BONK DAO lost $20 MILLION without being hacked.



Here's what happened:

- An attacker bought ~$4M of BONK tokens.

- They created a fake governance proposal to send 4.4 trillion BONK ($20M) to their own wallet.

- The proposal went unnoticed for 7 days.

- At the last minute, they used their voting power to approve it.
The DAO automatically sent the tokens.

- The attacker sold them, turning $4M into $20M.

This wasn't a smart contract hack, the attacker simply bought enough voting power to approve a malicious proposal.

BONK DAO says it has notified law enforcement and is working to recover the funds.
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· 2h ago
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RetroRadioSignal
· 3h ago
Not a contract vulnerability, but more ironic than being hacked—robbery within the rules, code justice indeed.
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BoredInBlockspace
· 5h ago
DAO governance voting rights can be bought, so what's the difference from auctioning board seats? The system wasn't designed to prevent whales from the start.
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OrdersPlacedBeforeTheStorm
· 5h ago
For 7 days, no one has looked at the proposal, so community governance is basically a mere formality.
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