Breaking Down the Balancer Hack
On November 3, 2025, Balancer suffered an incident in which attackers manipulated internal vault logic to drain liquidity across multiple blockchains. The breach underscores the importance of prioritizing security even for mature protocols with multiple audits, and it raises urgent questions about composability, operational controls, and the evolving threat-landscape in Web3. Here is Certora’s analysis of the incident, as well as a detailed timeline of events.