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Binance hacker token swap turns $5M in PROM into just $71 in Ether

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A token swap by a wallet linked to the Binance hacker exchanged PROM valued at about $5 million for just $71 in Ether , according to details reported by Lookonchain and shared publicly on November 1, 2026. The wallet sold into a nearly empty Uniswap V2 pool, losing close to the entire reported value of its position. Key takeaways The wallet exchanged 908,793 PROM on Uniswap V2. Its payout was only 0.0316 Ether. Almost nonexistent pool liquidity produced extreme slippage. The Binance hacker-linked token swap in numbers The wallet exchanged 908,793 PROM tokens and received 0.0316 Ether , Lookonchain reported. The blockchain analytics account attributed the wallet to the Binance hacker. The two dollar figures measure different sides of the transaction.

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