2025-12-29 17:20:41

The Flow ecosystem experienced a significant security incident. Hackers exploited a contract vulnerability and stole $3.9 million in a single attack, with the funds transferred very quickly.

The core issue lies in the subsequent handling. The official response was to directly roll back the transaction ledger—without sufficient prior communication and coordination with ecosystem partners—before implementing this decision. From a technical perspective, rollback can indeed alter on-chain records, but it has no restraining effect on assets already transferred into the hacker's hands. Moreover, due to the transaction rollback, some legitimate positions held by ordinary users were also affected, resulting in losses.

This incident exposed two levels of problems: first, the insufficient security measures against smart contract vulnerabilities; second, the need to improve transparency and consensus mechanisms in ecosystem governance. Based on the subsequent recovery of the Flow ecosystem, market reactions to this type of handling have generally been pessimistic.

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Deconstructionist

· 5h ago

This is what I said, a rollback can't solve the root problem, and it ends up harming innocent users... --- Flow's move is really incredible; they rolled back without asking, how can anyone stand this? --- $3.9 million was not recovered, but retail investors' positions were wiped out, how ironic. --- The core issue is trust has collapsed; with non-transparent decision-making, who dares to continue playing? --- The smart contract漏洞 should have been防 before, now it's too late to regret. --- Why do users always have to pay for the project team's mistakes... --- Isn't this just centralized rollback? What about decentralization? --- Flow's move directly destroyed the ecosystem's credibility; can the market react well?

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SmartContractWorker

· 5h ago

Rolling back this move... really harms others without benefiting oneself, ordinary users got caught in the crossfire --- 3.9 million just gone, what about Flow's security audit? --- Honestly, rolling back without notifying ecosystem partners is truly outrageous --- Another classic case of "for safety" ending up hurting users --- The money in the hacker's hands can't be rolled back, but my position is gone? I really can't understand this logic --- This is the cost of centralized decision-making... --- Flow's official team probably didn't even think it through, and just forcibly rolled back

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RugPullAlertBot

· 5h ago

Rollback is really outrageous, hurting oneself by 800, the hacker funds had already fled, and instead, retail investors got caught up.

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DefiVeteran

· 5h ago

Rollback plan is really outrageous, hackers' assets still run away, and the unlucky ones are us ordinary users... Is this what you call decentralization? --- It's another case of acting first and reporting later, the official approach is truly worn out. When can we have a proper communication... --- 3.9 million just disappeared like that, rolling back for so long was all in vain, the Flow team’s move is really clever --- Contract vulnerabilities weren’t even fixed, and they’re still messing around with rollbacks, which is really putting the cart before the horse --- I just want to know where that 3.9 million ended up... Can it really be recovered after the rollback? --- The transparency of ecological governance is negative, everyone. If this continues, who will dare to play in the ecosystem? --- Another big project with "We make decisions for you," speechless

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ApeWithNoChain

· 5h ago

Rolling back this move is really brilliant; the hacker's funds have already escaped, and it ended up trapping their own people. --- Flow's official operation this time is truly outrageous; they didn't fix the contract vulnerability and instead changed the ledger? --- 3.9 million wasn't recovered, but innocent users were caught in the process. This ecosystem governance is really... --- Just want to ask, can on-chain rollback records recover the hacker's money? Isn't this just self-deception? --- If the contract security isn't well done, that's one thing; but handling it so hastily? No wonder the community is exploding. --- They didn't communicate beforehand and only cleaned up afterward. Flow really hurt its popularity this time. --- Rolling back without notifying ecosystem partners—what are they playing at? Their power is too great. --- Ordinary users get caught in the crossfire, developers don't trust, and Flow's game plan is... emmm --- If the contract vulnerability can't be prevented, just change the ledger directly? Isn't that centralized? Why even play Web3?

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