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 startling exploit that turned a modest investment of just a quarter‑dollar worth of Bitcoin into an astronomical amount of counterfeit Bitcoin‑derived tokens. The attacker, exploiting two separate software bugs in the Symbiosis DeFi bridge, succeeded in creating roughly 46 billion fake BTC‑linked tokens, known as syBTC, whi…
Sept. 15, 2026, 1:43 p.m.