{"id":80630,"date":"2026-04-13T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80630"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:33:16","slug":"dot-plunges-7-in-minutes-as-hackers-exploit-polkadot-bridge-to-mint-1-billion-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=80630","title":{"rendered":"DOT Plunges 7% in Minutes as Hackers Exploit Polkadot Bridge to Mint 1 Billion Tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Polkadot\u2019s native token plunged by over 7% in minutes after reports emerged that a hacker minted a billion tokens on the Ethereum mainnet and sold them off.<\/p>\n<p>The asset traded at $1.24 before it plunged immediately to $1.15, but managed to recover some ground and now trades around $1.20.<\/p>\n<p>Arkham <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arkham\/status\/2043572272829755520\">reported<\/a> that an unknown attacker minted one billion DOT on Ethereum and sold them straight into the liquidity pool. Thus, they removed over $240,000 in ETH across multiple transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Lookonchain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2043558598111048126\">confirmed<\/a> the exploit and the attacker\u2019s profit, which was $237,000 (108.2 ETH).<\/p>\n<p>Wu Blockchain cited data from Certik, which blamed the attack on a vulnerability in the Hyperbridge gateway, which allowed the bad actors to forge messages and manipulate the administrator of a Polkadot token contract on Ethereum.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just In: Hackers minted 1 billion DOT tokens on the Ethereum mainnet and then sold them off.<\/p>\n<p>According to Certik, the attack was primarily due to a Hyperbridge gateway vulnerability, which allowed attackers to forge messages and manipulate the administrator of a Polkadot token\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2H9w9HqQBg\">pic.twitter.com\/2H9w9HqQBg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WuBlockchain\/status\/2043559964070056306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/dot-plunges-7-in-minutes-as-hackers-exploit-polkadot-bridge-to-mint-1-billion-tokens\/\">DOT Plunges 7% in Minutes as Hackers Exploit Polkadot Bridge to Mint 1 Billion Tokens<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polkadot\u2019s native token plunged by over 7% in minutes after reports emerged that a hacker minted a billion tokens on the Ethereum mainnet and sold them off. The asset traded at $1.24 before it plunged immediately to $1.15, but managed to recover some ground and now trades around $1.20. Arkham reported that an unknown attacker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-80630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}