Cryptocurrency7 Jul 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: BONK faces $20 million treasury drain after attacker spends $4 million to pass…

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin's tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group's holdings to a wallet they controlled, then be…

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin's tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group's holdings to a wallet they controlled, then began selling. An attacker used BONK DAO’s onchain governance system to pass a proposal that automatically drained about $20 million in BONK tokens from the project’s treasury. By spending roughly $4.4 million to buy just over 1 percent of BONK’s supply, the attacker met the quorum threshold, effectively becoming a single decisive voter in…

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