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May 18, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts Β· β Back to $WBTC Profile Β· Market Rankings
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15 source posts analyzedΒ· 2026-05-18T21:55:29+00:00gm @EchoProtocol_ may be hacked on @monad Someone minted 1k ebtc out of nowhere, max borrowed wbtc against it on @Curvance , bridged, and tornado away
Β· 2026-05-18T22:27:51+00:00Monad eBTC/Curvance trace: not a Curvance lending bug. The eBTC admin granted DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE to 0x6A0109, who revoked admin, self-granted MINTER_ROLE, minted 1,000 eBTC, posted 45 eBTC as collateral, and borrowed ~11.296 WBTC. Looks like admin-key/role compromise. Key
Β· 2026-05-18T22:15:19+00:00still looking into what happened here but it looks like wallet 0x6a010 minted 1000 ebtc and borrowed 11.2966 wbtc ($870k) against 45 ebtc the damage is contained to the ebtc <> wbtc market
Β· 2026-05-18T23:08:08+00:00Someone just minted 1,000 eBTC from thin air Then borrowed real WBTC against it and sent it straight to Tornado Cash Monad's co-founder just confirmed it initial investigation appears to be another admin pay compromise Dollar amount unconfirmed. Investigation active.
Β· 2026-05-18T23:22:47+00:00So the guy ran a small test first. Swapped MON β eBTC on Uniswap, deposited into Curvance, borrowed a tiny bit of WBTC just to confirm the flow worked. Then the compromised admin granted DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE to the attacker. The attacker immediately: β’ revoked the old admin β’
Β· 2026-05-18T16:34:04+00:00Bond with cross-chain assets like $wBTC or $ETH on Ethereum. Receive $SLOHM on Bitcoin L1. Cross-chain bonding is coming. Capital from across crypto flowing into Bitcoin L1 DeFi.
Β· 2026-05-18T23:40:20+00:00was looking onchain and the situation with curvances ebtc pool is not as bad as it initially seemed the hacker managed to borrow 11.29 wbtc around ~800k usd from the protocol approved an infinite wbtc allowance to a bridge contract and routed 5 wbtc around ~300k usd out via the
Β· 2026-05-18T01:27:54+00:00Whale Address Sells Cumulative $35.73 Million in WBTC Over Three Days Address 0xB4dβ¦B186a sells another $15.46 million worth of WBTC, totaling $35.73 million sold over three days. Still holds $125 million in on-chain assets, with 95% in ETH and WBTC. Ai Yi hints it may
Β· 2026-05-18T10:41:02+00:00Join Sam @hexonaut and Nadia Song (the team from @WrappedBTC ) this Wednesday for a live AMA on wBTC collateral & SparkLend. Learn how idle wrapped Bitcoin becomes productive on-chain and what that means for DeFi borrowing. Don't miss it.
Β· 2026-05-18T09:05:59+00:00WBTC on SparkLend is scaling fast. April 1: 362.09 WBTC supplied May 18: 2,541.13 WBTC supplied Demand grew so quickly that @sparkdotfi governance approved a 10x increase in the WBTC supply cap.
Β· 2026-05-18T22:58:52+00:00looks like admin private key compromise. the attacker granted itself admin, removed original admin, gave itself minter role and minted 1000 ebtc, then borrowed 11.2965 wbtc on curvance.
Β· 2026-05-18T09:00:01+00:00The rails are live! Proud to power @monarq_mgmt βs WBTC Market Neutral Yield vault, the Nasdaq-listed & AMF-regulated institutional manager with $700M+ AUM, now on Lagoon infrastructure and accessible through @Kiln_finance . Capturing BTC-denominated yield across lending
Β· 2026-05-18T13:41:44+00:00New assets, $AAVE , $WBTC , $LINK & $DAI are live on the SODAX SDK. Now available for trade to partners across 18+ blockchain networks. Applications building on SODAX pick them up automatically.
Β· 2026-05-18T02:15:47.497377+00:00Bitcoin Whale Sells Another $15.46M in WBTC, Total Reaches $35.73M in Three Days BitcoinWorld Bitcoin Whale Sells Another $15.46M in WBTC, Total Reaches $35.73M in Three Days A Bitcoin whale address, identified by the prefix 0xB4d, has sold an additional $15.46 million wo
Β· 2026-05-18T01:22:47+00:00Address 0xB4dβ¦B186a has once again dumped $15.46 million worth of $WBTC, having cumulatively sold $35.73 million in tokens over the past three days As mentioned before, this address has frequent interactions with block builder Titan builder. Currently, it still holds $125