A hacker transformed a quarter-dollar worth of Bitcoin into 46 billion counterfeit BTC tokens via a DeFi bridge
In early 2024 a relatively modest investment—just 25 cents worth of Bitcoin—was turned into a staggering 46 billion fake Bitcoin tokens on a decentralized finance (DeFi) bridge, exposing how a pair of software vulnerabilities can be weaponised to create massive amounts of counterfeit digital assets. The incident, which unfolded on the Symbiosis bridge, demonstrates the fragility of cross‑chain li…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.