BonkDAO Attacker Moves $19M Loot Into New ‘BONK 2.0’ DAO

The post BonkDAO’s estimated $20M drain exposes how memecoin treasuries can be raided by a simple vote appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BonkDAO said a governance proposal drained about $20 million in BONK from its treasury, exposing how DAO votes can become a path to treasury funds. The group behind BONK said the proposal was malicious and that investigators had identified exchange wallets that had been used to buy BONK ahead of the vote. It added that investigators had identified exchange wallets used to buy BONK ahead of the proposal and that the DAO was working with exchanges, bridges, the Solana Foundation, and law enforcement to manage the aftermath and pursue recovery. The disclosed path points to the vote itself as a security boundary: a proposal moving through the DAO’s own decision system, with treasury assets on the other side. For DAOs with liquid treasuries, participation levels and execution delays become core security controls. Related Reading Build Finance DAO hostil

The wallet behind BonkDAO's $20 million governance attack has parked most of the stolen BONK in a multisig controlled by a newly created shadow DAO, Chainalysis said in a post on its official X account Tuesday.

The post What is a governance attack? How BonkDAO lost $20M in a single vote appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. On July 6, 2026, someone spent about four million dollars buying BONK, used it to control almost a hundred percent of a seven-wallet vote, and legally walked off with twenty million from the DAO’s treasury. No code was hacked. The voting worked exactly as designed. Here is how governance attacks work, why they are getting more common, and what actually stops them. Summary BonkDAO lost about $20 million after an attacker bought enough BONK tokens to dominate a governance vote without exploiting any code. Governance attacks allow attackers to use legitimate voting systems to approve malicious proposals when token ownership is concentrated and voter participation is low. Timelocks, quorum requirements, and emergency controls remain the main safeguards against governance attacks by making treasury takeovers harder to execute. Most crypto thefts break something: a smart-contract

On July 6, 2026, someone spent about four million dollars buying BONK, used it to control almost a hundred percent of a seven-wallet vote, and legally walked off with twenty million from the DAO’s treasury. No code was hacked. The…

The post BonkDAO Hit by $20M Treasury Hack After Malicious Governance Proposal Rocks BONK Holders appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways: The malicious governance proposal resulted in BonkDAO’s treasury losing an estimated $20 million in BONK tokens. The DAO has identified wallets associated with the attack and is engaged with exchanges, Solana Foundation and law enforcement. The incident underscores escalating governance challenges within decentralized crypto actors. BonkDAO, the DeFi initiative behind the BONK memecoin, has announced a large-scale security flaw which led to the loss of about $20M of its tokens. The attack was conducted via a malicious governance proposal, creating new worries about governance security members of decentralized ecosystems. BonkDAO was the target of a malicious governance proposal resulting in an estimated $20M worth of BONK tokens being drained from the BonkDAO treasury. During the investigation, BonkDAO identified the exchange wallets used

The post BonkDAO Reports $20 Million BONK Treasury Breach Following Governance Attack appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. BonkDAO suffered losses of around $20 million in BONK following exploitation of a malicious governance proposal affecting its treasury. The company informed the authorities and cooperated with exchanges and blockchain companies in searching for and recovering the funds. BonkDAO revealed that attackers managed to steal roughly $20 million in BONK through exploitation of the malicious governance proposal. This event happened at the project’s treasury on the Solana blockchain. According to BonkDAO, the malicious proposal allowed some entity to withdraw funds from the treasury without the consent of the whole community. The technical details of the theft and how the treasury protection mechanisms failed are not provided by the organization. BonkDAO was the target of a malicious governance proposal resulting in an estimated $20M worth of BONK tokens being drained from t

BonkDAO revealed that attackers managed to steal roughly $20 million in BONK through exploitation of the malicious governance proposal. This event happened at the project’s treasury on the Solana blockchain. According to BonkDAO, the malicious proposal allowed some entity to withdraw funds from the treasury without the consent of the

BonkDAO has disclosed that attackers have drained roughly $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury after exploiting a malicious governance proposal. According to a statement published by BonkDAO on X, the unauthorized proposal allowed an unknown entity to…