NemTokenV2 Liquidity Pool Accounting Exploit
A settlement-accounting flaw in the NemTokenV2 contract let an attacker drain its PancakeSwap pool on BNB Chain for roughly $822,000 by repeatedly skimming reserves.
Vuln-watch · relayed from a public source; see Source & attribution below
Summary
A settlement-accounting flaw in the NemTokenV2 contract let an attacker drain its PancakeSwap pool on BNB Chain for roughly $822,000 by repeatedly skimming reserves.
Incident
- Victim: NEM (NemTokenV2)
- Date (UTC): 2026-10-22
- Estimated loss: $822k
- Chain(s): BNB Chain
- Attack type: smart-contract exploit
- Funds status: stolen
Recommended actions
- Revoke token approvals granted to NEM (NemTokenV2) contracts until the project confirms they are safe
- Integrators: pause or delist affected assets and monitor for attacker fund movements
- Beware of follow-on phishing: ignore unofficial "refund", "recovery", or "claim" links and DMs; use the project's verified channels only
Source & attribution
Full analysis on Blockchain Breaches, 0xCERT's incident archive: https://www.blockchainbreaches.com/en/breaches/nem-token-2026. Primary sources: https://www.kucoin.com/blog/nemtokenv2-exploit-pancakeswap-822k-loss ; https://cryptobriefing.com/certik-nem-token-exploit-820k-pancakeswap/ ; https://hacked.slowmist.io/.
References
OpenPGP-signed. The signed text of this advisory verifies against the 0xCERT key CCC7 D9EC 9415 723D.
Published 2026-10-22 · last updated 2026-10-26
curl -s https://www.0xcert.com/pgp.asc | gpg --import && curl -s https://www.0xcert.com/advisory/0xCERT-2026-0278/signed.txt | gpg --verify