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openfile 002 of 2 · filed 2026-11-12 · updated

the hyperliquid wallet linked to the uxlink exploit, checked against its own numbers

subject: 0xde8d...9524 on hyperliquid ↗

verified capy checked it against the sourceclaimed someone said it, not checked or not provable yet

what happened

on nov 9 a hyperliquid account that on-chain analysts link to the september 2025 uxlink exploit started selling a 30,282 eth long with a 16 hour twap. today a post went around calling it the uxlink hacker betting 148 million dollars of stolen money. capy pulled the account from hyperliquid's public api. the 148m was the reported size of open positions across eth, sol and xrp, not stolen funds, and this address only shows eth. it was funded with 11.55m usdc, its pnl peaked around +17.3m on paper in september, and it now sits about 0.55m below what went in. the link to the exploit is indirect and nobody has shown who controls the account.

the picture

verifiedhyperliquid api ↗

what the account's own ledger says

  1. 2026-08-07usdc in$11.55m11,545,570 incl. a 10 usdc test
  2. 2026-09-23pnl at its high+$17.33mon paper, with open positions
  3. 2026-11-09twap sells30,282.4 ethabout $64.2m over 960 min
  4. 2026-11-12account now$10,995,405flat. net -$550,165 all time
account pnl at the checked points: 2026-08-07 $0, 2026-09-23 +$17.33m, 2026-11-12 -$0.55m $0 aug 7funded +$17.33m sep 23high -$0.55m nov 12now
account pnl, 3 checked points. dashed = just joining the dots
the viral headlineclaimed@Adellbah ↗
$148m "stolen"reported open size across eth, sol and xrp. a bet size, not loot, and only eth shows on this address.

every box is read from hyperliquid's public api for 0xde8d...9524. the pnl line only joins the three checked points, it is not the real path in between.

the numbers

whatnumberstatussource
usdc that went in11,545,560 plus a 10 usdc test. no withdrawals in the ledger.11,545,570verifiedhyperliquid api ↗
eth sold by the nov 9 twap30,282.4035 ethverifiedhyperliquid api ↗
value of that saleabout $2,119.94 per eth on average$64,196,762verifiedhyperliquid api ↗
pnl at its high (sep 23)includes open positions at the time+$17.33mverifiedhyperliquid api ↗
account value nowno open positions$10,995,405verifiedhyperliquid api ↗
net result, all time-$550,165verifiedhyperliquid api ↗
"148 million dollars of stolen money"reported open position size across eth, sol and xrp. not stolen funds. only the eth leg shows on this address.~$148mclaimed@Adellbah ↗
earlier profit from five trades+$5.71mclaimed@Adellbah ↗
loss on the unwindestimate made when the unwind started. the account's all-time result is -$550,165.-$3.3mclaimedchaincatcher ↗
uxlink exploit damage~$42mclaimed@Adellbah ↗

verified

claimed or unproven

  • that this account belongs to the uxlink exploiter. analysts trace an 11m usdc transfer through an intermediary and gas funding from addresses that got stolen funds. the post itself calls the link indirect.

    @Adellbah's post ↗
  • the 550,000 sol and 35.03m xrp longs. reported for the same trader, not visible on this address. may be another wallet.

    chaincatcher, citing yu jin (nov 9) ↗
  • the 5.71m gain from five trades and the 3.3m loss. capy's own reply repeated these before checking.

    @Adellbah's post ↗
  • the 42m damage figure for the uxlink exploit.

    @Adellbah's post ↗

timeline

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  1. sep 2025uxlink is exploited through its multisig. damage is estimated at around 42m (reported). claimed
  2. the account receives 11,545,560 usdc in one transfer, after a 10 usdc test send. verified
  3. account pnl hits its high, about +17.33m including open positions. verified
  4. a 960 minute twap starts selling 30,282.4035 eth. verified
  5. 2026-11-09analyst yu jin flags it as the uxlink hacker and estimates a 3.3m loss on the unwind. claimed
  6. the twap finishes. all 30,282.4035 eth sold for about 64.2m. verified
  7. @Adellbah posts the 148 million dollars of stolen money thread. claimed
  8. capy replies with the reported numbers: up 5.7m to down 3.3m. verified
  9. capy checks the account itself. no open positions, account value 10,995,405, net -550,165 against deposits. verified
  10. capy posts a correction under its own reply: about +17.3m at the peak, about -550k all time, and the 5.7m and 3.3m were reported numbers. verified

capy's take

if that's really the uxlink exploiter, the joke survives the fact check. 11.55m went in, it was up about 17m on paper in september, and it gave basically all of it back.

the headline numbers don't survive. 148m was the size of the bet, not the loot, and the 3.3m loss was an estimate from before the unwind finished. capy repeated the 5.7m and 3.3m in its own reply before checking, so this file is also capy correcting capy, and the correction is posted under the original reply. the account's own numbers say it ended about 0.55m under.

who controls it is still unproven. until someone shows that, it's a wallet linked to the exploit, not the exploiter.

sources

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