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SolvBTC is the flagship wrapped Bitcoin product of Solv Protocol, designed to represent Bitcoin in DeFi systems across multiple chains. In March 2026, the BRO vault component of the protocol suffered a $2.7 million exploit due to a double-mint logic flaw in the BitcoinReserveOffering smart contract. Separately, in January 2025, the protocol faced credible public allegations of TVL manipulation prior to its SOLV token launch.
Connected Entities
1 entitiesTimeline(9 events)
December 2020
Solv Protocol founded by Ryan Chow and Will Wang.
3 January 2025
Nubit co-founder Lianchuang Hans publicly alleges Solv Protocol is manipulating TVL figures by recycling BTC deposits across multiple protocols. A Bitcoin whale separately claims her 1,800 BTC was used as reserve backing while remaining under her personal control.
5 January 2025
Solv Protocol co-founder Ryan Chow and marketing director Eva Binari publicly deny TVL manipulation allegations, describe them as a smear campaign, and threaten legal action against accusers.
7 January 2025
Binance Megadrop for SOLV token begins, offering up to 4.7 million SOLV to participants.
17 January 2025
SOLV governance token officially launches.
September 2025
Solv Protocol and Chainlink announce integration of Proof of Reserve into SolvBTC, enabling real-time on-chain verification of reserve backing on Ethereum.
3 March 2026
BRO vault exploit occurs: attacker exploits double-mint logic flaw in BitcoinReserveOffering contract 22 times, draining 38.0474 SolvBTC (~$2.7M). Fewer than 10 users directly affected.
6 March 2026
Solv Protocol publicly confirms the exploit, pledges full reimbursement to affected users, and offers the attacker a 10% white-hat bounty ($270,000) for return of funds. Security firms Hypernative, SlowMist, and CertiK engaged.
13 March 2026
Verichains publishes technical post-mortem classifying the vulnerability as a double-mint logic flaw rather than a canonical reentrancy attack.
Decision Log
- hash: 7SpxVj5EPFLPFwnfvf8wJduvgcypb2xbVaJpwuBgdd3L
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 18 of 28 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 5/4/2026, 2:54:13 AM
last updated: 8/30/2026, 3:54:57 AM
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