Newton Foundation: Binance attacker mistakenly transferred about $3.5 million worth of tokens to the NEWT contract, leaving them permanently locked

深潮 TechFlow reported on October 30 that, according to a post by Newton Foundation (@NewtonFndn), the attacker behind the recent Binance hack allegedly made an operational error by directly transferring approximately 8 million NEWT and 17 other tokens—ANIME, ANKR, ARPA, BARD, CELR, DENT, DOLO, FTT, GLM, HIGH, HOT, KNC, LQTY, RARE, RESOLV, SIGN, and WOO—to the NEWT token contract address (0xd0ec028a3d21533fdd200838f39c85b03679285d). At current prices, the total value is approximately $3.5 million.

The Foundation said the NEWT token contract itself was not compromised. The contract uses an immutable design, has no owner or admin, all admin privileges were renounced on-chain in 2025, and upgrade functionality has been permanently disabled. Therefore, no one, including the Foundation, can retrieve these tokens.

Source: 深潮 TechFlow