A Hacker Transformed 25 Cents Worth of Bitcoin into 46 Billion Counterfeit BTC Tokens via a DeFi Bridge
In early 2024, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was shaken by a spectacular exploit that turned a modest investment of just a quarter‑dollar worth of Bitcoin into an astronomically inflated supply of counterfeit Bitcoin tokens. The attacker, whose identity remains concealed, managed to generate approximately 46 billion synthetic Bitcoin (syBTC) tokens on the Symbiosis bridge, a cross‑ch…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.