Robinhood founder Vlad Tenev's mnemonic seed phrase was partially exposed during a public livestream. A hacker used the compromised address to buy $1 meme coin, driving its market cap from ~$50M to $1400M, then dumped, and later repeated the scheme on BNB Chain.
Vlad Tenev inadvertently revealed 9 out of 12 seed words on video, enabling attackers to reconstruct the full phrase and take control of the address.
The initial token pump resulted in ~$2000M trading volume; after the address was frozen, the hacker moved to BNB Chain and launched new tokens for similar pump-and-dump activities.
2025.6.30，Robinhood老板在公开活动中，为了演示OpenAI stock token 转移，现场输入助记词（但是没有全部露出） 随后被扒出地址──0x42607B2E4fde22e83822d4a86ddAc58d847DC289 也就是近几天被传的最火的vlad钱包 时间戳为37分54秒 https://t.co/zuCwQCqdu6 https://t.co/31WFQC8UTt
After the original address was frozen, the hacker deployed new tokens on BNB Chain using same addresses, pumped and dumped again.