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Bondly Finance: Infinite Mint (Compromised or Insider Minting Key)

Someone minted 373 million BONDLY tokens from a single unprotected minting address, dumped them in batches of 100,000, crashed the price 80%, and sent $4.8M to Tornado Cash — while Bondly blamed an "unknown party."

Occurred 2021-07-15 Loss $6M Status closed

Summary #

Bondly Finance suffered a NFT Platform / Multi-service token platform on 2021-07-15, resulting in a loss of approximately $6M.

What happened #

Someone minted 373 million BONDLY tokens from a single unprotected minting address, dumped them in batches of 100,000, crashed the price 80%, and sent $4.8M to Tornado Cash — while Bondly blamed an "unknown party."

Linked factors #

  • RD-F-027 — causal : ★ Single admin EOA — when value mentions key compromise [via realtime_signals/Governance/admin action (Y/N): Y — the minting key had unilateral control; its use was the exploit]
  • RD-F-101 — illustrative : Large governance proposal queued — RT signal would have fired [via realtime_signals/Governance/admin action (Y/N): Y — the minting key had unilateral control; its use was the exploit]