Balancer hack: claim process
AI summary of the linked articleGnosis Chain has secured roughly $9.4 million drained from it in the November 3, 2025 Balancer V2 exploit, which took about $120–128 million across multiple chains. The response was an emergency soft fork that froze the stolen funds, followed by a hard fork on December 22, 2025 that transferred control of them to a DAO-controlled Safe multisig. Affected users can claim recovered tokens through a Merkl-powered claim page after a review period for a published CSV of addresses and amounts. The claim page includes an optional donation slider, defaulting to 5%, for teams that worked on the recovery. |
1 comment mishaSubmitter We believe that in due course, validators should not be able to censor transactions and the underlying network infrastructure should be actually blind. We commit to working towards this future, but in the meantime encourage a community discussion on how and when the community should wield this power it still has when acting in concert. |