Mobius Meltdown highlights the risks of complacency in smart contract development within Web3.
A copy-paste error in an unaudited smart contract allowed the minting of 9 quadrillion tokens, leading to a loss of $2 million in under 72 hours.
The incident raises concerns about the lack of accountability, circuit breakers, and fallback logic in financial software developed in the Web3 ecosystem.
Smart contract design in Web3 needs to mature by implementing formal testing, audits, upgrade paths, and kill switches to prevent future incidents.