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BREAKING: Essentia crowdsale reopened to allow 5 ETH worth of tokens to be purchased at 1000x discount (1/2)

Between 17:46 and 18:27 UTC earlier today, a number of interesting events transpired on the Essentia crowdsale contract [1]


Sequence of events

- The admin increased the cap with setMaxCap() to 6865401549824066800000 [2]
- The admin called setPubEnd() to 2018-07-17 21:05:32 [3]
- A user sent 5.1397 ETH to the newly reopened crowdsale contract [4]
- Within the same block, the admin changed the token price with the function setPrice [5]. Due to transaction ordering, this didn't affect the previous purchase.
- The admin calls setPubEnd() to a time in the past to close the crowdsale [6]
- Our mystery user withdraws their 55580 ESS tokens [7]
- A new end date is set, opening the contract once more [8]
- Our mystery user sends 5.1324 ETH. The new token price is now in place. [9]
- Crowdsale is closed again [10]
- Our mystery user withdraws their 55525290 ESS tokens, bought at the new price [11]

The 2nd token purchase price was 1000x cheaper


A look at the flow of transactions shows that the intent was to allow a purchase of approx 5 ETH to receive a huge amount of tokens. This didn't go to plan the first time because setPrice() confirmed too slowly, so the purchase had to be repeated.

1 ETH = 10813 ESS at crowdsale. The purchaser now has 5005 ETH worth of ESS tokens for appox 10 ETH.

@icosdaily has reached out to Essentia for an explanation.