{"id":90036,"date":"2025-10-20T10:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=90036"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:45:22","slug":"astra-nova-attributes-token-plunge-to-market-maker-account-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/astra-nova-attributes-token-plunge-to-market-maker-account-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Astra Nova Attributes Token Plunge to Market Maker Account Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astra Nova attributed the recent plunge of its newly launched RVV token to the hacking of one of its <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-market-maker\">market maker<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We had an amazing launch thanks to the incredible support of our community and the hard work of our entire team. Unfortunately, one of our MM account (3rd party) was compromised, and a malicious actor gained control and began liquidating assets.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious Wallet -\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Astra Nova (@Astra__Nova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astra__Nova\/status\/1979691859762155809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, one of our market maker accounts (belonging to a third-party partner) was compromised, and a malicious actor gained access and began liquidating assets,\u201d the project team stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-3cdf0d01d015fa8a-7338605488536595.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-267806\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The RVV token fell from $0.028 to $0.007. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/astra-nova\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a>.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The developers informed exchanges of the incident and are collaborating with on-chain experts to investigate. They noted that the project&#8217;s smart contracts and infrastructure have been audited and remain secure.<\/p>\n<p>On October 19, an analyst known as EmberCN reported that the alleged perpetrator sold about 8.6% of the total token supply for 10.2 million <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-tether-usdt\">USDT<\/a>. Of this, 8.226 million coins were transferred to Gate and KuCoin exchanges; 2.041 million remain in wallet 0x643.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"zh\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4e00\u5171\u662f\u6709 8.6 \u4ebf\u679a\u7684 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24RVV&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$RVV<\/a> (\u603b\u91cf\u7684 8.6%) \u4ece\u9879\u76ee\u65b9\u94f8\u5e01\u5408\u7ea6\u8f6c\u51fa\u540e\uff0c\u5728\u94fe\u4e0a\u88ab\u629b\u552e\uff0c\u81f4\u4f7f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24RVV&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$RVV<\/a> \u4e25\u91cd\u4e0b\u8dcc\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\u8fd9 8.6 \u4ebf\u679a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24RVV&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$RVV<\/a> \u88ab\u51fa\u552e\u6362\u5f97\u4e86 1028.8 \u4e07 USDT\uff0c\u5176\u4e2d 822.6 \u4e07 USDT \u88ab\u8f6c\u8fdb\u4e86 Gate \u548c Kucoin\uff0c\u53e6\u5916 204.1 \u4e07 USDT \u8fd8\u5728\u94fe\u4e0a\u94b1\u5305 0x643\u3002\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RMmOlvRFzd\">pic.twitter.com\/RMmOlvRFzd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u4f59\u70ec (@EmberCN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmberCN\/status\/1979749502388142128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>EmberCN questioned the narrative of token theft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhat hacker would exchange stolen assets for USDT and just hold them? Moreover, transferring directly to centralized exchanges is foolish. USDT can be frozen, and funds on a <span data-descr=\"centralized exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CEX<\/span> are easily traceable. Have you ever seen such a naive hacker?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Astra Nova team promised to repurchase the volume of tokens affected by the incident. The developers also called on on-chain analysts and Chainalysis specialists to help recover the stolen funds for a 10% reward.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker was offered the chance to return the assets voluntarily\u2014in which case they too would receive 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Astra Nova is a Saudi Arabia-based entertainment ecosystem powered by artificial intelligence. The project employs AI for developing games and applications. Among the company&#8217;s products are an eponymous RPG based on Unreal Engine 5, a mini-app in Telegram Deviants: Fight Club, and the comic platform NovaToon.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, overall losses in the digital asset industry due to hacking attacks in the third quarter <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/crypto-industry-losses-from-hacks-drop-by-37-in-q3\">decreased<\/a> by 37% to $509 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astra Nova attributed the recent plunge of its newly launched RVV token to the hacking of one of its market maker accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Astra Nova linked RVV token's fall to a market maker account hack.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,2016],"class_list":["post-90036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-collapse"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"176","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Astra Nova linked RVV token's fall to a market maker account hack.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90036","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=90036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90037,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90036\/revisions\/90037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}