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Story: Cosmos EVM Bug Sparks Outrage After $16.5 Million Theft Hits KiiChain and TAC

By Sydney TheCMO

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The Disclosure Fight at the Center of This. The technical bug itself is almost secondary now. What's really driving the anger is the process —…

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A Pattern That's Hard to Ignore. And it's not the first time. Earlier this year, in January, Saga EVM lost around $7 million in a…

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A silent patch. A public disclosure. And then $16.5 million gone.

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Cosmos Labs is taking serious heat after a bug in its Cosmos EVM module hit four blockchains — MANTRA, TAC, KiiChain, and Nesa — and the way the developer handled the whole…

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MANTRA and Nesa moved fast. They preemptively stopped their chains, and user funds came out untouched.

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KiiChain and TAC weren't so lucky. On August 22, KiiChain got hit hard — nearly 150 million KII tokens stolen, valued at over $9 million at the time.

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TAC lost even more tokens by volume. Three billion TAC tokens were drained from its staking contract, worth roughly $7.5 million.

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Cosmos Labs didn't post a public warning through its official channels before the patch went live.

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MANTRA and Nesa's ability to halt preemptively suggests someone got the message in time — or at least reacted fast enough on their own.

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The broader debate here isn't new in crypto security circles. Responsible disclosure — the practice of privately warning affected parties before going public with a vulnerability…

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And it's not the first time. Earlier this year, in January, Saga EVM lost around $7 million in a similar exploit targeting the Cosmos EVM module.

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The January Saga incident should have been a loud signal that the Cosmos EVM module needed serious attention and probably a rethink of how patches get communicated to the…

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Networks using the Cosmos EVM module are probably asking hard questions right now about their own exposure.

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