Polkadot’s Wild Ride: Hackers Mint a Billion Tokens, Because Why Not?

Apparently, some clever (or should I say, cheeky) hacker decided that minting a cool billion DOT tokens on the Ethereum mainnet was the perfect way to spend their Tuesday. And sell them off? Oh, they did. Faster than a politician backpedaling on a campaign promise. The price dropped from a cozy $1.24 to a panicked $1.15 before clawing its way back to around $1.20. Because, you know, drama.