Cream Finance
Summary
C.R.E.A.M. Finance is a decentralized lending protocol that launched on Ethereum in August 2020, originally forked from Compound Finance. The protocol suffered three major exploits across 2021, losing approximately $186 million in total user funds, and has been effectively dormant since early 2022 with minimal development activity and a TVL that collapsed from over $2 billion to under $3 million.
Connected Entities
1 entities · 10 linked investigationsTimeline(10 events)
2020-08-01
C.R.E.A.M. Finance launches on Ethereum, forked from Compound Finance. Jeffrey Huang and Leo Cheng are founders.
C.R.E.A.M. Finance Medium2021-02-13
First major exploit: Iron Bank and Alpha Homora V2 attacked via flash loan, approximately $37.5 million stolen. Largest flash loan exploit on record at the time.
CoinDesk2021-08-30
Second exploit: AMP token ERC-777 reentrancy bug exploited across 17 transactions, draining 2,804.96 ETH and 462,079,976 AMP tokens (~$18.8M). A copycat attacker exploits the same unfixed vulnerability in the same period.
CoinDesk2021-10-27
Third and largest exploit: yUSD oracle price manipulation via flash-borrowed DAI and ETH allows attacker to drain approximately $130 million across 68 asset types. Largest DeFi flash loan hack recorded at the time.
Bloomberg2021-11-01
C.R.E.A.M. team announces repayment plan: 1,453,415 CREAM tokens (entire team allocation) distributed to exploit victims. CREAM price declines sharply on the news.
The Defiant2022-06-01
ZachXBT publishes investigation alleging founder Jeffrey Huang embezzled approximately 22,000 ETH from the Formosa Financial ICO treasury and orchestrated fake voting in the 2018 Binance listing competition for Mithril.
ZachXBT / Medium2022-09-12
October 2021 exploit attacker converts $1.75 million in stolen funds to Bitcoin; the majority of the $130M remains unrecovered.
CoinDesk2023-01-01
Jeffrey Huang drops defamation lawsuit against ZachXBT over the June 2022 article.
Blockworks2023-08-05
Last significant commit activity observed on Cream Finance GitHub repositories. Protocol enters effectively dormant state.
GitHub — CreamFiDecision Log
- hash: HuHAtx3DKMkRGwh4tyBZNJfUGEz1tXNDYVdm7sXcKbQj
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/31/2026, 6:59:03 AM
last updated: 5/31/2026, 6:59:08 AM
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