BounceBit Plans BNB Chain Migration After $3 Million Exploit
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BounceBit, a crypto project, will shut down its standalone Layer 1 and migrate to BNB Chain after an attacker stole roughly $3 million in BB tokens, moving about 286.5 million BB across nine wallets. The Evmos-based chain had an authorization flaw that let contract callers spoof funding sources without approval, forcing a 40-minute halt to block production; the team says private keys, signatures, wallets and exchange accounts were not compromised, but the incident raises material security and adoption risks for the protocol and its DeFi products.
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BounceBit will shut down its standalone Layer 1 network after an attacker stole roughly $3 million in BB tokens. The company will instead migrate the project to BNB Chain, where most of its products and users already operate.
The decision follows an authorization flaw that exposed weaknesses within the Evmos-based blockchain. Consequently, BounceBit halted block production about 40 minutes after detecting the attack.
Exploit Forces Major Network Change
The attacker moved about 286.5 million BB tokens across nine wallets during the incident. The vulnerability allowed a contract caller to identify another account as the funding source. However, the system failed to verify whether that account approved the transaction.
Significantly, the attack did not compromise private keys, signatures, wallets, or exchange accounts. Additionally, BounceBit said its CeDeFi, Prime, Pr…
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