Odaily Report: The Balancer community has proposed a "Fork and Reincarnate" proposal, aiming to continue its technology and ecosystem through an official fork in the event that the protocol may be shut down, and to position the new protocol as a tokenized stock trading platform. The proposal suggests that MAXYZ lead the establishment of a new official fork entity, migrating part of the liquidity, team members, partners, users, and intellectual property, while delaying the pause timeline for existing pools and the Vault to Q2 2027.Regarding funding, the proposal plans to use approximately 6 million uncirculated BAL remaining from Balancer as seed funding for the new project, worth about $690,000 at current prices; if the new protocol conducts a token issuance or other liquidity exit event in the future, the Balancer treasury will receive 10% of the new protocol token's fully diluted valuation in advance. The proposal also plans to grant the new fork a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to Balancer-related intellectual property.

Odaily Report: Balancer Labs co-founder Marcus Hardt posted on X that he has proposed a governance proposal to gradually shut down Balancer. Balancer had previously completed a restructuring, including halting token emissions, transferring all protocol fees to the DAO, cutting the operational budget by one-third, and reducing the team from approximately 25 people to 12.5 full-time equivalents.Marcus stated that the restructuring was completed on the cost side as planned, but revenue performance fell short of expectations. Currently, most of Balancer's protocol revenue still comes from v2, and v3 revenue has not grown enough to replace v2. Previous security incidents have also continued to affect partners' willingness to adopt v3. Marcus said he can no longer see a funded path that could change the situation, and continuing to burn through treasury funds is not reasonable. Therefore, he has proposed gradually shutting down Balancer and will not lead efforts to develop a plan for continued operations. The Balancer code will remain open source, and other teams can fork it and continue development. The relevant proposal has been submitted to the governance forum, and the final decision still rests with token holders.

Odaily News According to on-chain detective Specter's monitoring, Balancer appears to have suffered a V1 attack. An attacker is continuously transferring funds and has profited $250,000 so far. The relevant address is 0x112...E0aE.

According to Odaily, on September 4, Balancer stated that its team had sent an on-chain message to the wallet associated with the August 31 Balancer V1 vulnerability attack, offering a bounty in exchange for the return of the stolen funds, and promising not to pursue legal action for the return itself if conditions are met. If the other party fails to respond before 5:00 AM on September 9, Balancer will take technical, on-chain, and legal measures to track down the attacker. The incident resulted in losses of approximately $234,000.

Odaily News: Balancer has announced that a vulnerability has been discovered in its legacy Balancer v1 contracts, which could potentially lead to LP funds being drained. The affected liquidity pools have been deprecated and cannot be paused, so users are advised to withdraw their liquidity as soon as possible. Other Balancer products are not impacted.

Odaily reported that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a Balancer attacker has exchanged 21,000 ETH for 617.43 BTC over the past three days, worth $48.72 million. The attacker currently still holds 1,000 ETH, worth $2.32 million, and may conduct further sell-offs.

Odaily reported that, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address linked to the Balancer attacker has transferred 5,609 ETH, worth $13 million, to THORChain over the past 9 hours. In November 2025, Balancer was hacked for over $116 million, a incident with the same suspected culprit as the Aave attack, both pointing to the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. Both entities have recently been frequently using Tornado Cash for money laundering.

According to on-chain analyst EmberCN's monitoring, the Balancer hacker started swapping ETH for BTC via THORChain yesterday. So far, 14,300 ETH have been converted into 419.3 BTC ($32.51 million). Currently, the hacker still holds 7,700 ETH on the Ethereum chain and 419.3 BTC on the Bitcoin chain, with a total value of $50.4 million. The assets stolen in November last year were worth $98 million at the time, but have since depreciated significantly due to ETH being priced at around $3,600 back then.

Odaily reported According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Balancer attacker (0xa6d6...BDaA) exchanged 13,191 ETH for 386.52 BTC, worth $30.54 million, over the past 15 hours. The attacker currently still holds 8,000 ETH, valued at $18.52 million.

According to Odaily, on-chain analyst EmberCN reported that the KelpDAO hacker swapped all 75,700 ETH for BTC via THORChain yesterday. The hacker who stole approximately $98 million in assets from Balancer in November last year is also swapping ETH for BTC through THORChain today. Today, the Balancer hacker has swapped 7,000 ETH for 204.7 BTC, worth approximately $15.88 million, and the swapping activity is still ongoing. Currently, the hacker holds 15,000 ETH on the Ethereum chain, worth approximately $34.65 million, and 204.7 BTC on the Bitcoin chain, worth approximately $15.88 million.