Build Finance DAO suffers 'hostile governance takeover,' loses $470,000

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ICYMI: Build Finance DAO suffers ‘hostile governance takeover,’ loses $470,000

Build Finance DAO has fallen foul to a ‘hostile governance takeover,’ according to the project.Build Finance DAO suffered a"hostile governance takeover" over the last few days and has lost around $470,000 in funds, according to an announcement today.

“It is with deep regret that we have to inform the community of this total and irrecoverable loss of BUILD DAO treasury assets through the deeds of one malicious actor,” they added.Build Finance was a self-described “decentralized venture builder” with the goal of incentivizing new projects by rewarding them with tokens. The idea was to fund projects with its native BUILD tokens and the projects would, in return, adopt BUILD tokens to grow demand for them.

, its treasury comprised six tokens including DAI, BUILD and METRIC. Its value at the time was $522,000.On February 9, Build Finance moderator 0xSHA2 penned a message in the Discord server that said someone had made a proposal that, if passed, would let them mint tokens unilaterally. The moderator encouraged token holders to vote against the proposal.Yet it seems the perpetrator sent their governance tokens to aand tried again.

 

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