DeFi

A potential agreement with FTX.US may see ex-clients of failed crypto broker Voyage Digital regain up to 72% of their frozen cryptocurrency. In the past 24 hours, news of the bankruptcy payout plan emerged via court documents.  FTX Deal Still Under Question According to the court files, Voyager’s former customers may be able to recover more than 70% of the original value of their accounts. FTX.US’s tentative acquisition of the lender’s assets could see the US-regulated exchange fully pay out…

The attacker responsible for the Oct 11 Mango Market exploit has gone public with his identity. Although the exploit drained the DeFi platform of about $100M, the culprit claims it was a legal operation.  Eisenberg Claims His Actions Were Above Board A Twitter user called Avraham Eisenberg has outed himself as the Mango Market hacker. Early on Saturday, New York resident Eisenberg, who is a digital art dealer, shared a thread admitting his involvement in the massive exploit. His tweet…

While the total value locked in decentralized finance has fallen massively this year, the hacks and thefts across the space are not slowing down.  According to Chainalysis, this October has already become the “biggest month in the biggest year” for crypto hacks. Overwhelming Hacks As the blockchain intelligence firm tweeted on Wednesday, four significant DeFi hacks occurred on Tuesday alone. Across the month, 11 hacks have occurred in total, resulting in $718 million dollars being stolen. Yet the month is…

Mango Markets – a Solana-based trading platform – suffered a $117 million DeFi hack on Friday due to a price manipulation exploit. The blockchain security firm, Certik, has broken down how the hack was executed.  According to a brief provided by the company, the attacker manipulated the price of MNGO – the platform’s native token and collateral asset. First, the attacker funded one of his accounts with about 5 million USDC. Those funds helped him sell 488,302,109  MNGO worth of…

Earlier today, yield farming platform TempleDAO suffered losses scaling $2 million after a hacker breached the protocol. This attack is the latest in a series of exploits across the DeFi industry over the past few weeks.  Almost 2000 ETH Stolen Twitter user spreekaway first caught sight of the attack via on-chain data which they shared in a tweet. Blockchain security company Peckshield later confirmed the news on their Twitter page. According to the firm’s report, the attacker funded the exploit…

Major liquidity provider Wintermute has become the latest cryptocurrency firm to suffer a security breach in recent months.  Attack to Be Treated as a "White Hat" Hack Earlier this morning, CEO of Wintermute Evgeny Gaevoy took to Twitter to share the news. In a series of tweets, Gaevoy explained that only their DeFi protocols had been affected. Their CeFi and OTC activities remain up and running. About 90 assets were compromised, with a little over 160 million USD siphoned off…

Ethereum addresses generated by an abandoned Ethereum vanity tool have been stripped of over $3 million in assets by exploiters. The tool – called “Profanity” – used an insecure method for generating public keys, from which users’ private keys could be extracted.  Unsafe Keys The popular decentralized exchange aggregator 1Inch first noted the vulnerability on Thursday, just hours before it started being exploited.  “Run, you fools,” tweeted 1Inch. “Your money is NOT SAFU if your wallet address was generated with…

According to circulating reports, on Thursday, September 8 DeFi project New Free DAO fell victim to a series of flash loan attacks. The exploits may have seen the company suffer losses scaling $1.25 million causing the value of its native token to tank. Notably, the price of the NFD token has fallen by about 99% following the attack.  PeckShield Sounds the Alarm News of the attack initially emerged via a report from blockchain security firm PeckShield Alert. The company sounded…

Crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital is set to auction off the rest of its assets on Tuesday, September 13. News of the move emerged after the platform filed a notice with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York.  Auction to Take Place On September 13 According to the filing, the auction will hold in Manhattan at the offices of Voyager’s investment bank Moelis and Company. Afterward, on September 29, the court will conduct a hearing to…