TechFlow news — According to Aeternity's official Twitter account, the Aeternity (AE) network suffered a 51% attack yesterday. Core members of the Aeternity community disclosed that the attack resulted in losses exceeding 39 million AE tokens. The official team is currently addressing the issue. Exchanges and mining pools were primarily affected, with exchanges including OKEx, Gate, and Binance.
In response, "Er Yue Honghong," moderator of the Aeternity community forum, stated that a 51% attack does not create new tokens. It can be understood as the attacker duplicating their own tokens to create counterfeit versions, which are then sent to exchanges for withdrawal. Exchanges usually bear the brunt of such attacks, and mining pools face similar risks. Therefore, a 51% attack is not a technical vulnerability—this is simply how the POW mechanism operates—and the team will not provide compensation.
