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Tech

ZkSync-Based DEX Merlin Drained of $1.8M During Public Token Sale Despite ‘Audit’

The project garnered hype among Crypto Twitter users for its attractive yield offered on deposits.

Computer Hacking Hackers (Shutterstock)

Finance

LI.FI and InsurAce Pitch Protection for Moving Crypto Between Blockchains

LI.FI partnered with risk cover protocol InsurAce to provide protection for users who are bridging their cryptoassets from one blockchain to another.

Busan, South Korea (Getty Images)

Finance

Safemoon Hacker Strikes Deal With Developers to Return $7.1M

The exploiter will retain 20% of the stolen funds as a bug bounty.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Kyber Network Advises Liquidity Providers to Withdraw Funds Amid Vulnerability, Token Drops 2%

Kyber's Elastic product's total value locked has plunged to $61 million from $108 million a day earlier.

Hacker (Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange Bitrue Drained of $23M in Hack of Ether, Shiba Inu, Other Tokens

Bitrue said the affected wallet contained “less than 5%” of overall reserves.

Computer Hacking Hackers (Shutterstock)

Finance

Exploit Involving Aave and Yearn Helped Users Make Money

The exploiter paid back Aave users’ USDT debts on its v1 markets, making the total USDT borrowed stand at zero.

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Finance

DeFi Protocol Yearn Finance Impacted in Nearly $11M Exploit That Occurred Via Aave Version 1

The exploiter was able to steal millions of U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins, data shows.

Cypher Protocol suffers exploit (Clint Patterson/Unsplash)

Tech

Huobi and Gala Games to Give $50M to Victims of pGala Scheme

The firms will compensate the scheme’s victims while fighting for millions in damages from the cross-chain bridge that covered up the token-printing scheme.

Money (Alexander Grey/ Unsplash)

Tech

Safemoon LP Exploited for $8.9M; SFM Tokens Remain ‘Safe,' CEO Says

A publicly available token burn function in the contract allowed attackers to manipulate the protocol, some said.

(Zoltan Tasi/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Algorand Wallet MyAlgo Advises Users to Withdraw Funds After $9.6M Exploit

John Woods, chief technology officer of the Algorand Foundation, said 25 wallets were affected.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

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