Curio, a crypto project that creates tokens based on “real-world assets” (RWAs) like cars, watches, wine, and other goods, has suffered an attack that saw around $16 million drained from the project’s funds.A bug in the project’s Ethereum smart contract enabled an attacker to mint 1 billion of the project’s CGT governance token. Although the tokens were notionally priced at around $40 million, the loss to the project was estimated at closer to $16 million.Curio DAO announced that they intended to compensate users affected by the theft over a year-long period.

Total loss estimated at $16,000,000.