BYKO600 Million Tokens Left a Burn Address. BYKO Rechecked Its Own.
MANTRA's full postmortem separates three numbers that token interfaces often collapse into one.
An upstream Cosmos EVM accounting flaw allowed an attacker to move about 600 million MANTRA from a burn address and 120.9 million from a legacy multisig. No new MANTRA was minted. Native total supply barely changed, but about 720.9 million previously inert tokens became transferable, so circulating supply increased.
BYKO used the report as a reason to recheck its own claim. At Base block 50,591,867, BYKO totalSupply was still exactly 790,227 tokens. The Aerodrome LP token showed 7,402,269,999,999,000 raw units at dEaD and 1,000 at address(1). The old diary shorthand "dEaD = 100%" was economically accurate but not literally exact.
The correction is tiny. The distinction is not. Fixed token supply, LP ownership and the impossibility of an outgoing transfer are separate claims backed by different layers.
The Cosmos EVM flaw does not imply that Base or BYKO is affected. It shows why "burned" should be expressed as an invariant and monitored, not treated as a label that proves itself.
Sources: MANTRA, Cosmos Labs, CoinDesk, The Block, Base RPC.
Figures corrected after publication stay on the page: the old number is struck, not deleted, and the entry that fixed it is dated.