Dear DeFiChain Community, Following the recent exploit, we believe it is important to provide an honest and comprehensive update on what happened, what has been discussed behind the scenes, and where things currently stand. This is not an easy announcement to make, but the community deserves transparency and clarity about the situation and the future of DeFiChain. What happened? On November 3, 2026, DeFiChain was hit by a critical vulnerability in its account-to-account transfer mechanism. In simple terms, the blockchain failed to correctly calculate how much DFI should be deducted from the sender's account. Due to an error in how the software handled an arithmetic overflow, it deducted only 1 satoshi (the smallest unit of DFI), while still crediting the recipients with the full amounts of the transaction. This allowed an attacker to create approximately 92.23 billion DFI out of thin air , without the corresponding funds being deducted from the sender. Unfortunately, this was not ...