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An eclipse attack and a fallback-validation gap made Alephium guardians sign unauthorized asset movements.

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Alephium TokenBridge's hosted watcher, full-node, and guardian infrastructure connecting Alephium with Ethereum and BNB Chain.

The fallback path accepted a crafted bridge-formatted event without normal validation, producing guardian signatures that could withdraw collateral and mint unbacked wALPH.

Detail and 2 sources

Alephium reports that the chain was used and has published a fix.

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Saturday, September 5, 2026