Wormhole initially involved its own hackers in the 670 million token airdrop.

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Initially, the 2022 exploit in the latest airdrop event allocated tokens to wallets belonging to one or more hackers.

“Wormhole forgot to exclude exploiters from airdrops.” famous A cryptocurrency user with the pseudonym Pland on

About four addresses involved in the hack were allocated 31,600 W tokens, worth about $38,000.

The tokens were initially allocated to this address, but have now been removed from allocation, according to sources familiar with the situation.

address It was owned by a hacker who stole 120,000 ETH from the 2022 Interoperability Protocol. At the time, the hacked amount amounted to approximately $323 million, making the attack one of the largest hacks in the history of decentralized finance.

Wormhole’s airdrop event attracted significant attention from the cryptocurrency community. Initial announcementAccording to , $1.25 billion worth of W tokens have been traded since the event began. data From CoinGecko.

The price of W token, which rose to $1.66, continued to fluctuate throughout the day. It is currently $1.21 at the time of publication.

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