Zano Says Over $200M in Illicit Tokens Led to 30-Day Blockchain Rewind

First reported October 1, 2026 by Bitcoin.com News · covered by 2 sources

Zano Says Over $200M in Illicit Tokens Led to 30-Day Blockchain Rewind

Zano has disclosed the bug that forced its extraordinary 30-day blockchain rewind in a recent postmortem. An attacker exploited a missing verification in Gateway Addresses to mint roughly 18.4 million ZANO in a single transaction, then repeated the trick and did the same with fUSD. The first exploit sat unnoticed for nearly a month, while […]

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Oct 1, 2026 · byBitcoin.com News

Zano exploiter created 36.9M unauthorized ZANO before blockchain rollback

The unauthorized coins were indistinguishable from legitimate ZANO, leaving the team unable to remove them without rolling back the blockchain.

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Oct 2, 2026 · byCointelegraph