DeFi & NFT

Story: Butter Bridge Hack Mints 1 Quadrillion MAPO Tokens, Wiping Out Nearly a Third of Token Value

By James Thorp

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What the Attacker Actually Walked Away With. Not everything, as it turns out. The attacker swapped a portion of the illegitimate tokens fast…

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MAP Protocol Team Stays Silent. And that's probably the part that's making investors most nervous right now.

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Bridge Exploits Keep Coming in 2026. Cross-chain bridges have been a recurring weak point across DeFi for years.

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MAP Protocol's Butter Bridge got hit hard on May 20, 2026. Attackers exploited a flaw in the bridge's smart contract and minted 1 quadrillion MAPO tokens — a number so absurd it…

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Security firm PeckShield traced the problem to Butter Bridge V3.1's OmniServiceProxy contract.

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Before the exploit, MAPO was trading at around $0.003. Not a big price, but a functioning market. After the attack, it fell to $0.001558 — a drop of nearly 30%.

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The math on dilution here is almost comical if you're not the one holding the bag. Going from 208 million tokens in circulation to 1 quadrillion in a single transaction is the…

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And that's probably the part that's making investors most nervous right now. The MAP Protocol team hasn't put out a formal statement.

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The project pitches itself as a secure interoperability layer for Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenized assets.

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Read also: Bankr Shuts Down All Transactions After Hack Hits 14 User Wallets

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Without any communication from the team, users and investors are left guessing. Are the bridges paused? Is the contract being patched? Will there be a token recovery mechanism?

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In the meantime, investors are being advised to stay away from MAPO pools and any bridge connected to the affected infrastructure until there's official guidance.

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Cross-chain bridges have been a recurring weak point across DeFi for years. The architecture is genuinely hard to secure — you're essentially building a trust mechanism between…

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The promise of cross-chain interoperability is real. Moving assets between chains without relying on centralized intermediaries is a legitimate use case, and protocols like MAP…

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See also: Echo Protocol Loses $77 Million as Admin Key Breach Hands Hacker Control of eBTC

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