This hack represents the first instance of a multi-token re-entrancy attack successfully exploiting smart contract vulnerabilities across six different cryptocurrencies simultaneously. The use of mixed funds through Tornado Cash to mask the attack's origin, combined with the immediate ability to bridge assets across networks, demonstrates how digital financial systems can be manipulated at unprecedented scale and speed.
$42M DeFi Hack: Smart Contract Exploit Reveals Digital Control
📰 What Happened
On July 9, 2025, hackers exploited the GMX decentralized exchange through a malicious smart contract, stealing approximately $42M in multiple cryptocurrencies. The attack targeted markets on the Arbitrum network, draining WBTC, USDC, USDT, LINK, UNI, and FRAX tokens through a re-entrancy attack that minted unauthorized GLP tokens. The hackers used mixed funds from Tornado Cash to execute the exploit. GMX responded by offering a 10% white hat bounty to recover the funds.
📖 Prophetic Significance
The GMX exploit reveals three critical technological developments enabling end-times financial control: 1) Smart contracts that can automatically execute complex financial operations across multiple tokens worth $42M in seconds, 2) The ability to instantly move large sums across different blockchain networks, evading traditional financial borders, and 3) The vulnerability of decentralized systems to centralized manipulation. These capabilities align with Revelation's description of controlled buying and selling, showing how digital assets could be instantly frozen, seized, or manipulated by a central authority. The hack demonstrates the technical infrastructure for global financial control is already operational.