Venus Turned One BNB Chain Bug Into a Cross-Chain Borrow Freeze
Most exploit coverage stops at the loss number.
That is usually where the real market-structure story begins.
In Venus's case, the headline attack happened on March 15, 2026, when the protocol's THE market on BNB Chain was manipulated through a donation-style exchange-rate attack. But as of April 7, 2026, the more revealing story is what happened after that: Venus had to pause borrowing across all non-BNB-chain deployments, patch core vToken logic, and use treasury plus risk-fund assets to clean up the balance sheet.
That is not just an exploit post-mortem. That is a statement about how fragile multichain money markets still are when they inherit old Compound assumptions and then market themselves as broad, modular liquidity infrastructure.
The market should pay more attention to that second part.