How the $25M Resolv USR Minting Heist Happened

USR, an overcollateralized stablecoin natively backed by ETH and maintained by the Resolv protocol, lost its peg on March 22 after an attacker minted millions of unbacked tokens and reportedly extracted at least $25 million. Here’s how the incident went down, according to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Attacker Exploits Minting Key to Create $80M in Unbacked USR In a thread posted on X earlier today, Ch…