A hacker transformed a quarter‑dollar worth of Bitcoin into 46 billion counterfeit BTC tokens on a DeFi bridge
In early 2024 a startling exploit rippled through the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, highlighting both the promise and the perils of permissionless finance. An unknown attacker, starting with a modest investment of just 25 cents worth of Bitcoin, managed to generate an astronomical quantity of fake Bitcoin‑derived tokens—approximately 46 billion syBTC—by exploiting a pair of software bug…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.