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Paid Network Exploit Mints Attacker 60M Tokens: Report

The PAID token is down some 70% as of press time on the news.

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The Paid Network – a decentralized finance (DeFi) app that loosely describes itself as a smart contract program for businesses – has been exploited through the contract’s token minting feature. Some 60 million PAID tokens, worth about $37 million at press time, have been wrongly created.

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The PAID token is down some 70% as of press time, according to CoinGecko.



William Foxley

Will Foxley is the host of The Mining Pod and publisher at Blockspace Media. A former co-host of CoinDesk's The Hash, Will was the director of content at Compass Mining and a tech reporter at CoinDesk.

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