MONA Reserve Manipulation Attack: $60.95K Reported Loss
On April 14, 2026, attackers exploited the BurnAddress mechanism in the MONA token on BSC via a Deferred LP Burn / reserve manipulation attack.
- Reported loss
- $ 60,950
- Attack category
- Reserve Manipulation Attack
Incident Overview
The attacker first farmed 10,000 MONA through 25 fresh accounts, sold 9,900 MONA to create a deferred burn credit, bought out most of the pool's MONA inventory, then triggered BurnAddress.burn() with a zero-value transferFrom to burn MONA directly from the LP and call sync(). This left the MONA/USDT pair with near-zero MONA but almost full USDT reserves. Finally, selling the remaining ~100 MONA drained a large amount of USDT. Flash loans from Moolah and borrowing from Venus were used for funding and fully repaid in the same transaction. The root cause was non-atomic handling in _handleSell() and burnsellMona(): USDT payout happened immediately while MONA burn was deferred and could be triggered later, breaking the AMM invariant.
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