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Ethereum’s Sepolia attacker exploited a little-known ERC-20 feature allowing zero-token transfers. By sending a 0-token transaction to Sepolia’s deposit contract, they disrupted the network, causing empty block mining.

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The ERC-20 standard allows token transfers… without tokens. An unknown user sent a 0 token transaction to the Sepolia deposit contract, triggering a cascade of erroneous events
The exploiter sent a zero-token transfer to the deposit address and managed to trigger the same error again, leading to continued empty block mining.

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