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Value DeFi (formerly YFValue/YFV) was a DeFi yield aggregation and AMM protocol that suffered three documented security exploits between August 2020 and May 2021, resulting in combined losses of approximately $24 million. Beyond the technical failures, the project was found to have used a paid actress from Fiverr to impersonate a co-founder named 'Anna Tanaka,' raising severe concerns about team identity, transparency, and intent. The VALUE token is effectively defunct, trading at a fraction of a cent with a near-zero market cap.
Connected Entities
1 entitiesTimeline(9 events)
August 2020
Value DeFi (then YFValue/YFV) launches. An initial security vulnerability is reported during August 2020, constituting the project's first security incident.
13 November 2020
Value DeFi posts a tweet boasting of 'highest security' and claims to offer flash loan attack prevention.
14 November 2020
Flash loan exploit drains approximately $7.4 million from the MultiStables Vault the day after its launch. Attacker returns $2 million and leaves on-chain message: 'do you really know flashloan?' VALUE token drops 27.9%.
15 November 2020
PeckShield publishes root cause analysis. Value DeFi announces plans to integrate Chainlink price oracles to prevent future AMM oracle manipulation.
5 May 2021
Second major exploit: attacker re-initializes vStake pool on BSC due to missing `initialized = true;` line in smart contract code, draining approximately $10 million. Funds laundered via renBTC to Bitcoin.
8 May 2021
Third exploit: vSwap AMM on BSC is drained of approximately $11 million through exploitation of flawed Bancor formula implementation. Nine of 16 pools are affected.
8 May 2021
Community member Crypto Bethany publicly exposes that Value DeFi's co-founder 'Anna Tanaka' is a paid Fiverr actress named Shan. Value DeFi developer attempts to explain the use of a hired actress as representation for a developer alias.
9 May 2021
Value DeFi proposes minting 4,540 vBSWAP tokens to partially compensate vStake victims. Community response is largely negative.
June 2021
Protocol activity declines sharply. Development effectively ceases. VALUE token begins sustained collapse toward near-zero valuations.
Decision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 15 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 5/4/2026, 2:55:00 AM
last updated: 8/30/2026, 8:47:34 PM
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