KyberSwap Elastic Liquidity Checker
The KyberSwap Elastic protocol on Ethereum has been declared inactive due to a critical security vulnerability. If you have funds in this protocol, you should withdraw immediately.
â ď¸ Important: The protocol shows $0.00 trading volume with a "No trades in the last 3 hours" status. Withdrawal functionality may be limited.
Position Status
Inactive
KyberSwap Elastic is currently inactive with $0 volume
Your liquidity position shows no trading activity. This protocol is no longer functional and is at high risk of permanent loss.
Immediate action required: Withdraw your funds now using a different wallet (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, etc.).
When you hear "KyberSwap Elastic," you might think of a powerful, cutting-edge crypto exchange built for smart traders. And for a while, it was. But as of December 2025, the story has changed - dramatically. KyberSwap Elastic on Ethereum isnât just struggling. Itâs inactive. No trades. No volume. Just a warning on the site telling users to withdraw their funds immediately. This isnât a slow day. This is a shutdown in progress.
What KyberSwap Elastic Was Supposed to Be
KyberSwap Elastic launched in 2022 as the advanced version of KyberSwapâs original automated market maker (AMM). Unlike older DEXs that spread your liquidity across every possible price, Elastic let you lock your funds into specific price ranges. Think of it like setting a price guardrail - you only provide liquidity when the market is near your chosen range. That meant less wasted capital and higher returns for experienced traders. It wasnât just about concentration, though. The real kicker? KyberSwap Elastic automatically reinvested your trading fees back into your position. No manual claiming. No gas fees for compounding. It did it all on its own. That feature alone made it stand out from Uniswap v3, which required users to manually claim and reinvest rewards. For passive liquidity providers, this was a game-changer. The protocol ran on Ethereum, used no KYC, and kept full control of your assets - classic DeFi. You werenât handing over your keys to a company. You were interacting directly with smart contracts. Thatâs the promise of decentralized finance: trustless, permissionless, and user-owned.What Happened to KyberSwap Elastic?
Something went very wrong. In late 2024, security researchers flagged unusual behavior in the Elastic protocolâs fee distribution system. By January 2025, the KyberSwap team confirmed a critical vulnerability. The exploit didnât steal funds directly - instead, it allowed attackers to manipulate fee calculations, potentially draining liquidity pools over time. The team issued an emergency advisory: âWithdraw all funds immediately.â Since then, nothing has moved. As of today, KyberSwap Elastic on Ethereum shows:- 24-hour trading volume: $0.00
- Active trading pairs: 1 (C98/USDT)
- Last trade: 6 days ago
- Status: âInactive - No trades in the last 3 hoursâ
- Price anomaly warning: âTrading price or volume is an outlierâ
How It Compares to the Competition
Before the crash, KyberSwap Elastic had one clear edge: automated compounding. But now, that advantage means nothing. Uniswap v3 still works. Itâs active. It has billions in volume. You still need to manually reinvest your fees, but at least your money isnât trapped. SushiSwapâs concentrated liquidity pool is also live. Curve Finance? Still processing thousands of trades daily. Even newer players like Balancer v2 have kept momentum. KyberSwap Elastic? Dead in the water. The broader KyberSwap ecosystem - the aggregator that finds the best rates across 8 blockchains - is still going strong. It handled $3.7 billion in volume in March 2025. But thatâs the aggregator, not Elastic. The aggregator doesnât hold your funds. It just finds routes. Elastic was the part where you actually deposited your assets. And that part is broken.
Who Was This For? (And Who Should Avoid It)
KyberSwap Elastic was never for beginners. You needed to understand:- How price ranges affect impermanent loss
- When to adjust your liquidity bounds
- How gas fees eat into small returns
- Why automated compounding matters in volatile markets
The Bigger Picture: Is KyberSwap Still Trustworthy?
This isnât the first time a DeFi protocol had a security issue. But itâs rare for a team to go silent for months after a major warning. KyberSwapâs website still gets over 200,000 monthly visits. Its aggregator works. Its mobile app still connects to other chains. The team has added integrations with Ronin, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Theyâre clearly still building - just not on Ethereum Elastic. Thatâs the red flag. If they were fixing Elastic, theyâd be talking about it. Theyâd post audit reports. Theyâd give updates. Instead, theyâve buried it under the rest of the ecosystem. The lesson? Even well-funded, well-known projects can fail silently. You canât assume a teamâs reputation protects your money. You have to watch the chain.
What You Should Do Right Now
If you still have funds in KyberSwap Elastic on Ethereum:- Log in immediately - donât wait.
- Withdraw every last dollar, every token.
- Donât trust the interface. If the withdrawal button is grayed out, try connecting a different wallet (MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, etc.).
- Once withdrawn, donât redeposit. This isnât a temporary outage. This is abandonment.
- Try Uniswap v3 - itâs the most battle-tested
- Use SushiSwapâs concentrated liquidity pools for lower fees
- Check Balancer v2 if you want multi-token pools
Sarah Luttrell
December 11, 2025 AT 05:41Oh sweet mother of DeFi, they actually let this thing live long enough to die on its own? đ¤Śââď¸
Automated compounding? More like automated suicide. If you didnât know how to manage price ranges, you shouldnât have been near this thing - and if you did, you shouldâve pulled out the second you saw the âinactiveâ banner.
At least the team had the decency to not pretend they were fixing it. Just⌠ghosted. Like a bad Tinder date with a $200M TVL.
Meanwhile, Uniswap v3 is out here making bank while Kyberâs ghost pool sits there like a tombstone with a âRIP Your Capitalâ plaque.
Also, C98/USDT still showing a price? Bro, thatâs not a price - thatâs a memory. A digital ghost haunting the Ethereum blockchain.
Someone please write a book called âHow to Lose $10M in 6 Months: A KyberSwap Elastic Tragedy.â Iâll buy the audiobook narrated by a crying robot.
PRECIOUS EGWABOR
December 11, 2025 AT 20:32Wow. Just⌠wow.
Itâs wild how fast these âinnovativeâ DeFi projects can go from ânext big thingâ to âdead in the water.â
They had the tech, they had the branding, they even had the auto-compound feature - but no one bothered to test the emergency shutdown protocol properly.
Itâs not just about code. Itâs about accountability. And Kyberâs silence speaks louder than any audit report ever could.
People still donât get it: if your team stops talking after a warning, your protocol is already dead. The code might still run, but the trust? Gone.
And now weâre left with this eerie, frozen liquidity pool like a museum exhibit of bad decisions.
Next time, maybe donât build a Ferrari with a broken brake pedal and call it âuser-friendly.â
Kathleen Sudborough
December 13, 2025 AT 19:08I just want to say - if youâre reading this and you still have funds in KyberSwap Elastic, please, please withdraw them.
Even if the interface looks broken, even if the button is grayed out, try MetaMask, try Coinbase Wallet, try connecting from a different browser.
Iâve seen too many people assume âinactiveâ means âtemporaryâ - but in DeFi, silence is the loudest red flag.
Itâs okay to admit you got caught up in the hype. What matters now is protecting whatâs left.
You didnât fail. The protocol failed you.
And if youâre thinking of moving to Uniswap v3 or SushiSwap next - youâre making the right choice.
Stay safe, stay informed, and donât let one bad experience make you quit DeFi entirely.
We need more thoughtful participants, not more ghosted wallets.
Heath OBrien
December 15, 2025 AT 16:23LOL they thought they could outsmart everyone
now their pool is a ghost town
typical crypto drama
withdraw or lose it
no tears
no refunds
just move on
Taylor Farano
December 17, 2025 AT 05:01Let me get this straight - a team built a product that auto-compounds fees⌠and then forgot to compound their own sense of responsibility?
Thatâs not a bug. Thatâs a personality disorder wrapped in a smart contract.
And now theyâre quietly building on Arbitrum like nothing happened?
Classic. The same people who told you âtrustlessâ means âno one can steal your moneyâ are now hiding in the shadows like they didnât just turn a $50M liquidity pool into a digital graveyard.
At least they had the decency to not rename it âKyberSwap Elastic 2.0 - Now With More Trust!â
What a joke.
Toni Marucco
December 18, 2025 AT 13:04The collapse of KyberSwap Elastic represents a profound epistemological rupture in the DeFi paradigm - one wherein technological innovation, divorced from ethical stewardship and communicative transparency, inevitably devolves into systemic abandonment.
One may admire the elegance of concentrated liquidity provision, the elegance of automated fee reinvestment - but these are hollow achievements if the moral architecture of the protocol - the implicit covenant between developer and depositor - is breached.
The teamâs silence is not merely negligence; it is a metaphysical withdrawal from the social contract of decentralized finance.
Uniswap v3 persists not because it is superior in feature, but because it honors the primacy of user agency through persistent operational integrity.
KyberSwap Elastic, by contrast, has become a monument to hubris - a blockchain-based ossuary where liquidity goes to die, not because of market forces, but because of human failure.
We must not romanticize innovation without demanding accountability.
For in DeFi, as in all things, the architecture of trust is more critical than the architecture of code.
Kathryn Flanagan
December 19, 2025 AT 02:53Hey everyone, I just wanted to say - if youâre new to DeFi and youâre scared after reading this, thatâs totally normal.
I remember when I first put money into a liquidity pool and thought, âWait, is this safe?â
Itâs okay to feel that way.
But hereâs the thing - this isnât your fault.
KyberSwap had a responsibility to keep their users safe, and they dropped the ball.
But that doesnât mean all DeFi is dangerous.
Uniswap v3? Solid. SushiSwap? Still running. Balancer? Active.
And guess what? You can still earn great returns if you stick with projects that are transparent and keep talking to their community.
Just take your time. Read the docs. Donât rush.
And if something feels off - trust your gut.
Youâve got this. Weâve all been there. Youâre not alone.
amar zeid
December 20, 2025 AT 10:30Interesting analysis. But I wonder - was the vulnerability exploitable only by insiders, or could an external attacker have drained the pool gradually?
Also, has anyone checked the contractâs transaction history on Etherscan to see if there were any large, unusual transfers before the silence?
And what about the governance token holders? Did they vote on the shutdown? Or was this a unilateral decision?
Iâm curious if the team even disclosed the vulnerability to the community before pulling the plug.
Itâs one thing to have a bug - itâs another to vanish without a trace.
Maybe this is a lesson in decentralization: if no one owns it, no one is responsible for it.
Alex Warren
December 21, 2025 AT 16:57Volume: $0.00. Last trade: 6 days ago. Status: Inactive. Price anomaly warning. All of this is objectively verifiable on-chain.
No speculation. No opinion. Just data.
And yet, people still ask if itâs âcoming back.â
Itâs not. The blockchain doesnât lie.
Whatâs more concerning is that Kyberâs aggregator still works - which means their engineering team is active, just selectively so.
Thatâs not a coincidence. Itâs a strategy.
Theyâre keeping the brand alive while quietly burying the product that failed.
And users paid for that with their capital.
Trust is not a feature. Itâs a requirement.
Claire Zapanta
December 22, 2025 AT 02:04Anyone else think this was a honeypot?
They built a âsmartâ system with auto-compounding - perfect for attracting big liquidity.
Then let a âvulnerabilityâ quietly drain it over weeks.
Then they vanish - and now the whole thingâs âinactive.â
But the aggregator still works? Coincidence?
And the C98/USDT pair? Still showing a price? Thatâs not a bug - thatâs a trap.
They wanted the liquidity. They got it. Now theyâre gone.
Whoâs to say this wasnât planned?
They didnât get hacked.
They hacked us.
And now theyâre laughing all the way to Arbitrum.
Lloyd Cooke
December 23, 2025 AT 00:05There is a quiet, almost poetic tragedy in the death of KyberSwap Elastic.
It was not destroyed by a bear market, nor by regulatory crackdown, nor by a hostile takeover.
It was murdered by silence.
By the absence of a voice. By the refusal to say, âWe made a mistake.â
It is the silence that makes this death feel like a betrayal - not because the code failed, but because the humanity did.
We built DeFi to escape the lies of banks.
But here we are, betrayed by the very architects who swore to be different.
And now, we are left with a frozen pool - not a monument to innovation, but to the fragility of human integrity.
Perhaps the real lesson is not in the contract - but in the conscience.
Kurt Chambers
December 24, 2025 AT 11:08they said trustless but we trusted anyway
lol
now my eth is stuck in a ghost pool
and the devs are sipping margaritas on arbitrum
decentralized my ass
crypto is just a casino with extra steps
and i was dumb enough to play
send help or just take my money
im done
Jessica Eacker
December 25, 2025 AT 14:35Hey, if youâre still holding funds in KyberSwap Elastic - youâre not alone.
I was there too. Thought I was being smart with my ranges.
Then the silence hit.
But hereâs what I learned: pulling out was the bravest thing I did.
It wasnât easy. I had to try three wallets. One didnât connect. One timed out.
But I kept trying.
And now? Iâm on Uniswap v3 - manual compounding, but at least I can see my money move.
Itâs not glamorous.
But itâs real.
You can do this too.
One step at a time.
Youâve got this.
Jessica Petry
December 27, 2025 AT 08:49Let me be the first to say it - KyberSwap Elastic wasnât killed by hackers.
It was killed by people who thought they were too smart to need transparency.
âOh, we have automated compounding!â
âOh, weâre on Ethereum!â
âOh, no KYC!â
But no one asked: âWhoâs watching the house?â
And now? The house is empty.
And the people who trusted them? Left holding the keys to a ghost mansion.
Itâs not a failure of technology.
Itâs a failure of character.
And Iâm tired of pretending otherwise.
Scot Sorenson
December 27, 2025 AT 12:22They didnât get hacked.
They got outsmarted.
By their own ego.
They thought auto-compounding made them geniuses.
Turns out it just made them lazy.
And now the whole thingâs dead.
Meanwhile, Uniswapâs still crushing it - because they donât pretend to be magic.
They just do the work.
And you? Youâre still stuck wondering if your moneyâs safe.
Itâs not.
So go withdraw.
Now.
Before they delete the whole thing and claim it was âa test.â
Sarah Luttrell
December 29, 2025 AT 02:57Someone just said theyâre on Uniswap v3 now.
Good. But donât just copy-paste your old ranges.
Thatâs how you get re-hacked - by repeating the same mistakes.
Adjust your bounds. Check the volatility. Use a liquidity calculator.
Donât be lazy.
And for godâs sake, donât trust âautomatedâ anything again unless youâve audited the code yourself.
Or at least read the audit.
Not the marketing blog.
The real one.
With the footnotes.
And the disclaimer that says âweâre not liable if your money vanishes.â
Thatâs the one.