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Curve-Vyper exploit: The whole story so far
4.8.2023
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
Navigating the Storm: Defi’s Precarious Position Amid a String of Exploits and Market Declines
4.8.2023
In the wake of July’s unprecedented wave of decentralized finance (defi) breaches, including Curve Finance’s staggering $62 million exploit, the defi economy has plummeted into a gloomy state. Hovering perilously close to dipping beneath the $40 billion threshold, the total value...
Looter Behind $61M Curve Hack Starts Returning Assets, Raising Hope for Recovery
4.8.2023
The exploited protocols offered a 10% bounty Thursday for returning the rest of the assets until the end f this week
'Suspicious' Multichain Wallet Dumps $1.8M WOO Network Tokens; Price Drops 8%
4.8.2023
An Ethereum wallet funded by a beneficiary of the Multichain exploit has sold $1.8 million worth of WOO Network (WOO) tokens on Uniswap, causing the price to slump by 8%
Curve Offers Hackers 10% Bounty in Exchange for Return of Crypto
3.8.2023
"We will pursue you from all angles with the full extent of the law," said Curve, Metronome and Alchemix
Curve emergency DAO terminates rewards for hack-related pools
2.8.2023
The Curve emergency DAO removed CRV rewards for alETH, msETH, pETH, crvCRVETH, Arbitrum Tricrypto, and multiBTC pools
Base’s largest DEX LeetSwap halts trading amid exploit concerns
1.8.2023
Some analysts have provided possible ways the exchange was exploited and pinned potential initial losses at over $600,000
Curve Debacle Triggers Transaction Frenzy, Sending Ethereum ‘MEV’ Rewards to Record High
31.7.2023
On July 30, over 6,000 ETH ($11M worth) in so-called Maximal Extractable Value rewards were paid out to Ethereum validators, the most ever for a single day
White Hat Hacker Recovers $5.4 Million For DeFi Platform Curve Finance Amid Recent Exploit
31.7.2023
An ethical hacker has recovered 2,879 ETH worth around $5.4 million for the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance amid its recent hack losing over $47 million.
On July 30, the same day of the hack, it was reported that an ethical hacker seized some assets by front-running...
First Mover Americas: Curve Finance Exploit Puts More Than $100M of Crypto at Risk
31.7.2023
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 31, 2023. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets
Curve DAO is Going to Zero After Blockchain Exploit and AI Crypto Analytics Platform yPredict Just Raised $3.2 Million – How Does it Work?
31.7.2023
Markets have been fuelled with anxiety this morning, after a tumultuous cyber exploit on the weekend which saw multiple Curve liquidity pools raided for $47m.
Cyber security experts have now traced the source of the issue back to vulnerabilities in the Vyper (programming language) smart contracts...
Ethical hacker retrieves $5.4M for Curve Finance amid exploit.
31.7.2023
Twitter accounts impersonating Curve Finance have also started to promote a fake refund scheme further targeting victims of the hack
Curve Finance's Token Surges 500% on Bithumb After Over $100M Exploit
31.7.2023
The CRV/KRW pair listed on South Korea's Bithumb exchange has decoupled from the CRV/USD pairs listed on Western exchanges that exhibit price weakness
Upbit Halts Trading of Curve Finance's Token After $100M Exploit
31.7.2023
Other exchanges say they are monitoring the situation closely but have not taken any action
Crypto Futures Show Bias for Uniswap's UNI Token After Curve Finance Exploit
31.7.2023
UNI perpetual futures trade at 20% premium as traders expect Uniswap to gain even more market share after the CRV exploit, one research head said
Ethereum logs $1M MEV block reward amid Curve Finance exploit
31.7.2023
The highest recently generated block reward was 584 ETH, created by a MEV bot front-running transactions during the DeFi chaos
BNB Smart Chain hit with copycat Vyper attack, $73K exploited
31.7.2023
While Ethereum-based protocols have been hit with the majority of the exploit activity, BNB Smart Chain has also seen similar "copycat" exploits, according to BlockSec
Bitcoin Dips Below $29.2K After Curve Exploit but Continues Its Range-Bound Ways; ETH, SOL, MATIC Sink
31.7.2023
BTC hovered comfortably over $29,300 for much of the weekend but dropped in the hours after Curve Finance tweeted that it had suffered an exploit
Curve Finance Exploit Puts $100M+ Worth of Crypto at Risk; CRV Token Tumbles
30.7.2023
Curve, a stablecoin exchange at the heart of decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum, has been the victim of an exploit according to a tweet from the project. Upwards of $100 million worth of cryptocurrency are at risk due to a “re-entrancy” bug in Vyper, a programming language used to power parts...
DeFi Platform EraLend on zkSync Loses $3.4 Million in Blockchain Exploit
26.7.2023
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol EraLend has lost $3.4 million worth of crypto in a so-called re-entrancy attack.
The attack, which happened on Tuesday, exploited a vulnerability that allowed the hacker to make multiple calls to a function within one single transaction, enabling the person...