Token of Power (TOP)
Last changed 2026-10-10 · Score recalculated — Rescored under Scoring v2, the published formula (avoid.net/scoring): 4 → 42. Problems weighed by who is responsible: incidents the subject suffered −20, concerns that are not fraud −10, problems around the subject, caused by others −3; legitimacy credit long-running +10; the penalty for incidents it suffered is capped at 20; a recent unresolved incident −9.8. Version history →
Why this score
| Every page starts at | 65 |
| Concerns that are not fraud | -10 |
| Incidents it suffered (e.g. hacks) | -20 |
| Problems around it, caused by others | -3 |
| Long-running | +10 |
| Recent unresolved incident | -9.8 |
| Sum | 32 |
- The penalty for incidents it suffered is capped at 20 points.
Score: 42/100 (kept between 0 and 100)
How scoring works →Summary
Token of Power (TOP) is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 governance token created in March 2021 as a financial art experiment built around fractionalized ownership of a MetaMask-themed NFT, with liquidity and governance managed through a Balancer V1 pool and an Aragon DAO. On June 9, 2026, the project suffered a catastrophic governance-takeover exploit in which an attacker acquired a majority of the token's 16,384-token supply, used the Aragon DAO's absence of timelock protections to create, vote on, and execute a malicious proposal in a single transaction, minted 10 billion new TOP tokens, and drained 944.2 WETH (approximately $1.58 million) from the Balancer V1 liquidity pool. Stolen funds were laundered through Tornado Cash and no official project response had been issued as of June 10, 2026.
Connected Entities
4 entities · 60 linked investigations- Token of Power (TOP)→mentioned with→Lido Finance(80%)
- Token of Power (TOP)→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Token of Power (TOP)→mentioned with→Balancer(80%)
- Lido Finance→mentioned with→Ethereum(80%)
- Balancer→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
Timeline(5 events)
20 March 2021
Token of Power (TOP) launched by an anonymous creator. The Mask of Power DAO was established with a Balancer V1 TOP/WETH pool and an Aragon DAO governance structure. Total supply set to 16,384 TOP tokens.
The Story of the Mask Of Power - write.as/maskofpower9 June 2026
Attacker withdraws approximately 662 ETH from Tornado Cash to fund the attack, then acquires 8,192.000001 TOP tokens from the Balancer V1 pool, securing just over 50% of the total supply and majority governance control.
Governance takeover lets attacker mint 10B TOP tokens in $1.5m exploit - AMBCrypto9 June 2026
Attacker executes a single-transaction Aragon DAO governance proposal with no timelock, triggering the TokenManager to mint 10 billion new TOP tokens to the attacker's exploit contract. Attacker swaps minted tokens into the Balancer V1 pool, draining 944.2 WETH (~$1.58 million). Stolen funds routed through Tornado Cash.
Token of Power exploit drains $1.58M from Balancer pool - crypto.news9 June 2026
Security firms Cyvers Alerts, PeckShield, Blockaid, and BlockSec Phalcon publish on-chain alerts and analyses identifying the attacker wallet, exploit mechanism, and Tornado Cash funding trail.
Attacker cleans out $1.6M from Token of Power (TOP) in Aragon DAO exploit - Cryptopolitan10 June 2026
Multiple crypto news outlets publish full incident reports. No official statement issued by the Token of Power project or Aragon. Funds remain unrecovered. Post-exploit total supply stands at approximately 10 billion TOP with a single wallet holding virtually all tokens.
One Vote, $1.58M Gone: TOP Token Hit by Alleged Governance Attack - CryptoTimesDecision Log
- slot 455362955 · hash 36WVvtHTv2PA9MkgJXkoEuEvRhKduiyuuDW2awFpnM1S
- slot 426514892 · hash 3xaCa8ZqS9rcc8k2VVZEutrnKYySBytuTaVDjhUgQdz2
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (2 decisions). 9 of 9 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/14/2026, 11:16:09 PM
last updated: 10/10/2026, 6:43:02 PM
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