Binance jumped in with a $5 million Curve token investment to help with efforts to minimize the risk of contagion. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The DeFi ecosystem is yet to recover…
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Aave tokenholders are voting on three proposals that could reshape the protocol’s exposure to the Curve DAO token. The Aave community is seeking to reduce its protocol exposure to the Curve DAO token, with two proposals open for voting on Aug. 10. The move comes in an attempt to limit the risk posed to the…
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The leveraged yield aggregator confirmed on Aug. 7 that it was hacked and said it’s willing to discuss a bounty with the exploiters. Decentralized finance (DeFi) app Steadefi was exploited for at least $334,000 on Aug. 7 in an ongoing attack. The app’s development team has said in a social media post that the attack…
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Curve Finance is extending a $1.85 million bug bounty offer to anyone who can identify the exploiter of its stable pools. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30. Curve…
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The attacker started returning stolen funds after accepting nearly $7 million in bug bounty. Funds had been returned to Alchemix and JPEGd. Lending platform Alchemix has announced the return of all stolen funds by the Curve finance hacker. The attack took place on July 30 and resulted in over $61 million in cryptocurrencies drained, including…
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Most DeFi tokens traded in the red on weekly charts due to the chaos caused by the Curve Finance exploit. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The $47 million Curve Finance exploit on…
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Curve Finance pools were targeted by hackers in a reentrancy attack on July 30, sending shockwaves across the DeFi ecosystem. Cointelegraph compiled the week’s events. The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced a challenging week after a seismic security incident led to over $61 million being stolen from Curve Finance’s pools, leaving several protocols facing…
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The attacker behind the July 30 Curve Finance attack has returned $8.9 million of drained funds, claiming they don’t want to “ruin” the protocols they exploited. The attacker behind the $61 million July 30 Curve Finance attack has returned 4,820.55 Alchemix ETH (alETH), worth approximately $8,889,118, to the Alchemix Finance team and 1 ETH, approximately…
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The exploit on July 30 resulted in the theft of roughly $70 million in cryptocurrencies, bringing the bounty close to $7 million. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Curve, Metronome and Alchemix have jointly announced an initiative to recover stolen funds from the recent exploits of Curve’s pools. According to on-chain data, the protocols are offering a…
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The scheme consists of mirroring addresses and sending dust transactions to users to trick them into sending funds to the scammer’s wallet. Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao warned his followers on X about a tricky and increasingly popular scam targeting the crypto community, in which fake wallet addresses are used to defraud users during transactions.…
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