. Do you faux that your “did completely no promotion” clears you of guilt? Do you assume all of the individuals who purchased it have been anticipating to “lose all of your cash”, as per your disclaimer? pic.twitter.com/RQNSDTSRSx
— Mihai² (@mihai673) October 23, 2022
Mocking Mihai, Eisenberg replied by sharing a meme laughing at crypto buyers shedding cash with meme cash.
— Avraham Eisenberg (@avi_eisen) October 23, 2022
Eisenberg seems to have carried out a number of exploits over the previous few years. In January, he posted a substack article entitled “How our group makes thousands and thousands in crypto risk-free.” The weblog takes declare to a number of NFT bot-sniping campaigns and an AAVE mortgage exploit utilizing the rebasing token AMPL.
The put up concluded with a name for others to share ‘alpha’ and concepts for related campaigns in crypto or elsewhere, stating
“We now have the talents to execute and the capital to maximise. It doesn’t essentially have to be in crypto.”
