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9 Jun 2026, 07:45
Humanity Protocol Exploited for Over $30M as Hacker Mints 200M Tokens, $H Crashes 90%
One of crypto’s hottest identity narratives just collapsed in real time. Humanity Protocol $H, the project that had been riding a wave of buzz around biometric identity on blockchain, has been exploited for more than $30 million. The token has crashed up to 90% in a matter of hours, the attacker is still holding tens of millions of dollars worth of $H ready to sell, and ZachXBT is already on the scene with accusations that cut far deeper than the hack itself. The Exploit Unfolds In Real Time Lookonchain was one of first to flag the attack, reporting that wallets linked to or previously interacting with Humanity Protocol were being drained as an active exploit unfolded. Initial loss estimates came in around $19 million before climbing rapidly. Within hours, the figure had crossed $30 million and was still moving. Humanity( @Humanityprot ) has been exploited, with losses exceeding $30M! The hacker is currently dumping $H and swapping it for $ETH . $H has already crashed ~90%. https://t.co/0Bhtu6TZDr pic.twitter.com/cNGO70PHDH — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 9, 2026 The attacker’s method was aggressive and straightforward. They began dumping $H tokens immediately, rotating the proceeds into ETH to lock in value before the market could fully process what was happening. By the time the full picture emerged, the hacker had already obtained 18,510 ETH worth approximately $30.83 million and an additional 1,548 BNB worth around $924,000 purely from selling $H into whatever liquidity remained. $H responded the way any token does when a large seller with unlimited supply hits an illiquid market, it collapsed. The token crashed between 80% and 90% from its intraday highs in the space of a few hours, erasing months of price appreciation and the entire identity narrative that had been built around the project. The Hacker Mints 200 Million Tokens On BSC Then things got significantly worse. A follow-up alert from Lookonchain revealed that the Humanity hacker had minted 100 million $H tokens on Binance Smart Chain, and then minted another 100 million on top of that. Note that the #Humanity hacker has minted another 100M $H on BSC. By selling $H , the hacker has already obtained 18,510 $ETH ($30.83M) and 1,548 $BNB ($924K). The hacker still holds 111.36M $H ($14M) ready to be sold. However, on-chain liquidity is nearly exhausted. https://t.co/vSArj5j185 pic.twitter.com/aA56QhdNDr — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) June 9, 2026 Two separate minting events, 200 million tokens created from nothing, each worth tens of millions of dollars at pre-crash prices and still carrying meaningful sell value even at the decimated post-crash price. At the time of reporting, the attacker still holds 111.36 million $H valued at approximately $14 million, a loaded gun pointed at whatever on-chain liquidity remains. The problem is that liquidity is nearly exhausted. The market has already absorbed an enormous volume of forced selling, and the depth to absorb another $14 million exit simply may not be there. What happens when an attacker with $14 million in tokens cannot find buyers is a question the Humanity Protocol community is now staring down directly. The minting events are the most alarming part of this story because they go beyond a standard private key compromise or bridge exploit. Someone was able to create new token supply at will, which raises fundamental questions about the protocol’s smart contract architecture and access control design that the team has not yet answered. The Team Confirms a Private Key Compromise We're aware of a security incident involving the compromise of private keys belonging to a member of the Humanity Foundation. The safety of our community is our top priority, and we want to be fully transparent about what we know. As a precaution, please do NOT interact with the… — Humanity (@Humanityprot) June 9, 2026 Humanity Protocol’s official account posted a statement acknowledging the incident. The team confirmed they are aware of a security incident involving the compromise of private keys belonging to a member of the Humanity Foundation. They urged the community to stop interacting with the bridge or any liquidity pools immediately, stating it is the single most important step users can take to protect their funds right now. The statement said the team is working with leading security experts and exchange partners to assess the scope of the incident and secure all affected systems. They apologised directly, “we’re deeply sorry that this has happened”, and committed to sharing only verified updates rather than speculating before facts are confirmed. Official updates, they stressed, will come only from the main account or co-founder Terence Kwok’s personal account. The acknowledgment of a private key compromise is significant. It suggests this was not purely a smart contract vulnerability but rather a situation where someone with privileged access, either a team member or someone who gained access to their credentials, was able to execute the minting and draining operations. That distinction matters for how the community and exchanges respond going forward. ZachXBT Fires At The Project’s Credibility While the team was issuing damage control statements, ZachXBT arrived with a different kind of message. The on-chain investigator was not interested in sympathy for the project. His post was blunt: the team chose to pump their token for weeks with zero fundamentals and now expects Crypto Twitter to blindly trust their story. He demanded the team disclose their active market maker agreements with a Hong Kong entity before asking for community trust. You choose to crime pump your token for weeks with zero fundamentals and think CT will blindly trust your story? Disclose your active MM agreements with the HK entity first…. — ZachXBT (@zachxbt) June 9, 2026 The accusation is serious and lands hard in the context of what just happened. If the token was being artificially pumped through coordinated market making activity with no fundamental backing, then the exploit did not just destroy a legitimate project, it destroyed a project that was already operating in questionable territory. That changes the moral calculus of community sympathy significantly and explains why ZachXBT is not treating this purely as a victim story. What the Humanity Protocol Collapse Means for Identity Tokens The broader lesson here cuts across the entire identity narrative space in crypto. Humanity Protocol had all the surface ingredients that attract attention, biometric verification, a compelling vision for on-chain identity, partnerships, and a price chart that suggested momentum. None of that survived contact with a compromised private key and an attacker who knew exactly how to monetise unlimited minting access. When a token loses trust in its supply integrity, the road back is significantly harder than recovering from a bear market or a bad news cycle. Markets can forgive price crashes. They struggle to forgive the revelation that someone was able to create unlimited tokens at will and drain tens of millions of dollars out the door before anyone could stop them. Until Humanity Protocol publishes a full post-mortem, discloses the scope of the minting exploit, and addresses ZachXBT’s market maker allegations directly, the community has no reliable foundation on which to rebuild confidence, and the attacker still has $14 million in tokens ready to sell. Disclosure: This is not trading or investment advice. Always do your research before buying any cryptocurrency or investing in any services. Follow us on Twitter @nulltxnews to stay updated with the latest Crypto, NFT, AI, Cybersecurity, Distributed Computing, and Metaverse news !
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9 Jun 2026, 07:30
New XRP Lending Protocol Gets Formal Verification In Push For Safer DeFi
RippleX Developers said formal verification work on the XRP Ledger is moving from the long-running Payment Engine to newer native DeFi protocols, including Single Asset Vault and the upcoming Lending Protocol, marking a shift toward proving protocol correctness before high-stakes features are shipped. In a June 8 post , Vito Tumas, writing for RippleX Developers, said the new focus follows an exploratory phase earlier this year with Common Prefix, which helped define the technical scope and strategy for applying formal methods to XRPL’s next generation of native financial primitives. “This pivot represents a change in how we approach protocol-native feature development,” Tumas wrote. “Rather than a safety net, we will embed formal verification practices from day one, specifying and verifying complex new features . We are making provable protocol correctness a design property.” Why This Matters For The XRP Ledger The distinction matters because XRPL’s approach to DeFi differs from networks where lending, vaults and other financial logic typically live in separate smart contracts. According to RippleX, the XRP Ledger embeds its DeFi primitives directly into its core C++ architecture. That design can bring performance and integration benefits, but it also raises the cost of failure. As the post framed it, a bug in an external smart contract may be isolated or replaced. A vulnerability in core Layer-1 C++ code can have ledger-wide implications. That is the security backdrop for the formal verification push around Single Asset Vault and the Lending Protocol, both of which introduce more complex native economic logic to XRPL. RippleX said the complexity is not mainly about the volume of code. Instead, the central challenge lies in preserving numerical precision across multiple sequential operations, where small rounding issues must not be allowed to compound into larger accounting errors. In lending markets and vault systems, that kind of precision is not a secondary detail; it is part of the economic design. “Formal verification is the natural tool for this class of problem,” Tumas wrote, describing it as a way to mathematically prove the correctness of these mechanisms and establish a standard for native DeFi primitives that follow. The post contrasted formal verification with conventional testing. Unit tests, integration tests and system tests can validate specific scenarios that engineers anticipate, including expected user flows and adversarial interactions. The limitation, RippleX argued, is that engineers can only test the cases they think to write. “For a DeFi protocol with near-infinite state space, that ceiling is low,” Tumas wrote. “Testing confirms the system behaves correctly in the scenarios it was asked about; it cannot speak to the ones it wasn’t.” Formal verification changes the question. Rather than asking whether a given input produces the right output, the process builds an abstract model of intended protocol behavior in a precise language that computers can analyze. The key question becomes whether the model can behave incorrectly under any expressible condition. RippleX also outlined how that model can connect back to the production implementation. An “oracle” derived from the proven model can serve as a source of truth against which the xrpld implementation is continuously checked. The same inputs are fed into both the oracle and the C++ implementation, and any deviation in output is flagged. “In collaboration with Common Prefix, we are applying this methodology to the Single Asset Vault and the Lending Protocol, ” Tumas wrote. “The modelling phase has already surfaced edge cases that standard tests missed, not as a sign of weakness, but as evidence that formal verification is working exactly as intended. These are early results, but they reflect a methodology with decades of proof behind it, now within reach of mainstream engineering.” At press time, XRP traded at $1.17.
9 Jun 2026, 07:30
The XRP Dream Has Changed: Why A Rally To $10 Could Happen Despite Disappointment
After long years of muted performance, the XRP price had rebounded in 2024, pushing close to its $3.8 all-time high, but not quite hitting the mark. This comes after the legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ended in 2024, triggering a wave of recovery. Since then, though, the XRP price seems to have hit a ceiling and has been on a downtrend for over a year. This has pushed the price toward $1, an over 60% decline from its 2024 peaks. Despite this, predictions continue to pour in that the price moving above $10 is only a matter of time as XRP continues to be one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the space. The XRP Dream Has Changed From $1 Crypto analyst Crypto Patel took to the X (formerly Twitter) platform to explain where the investor mindset is sitting at now and how the dream seems to have changed. Pointing to historical performance, the analyst recalls how the dream was for XRP to actually reach $1 back when it was trading at around $0.003 back in 2017. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Worst Week Since FTX Raises The Question: Is The Bottom Already In? However, in an interesting twist, the level that was the dream for every XRP holder back then has now become a level at which many are lamenting about. Instead of joining this train of complaint, though, Crypto Patel points out that even the current level is a major step up from where the XRP price used to be. Sitting above $1 right now, it means that the XRP price has staged an over 37,000% rally from its lows. Thus, what is being seen as a decline could also be a cause for celebration, depending on the perspective that investors are looking at it from. When To Start Buying Again With the sentiment around the current level beating down investors, the crypto analyst is looking at lower levels to begin accumulating the cryptocurrency again. The highest accumulation zone from here sits at $1, which would be an over 10% decline from the price at the time of this report. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts When Bitcoin Price Will Reach $100,000 In 2026 Then moving further downward, the crypto analyst believes that the XRP price could fall as low as $0.6. This would then put the accumulation zone between $0.6 and $1, meaning that the bottom is expected to be reached around these two levels. Nevertheless, the analyst says that the play for $10 remains intact even now. Mostly, it is a matter of time and patience when it comes to how high the XRP price could go. But the bullish narrative over the long-term continues to prevail. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
9 Jun 2026, 07:29
Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson makes a bold prediction for the trillion dollar trust barrier! What is the new vision?
🚀 Charles Hoskinson claims $ADA is built to solve the global trust crisis. 🌎 Cardano targets trillion dollar inefficiencies caused by centralized systems. 🛡️ The project emphasizes long term vision over short term price surges. Continue Reading: Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson makes a bold prediction for the trillion dollar trust barrier! What is the new vision? The post Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson makes a bold prediction for the trillion dollar trust barrier! What is the new vision? appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
