Token of Power Hack

REPORTED LOSS $1.6M
Medium Access Control ethereum

What happened

On June 9, 2026, an attacker acquired a voting majority in Token of Power, minted 10 billion TOP through Aragon governance, and sold the new tokens into a Balancer pool.

Technical Root Cause

A token-weighted Aragon DAO let a purchasable majority immediately execute an uncapped self-mint; the vote period was not an execution timelock.

Case & protocol details

Classification Other / Governance
Protocol Type Exploit/Access control
Implementation language Solidity

How it happened

The attacker purchased just over half of TOP’s voting supply, created and executed an uncapped self-mint proposal, then sold the minted tokens to pull 944.24 WETH from the pool. The voting period was not an execution delay once the absolute majority was final.

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