BounceBit to shutter its chain and migrate to BNB Chain after $3 million exploit
The exploit-to-migration cycle is grinding through the smaller end of the layer-1 market again, this time at BounceBit's expense. An attacker transferred approximately 286.5 million BB tokens from nine wallets before block…
By Yuki Tanaka · 2 min read
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