Onyx DAO malicious proposal treasury drain (Oct 2026)
- Scam type: Hack
- Chain: EVM (Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base and other EVM chains)
- Reported: 2026-10-14
- Last updated: 2026-10-16
Onyx DAO on Ethereum reportedly lost about $2.91M on 2026-10-06 after a governance proposal cleared a two-day timelock and moved ~620M XCN from the DAO treasury to attacker-controlled wallets. Per Blackpaper BP-1321 (https://blackpaper.wiki/incident/BP-1321/), citing Blockaid early alert. How voting power was obtained is not confirmed. This is a distinct 2026 DAO governance incident, not the 2023 Onyx Protocol fork exploit on rekt.news. Addresses Blackpaper labels as Exploiter: - 0xcBbA8B308c29c22158f5602793FE1eA361AfB9e0 - 0xb12aD23d4394A41C859d48c73CEd40Be6BF758c4 Low confidence: based on…
Other addresses in this report: 0xb12ad23d4394a41c859d48c73ced40be6bf758c4