{"id":21315,"date":"2024-05-26T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinengineer.io\/?p=21315"},"modified":"2024-05-26T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T13:50:12","slug":"popular-memecoin-attacked-price-drops-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/popular-memecoin-attacked-price-drops-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Memecoin Attacked, Price Drops 99%!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular memecoin Normie has seen its price plummet by over 99% after falling victim to a flash loan attack. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<p>A memecoin named Normie has been subjected to a severe attack that caused its price to drop by over 99% in just a minute.<\/p>\n<p>The token&#8217;s market capitalization, in a shocking turn of events, plunged from a staggering $40 million to around $170,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21316\" src=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Drops.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Drops.webp 1200w, https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Drops-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Drops-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Drops-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Normie&#8217;s supply was significantly inflated by the attacker exploiting a vulnerability in the token contract&#8217;s tax mechanism to execute a flash loan attack. This type of attack involves borrowing a large amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinengineer.net\/blog\/fed-survey-shows-18m-fewer-cryptocurrency-users-in-2023\/\">cryptocurrency<\/a> and using it to manipulate the market before repaying the loan within the same transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Trading at $0.042 before the attack, Normie&#8217;s price has nosedived by 99.54% as of this writing, hovering around $0.0001812.<\/p>\n<p>However, the token was not listed on any major centralized exchanges. It was only trading on Justin Sun&#8217;s crypto exchange HTX and decentralized exchanges. The token experienced a staggering 24-hour trading volume of $41.3 million due to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Normie was operating on Coinbase&#8217;s layer-2 solution Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular memecoin Normie has seen its price plummet by over 99% after falling victim to a flash loan attack. Here are the details. A memecoin named Normie has been subjected to a severe attack that caused its price to drop by over 99% in just a minute. The token&#8217;s market capitalization, in a shocking turn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[965,58,6337,1332,6336,5600],"class_list":["post-21315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","tag-base","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-flash-loan-attack","tag-memecoin","tag-normie","tag-price-drop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Popular Memecoin Attacked, Price Drops 99%! - Coin Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Popular memecoin Normie has seen its price plummet by over 99% after falling victim to a flash loan attack. 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