Resolv’s USR stablecoin depegged following an obvious sensible contract exploit on Sunday that allowed an attacker to mint 80 million USR tokens and dump them throughout decentralized exchanges, as famous by onchain analysts Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) and PeckShield.
.@ResolvLabs It appears a number of giant quantities of $USR have been minted. Keep alert!
$50m: https://t.co/gDrTBJDkax
$30m: https://t.co/jLyvQkMMSV pic.twitter.com/0F7JZrKR4V— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) March 22, 2026
USR was quickly destabilized, dropping to as little as $0.2 earlier than recovering to round $0.8, in response to CoinGecko.
In a press release, Resolv Labs, the core developer of the Resolv Protocol, mentioned that they had quickly halted operations following the exploit. The crew is investigating and taking steps to comprise the scenario.
Resolv has skilled an exploit that allowed the attackers to mint 50mn of unbacked USR.
The crew has at the moment paused all of the protocol capabilities to forestall additional malicious actions and is actively engaged on restoration.
— Resolv Labs (@ResolvLabs) March 22, 2026
USR is a 1:1 dollar-pegged stablecoin constructed by Resolv to function solely on-chain. Somewhat than holding fiat reserves, it maintains its worth utilizing over-collateralized crypto belongings resembling ETH, staked Ethereum, and Bitcoin.
RESOLV, the protocol’s native token used for governance and worth seize, dropped 6% to $0.054 on the information.
