Newton Foundation: Binance attacker mistakenly transferred tokens worth approximately $3.5 million into the NEWT contract, now permanently locked.

2026-10-30 21:27 Source： x.com Event types： Online/Update 、 Security/Hacker 、 Marketing/Whale

According to a post by the Newton Foundation (@NewtonFndn), the attacker involved in the recent Binance breach appears to have made an operational error, directly transferring approximately 8 million NEWT tokens, along with 17 other tokens (ANIME, ANKR, ARPA, BARD, CELR, DENT, DOLO, FTT, GLM, HIGH, HOT, KNC, LQTY, RARE, RESOLV, SIGN, WOO) to the NEWT token contract address (0xd0ec028a3d21533fdd200838f39c85b03679285d). Valued at current prices, the total amounts to approximately $3.5 million. The foundation stated that the NEWT token contract itself was not compromised. Featuring an immutable design with no owner or administrator, all management rights were relinquished on-chain in 2025, and upgrade functionality has been permanently disabled. As a result, no one, including the foundation, can retrieve these tokens.

Newton Foundation: Binance attacker mistakenly transferred tokens worth approximately $3.5 million into the NEWT contract, now permanently locked.

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