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Truebit Exploit Drains 8,535 ETH as TRU Plunges 99%

Investigators link the theft to a five-year-old contract pricing bug that enabled zero-cost mints.

Overview

  • Truebit confirmed the breach and urged users to avoid the affected purchase contract at 0x764C64b2A09b09Acb100B80d8c505Aa6a0302EF2.
  • On-chain analysts including Lookonchain and CertiK corroborated losses of roughly 8,535 ETH, valued at about $26–26.6 million.
  • The flaw in the getPurchasePrice function returned a zero price on large mint requests, enabling repeated buy‑sell loops against the bonding curve.
  • Investigators traced consolidation of proceeds into a primary address with roughly half of the ETH quickly routed through Tornado Cash, and one transaction invoked a function labeled “Attack” with a small builder bribe reported.
  • Truebit said it is working with law enforcement and has not announced a recovery or compensation plan as liquidity and confidence in TRU evaporated.