Chain shutdown strips BounceBit token utility after authorization flaw exposes 286M tokens

BounceBit will retire its standalone Layer 1 and reissue BB on BNB Chain after the company said an authorization flaw moved about 286.5 million BB from nine accounts.For holders, the immediate remedy is a 1:1 reconstruction of balances. The larger consequence is unresolved BounceBit token utility: its previous gas, staking, rewards and governance roles belonged to a network that will not return.BounceBit attributed the incident to protocol-level authorization logic inherited from the Evmos stack. It said the flaw let a caller identify another account as the funding source without the required approval, while private keys, signatures and wallets remained uncompromised. The response ends the network instead of patching and restarting it, making BB’s remaining economic role the central question.A replacement ledger for BounceBit token utility, not a rollbackBounceBit is using block 20,697,260, timestamped 21:02:35 UTC on Aug. 19, as the cutoff for the BEP-20 reissue. Transactions made after that block will not carry over to the replacement ledger.The retired chain will stay retired. BounceBit is recognizing an earlier account state on a different network, leaving both unauthorized mov...