Jonathan Spalletta — Uranium Finance Exploiter
Summary
Jonathan Spalletta, age 36, of Rockville, Maryland, was indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York on March 31, 2026 for allegedly executing two separate smart contract exploits against Uranium Finance in April 2021, draining a combined approximately $54.7 million across 26 BSC liquidity pools. He is charged with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering, carrying a combined maximum sentence of 30 years. Federal prosecutors allege Spalletta laundered proceeds through Tornado Cash, converted funds into rare collectibles, and negotiated a fraudulent bug bounty following the first exploit to conceal his involvement.
Connected Entities
1 entities · 10 linked investigationsTimeline(7 events)
2021-04-08
First exploit of Uranium Finance: Spalletta allegedly exploits a coding error in the rewards mechanism, draining approximately $1.4 million in cryptocurrency.
DOJ SDNY Press Release2021-04-08
Following the first exploit, Spalletta allegedly negotiates a sham bug bounty with Uranium Finance, retaining approximately $386,000 while appearing to cooperate with the project.
CoinDesk2021-04-28
Second exploit of Uranium Finance: Spalletta allegedly exploits an arithmetic error in the withdrawal logic across 26 BSC liquidity pools, draining approximately $53.3 million and permanently shutting down the protocol.
DOJ SDNY Press Release2021-04-28
Uranium Finance shuts down, citing critical vulnerabilities; liquidity providers suffer total loss of deposited assets.
The Block2025-02-01
U.S. Attorney's Office SDNY and Homeland Security Investigations seize approximately $31 million in cryptocurrency linked to the Uranium Finance exploits, predating the public indictment by approximately 13 months.
CoinDesk2026-03-30
Jonathan Spalletta is arrested and appears before a magistrate in New York; subsequently transferred for arraignment before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
Inner City Press2026-03-31
SDNY indictment (Case No. 1:26-cr-118) unsealed against Spalletta; charged with one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering. Spalletta surrenders in Manhattan and is released on bail.
DOJ SDNY Press ReleaseDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 7/1/2026, 11:13:11 PM
last updated: 7/1/2026, 11:13:21 PM
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