The Sandbox’s Base Chain SAND Contract Suspected of Abnormal Minting, Over 500M Tokens Issued

The anomaly matters less for the headline figure than for what it implies about cross-chain contract controls: a mint function on a secondary deployment is a supply lever, and if it can be triggered outside the intended process, the credible-supply assumption that underpins SAND's economics weakens regardless of any eventual burn or freeze. It affects holders and venues pricing SAND on Base specifically, where liquidity is thinner and arbitrage against other chains is the first line of defence. The open questions are whether the minting was authorized, whether the supply can be neutralized, and how Base-side liquidity responds.