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Here’s how an Ethereum upgrade helped drain part of Binance’s $6 billion loss
What CoinDesk reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
TechBy Shaurya Malwa at CoinDesk
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- Security and resilience
- Published
- Evidence status
- Single attributed publisher report
What CoinDesk reports
On Ethereum, the attacker used a 2025 upgrade built to make ordinary wallets smarter, armed with 50 signatures from Binance's own wallet.
The immediate significance
The report describes direct security exposure for users, funds or software. The immediate significance is the potential harm; the confirmed scale and any protective action require technical or primary evidence beyond the publisher summary.
What remains unknown
- The publisher summary does not contain the complete victim, transaction or technical evidence.
- The report does not establish the final loss or exposure, or whether remediation is complete.
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
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