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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 1, 2026Published at 1:55 AM EDT · New York
An Abandoned Balancer Pool Lost $234,000 to a Rounding Bug That Minted Tokens for One Satoshi
Term Labs separately lost about $8.5 million after near-zero voter turnout let a single wallet bypass its seven-day governance delay.
DeFiHackLabs published a reproducible proof-of-concept for the drain of a legacy Balancer V1 pool, in which an attacker took about $234,000 on Aug. 31. The vector was the pool's joinswapPoolAmountOut function, which lets a caller state how…
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Bridge and Mint Exploits Sustain Heavy DeFi Losses
Over 3-6 months, recurring bridge proof-validation and unauthorized-mint exploits keep monthly DeFi losses elevated, including drains of deprecated contracts.
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