{"id":68452,"date":"2022-10-12T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T09:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68452"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T11:10:26","slug":"bnb-chain-to-hard-fork-after-100-million-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bnb-chain-to-hard-fork-after-100-million-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"BNB Chain to hard fork after $100 million hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BNB Chain team is implementing an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bnb-chain\/bsc\/releases\/tag\/v1.1.16\">update<\/a> to the network as an emergency fix following the BSC Token Hub cross-chain bridge hack worth $100 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-hard-fork\">Hard fork<\/a> Moran will occur on the mainnet at block #22,107,423, and on the testnet at #23,603,940.<\/p>\n<p>The update is designed to restore the internal cross-chain infrastructure between the BNB Beacon Chain governance chain and the BNB Smart Chain&#8217;s consensus layer. The update includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>fix the iavl hash-check vulnerability;<\/li>\n<li>introduce a block header into the CrossChain contract sequence verification;<\/li>\n<li>implement a whitelist of candidates for network relays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced a temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals in BEP20 tokens. Trading on the platform will not be affected by the update.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Binance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Binance<\/a> will perform wallet maintenance for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BNB?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BNB<\/a> Smart Chain network (BEP20) from 03:00am UTC on October 12, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Deposits and withdrawals will be temporarily suspended and will reopen once the maintenance is completed.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KCkqxq8MGx\">https:\/\/t.co\/KCkqxq8MGx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Binance (@binance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/binance\/status\/1579769650745069569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>An unknown attacker on October 6 hacked the BSC Token Hub and stole digital assets worth $544 million, but <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-chain-team-restores-network-after-100-million-hack\">managed to withdraw only $100 million<\/a>. The BNB Chain team paused the network and resumed it after a few hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-chain-team-to-vote-on-next-steps-after-bridge-hack\">announced a community vote<\/a> on the next steps after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BNB Chain team is implementing a network update as an emergency fix after the BSC Token Hub cross-chain bridge hack worth $100 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,1307,268],"class_list":["post-68452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-bnb-chain","tag-hardfork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68454,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68452\/revisions\/68454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}