Reference
Claims and sources
This page lists statements made in or about this incident that we could check against a primary source, with the result. It lists only items that can be checked that way. Claims we could not check against a primary source are not repeated here, because repeating them can spread an error. “Verified” means that we reproduced it from the source on the date shown; it does not mean it is the whole story.
| Statement | Status | Primary source |
|---|---|---|
| Six transactions spent inscriptions listed on the marketplace on Oct 26 2026. | Verified on-chain | transactions.csv; explorer links in the timeline |
| 264 inputs were spent and every one carries a 0x82 signature. | Verified on-chain | inputs.csv; the transactions |
| The six transactions have a single recipient address, which received 0.338582 DOGE in total. | Verified on-chain | The transactions |
| 201 inscriptions reached the recipient address and 63 went to miners. | Our computation from ordinals flow rules; can be repeated | Technical explainer |
| The marketplace client code uses 0x82 when signing listings. | Verified in archived and live code | Evidence manifest |
| A code comment in the same file describes SIGHASH_SINGLE|ANYONECANPAY. | Verified in extracted source | Manifest item src-listing-signer-ts |
| The 0x82 constant appears in archived code from 2025-10-26. | Verified (earliest capture we found) | Manifest item wb-js-20251026161429-5050e6bc |
| The marketplace shows “Trading temporarily paused” as of the Oct 27 UTC (Oct 26 Pacific time) and Oct 28 2026 snapshots. | Verified in live code and captures | Manifest items live-oct27-layout, live-oct28-layout |
| The marketplace Terms contain an “as is” clause and a limitation of liability mentioning “loss of funds”. | Verified in the Terms page | Manifest items live-oct27-legal.html, wb-legal-20261004225532 |
| Sales on Oct 21 2026 used 0x82 on the seller input. | Verified on-chain | sales_reference.csv |
| A floor price of about USD 1,500 was shown on doggy.market on Oct 28 2026. | Verified (19,900 DOGE, about USD 1,586 shown) | doggy.market; scale and value |
| The incident involved 265 items. | Not supported by our count (264) | inputs.csv |
| A floor price of about USD 4,500 applied on Oct 26 2026. | Not supported; the marketplace’s own stats floor was about USD 3,600 at the Oct 26 DOGE price | scale and value |
| This is the largest NFT hack ever. | Not supported by our estimates | scale and value |
| The affected items came from 194 wallets. | Matches our count of distinct seller addresses | Our analysis; community |
| Who controls the recipient address, and anyone’s intent. | Not established by public evidence | What we cannot know |