A hacker transformed a quarter‑dollar of Bitcoin into 46 billion counterfeit BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
In early 2024, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was shaken by a dramatic exploit that highlighted both the innovative potential and the lingering technical fragilities of cross‑chain bridging protocols. The incident centered on a single malicious actor who, starting with a modest investment of just 25 cents worth of Bitcoin, managed to create an astronomically inflated amount of synthet…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.