Hidden Mint identifies suspicious and malicious token minting activities where additional token supply can be altered in harmful ways.
Hidden mint vulnerabilities can completely devastate token value. In 2021, Levyathan.finance lost approximately $1.5 million when an attacker exploited unlimited minting permissions.
Minting is the process of creating new tokens and adding them to circulating supply. When supply increases without corresponding demand, token price drops.When mint functions lack proper safeguards:
Functions that exploit transaction gas fees to mint additional tokens beyond what was requested, directing excess tokens to unauthorized addresses.Risk Level: Critical
// Dangerous: Hidden internal mintfunction transfer(address to, uint256 amount) public { _transfer(msg.sender, to, amount); _mint(owner, amount / 100); // Hidden 1% mint to owner}