DeFi Project Akropolis Drained of $2M in DAI

Decentralized finance (defi) protocol Akropolis was on Thursday hacked for $2 million in DAI, in the latest flash loan attack to hit the nascent defi industry. The attacker pilfered the platform’s Ycurve pool in batches of $50,000 in the stablecoin DAI. This particular pool allows investors to trade stablecoins and earn interest. In a statement on Nov. 12, Akropolis revealed that the hack was executed across a body of smart contracts in its “savings pools”. “At ~14:36 GMT we noticed a discrepancy in the APYs of our stablecoin pools and identified that ~2.0mn DAI had....

Blockchain records show the hackers got away with more than $2,051,159 in DAI before moving the funds to a different address. Hackers were reportedly able to exploit savings pools at Gibraltar-based decentralized finance protocol Akropolis, getting away with more than $2 million in stablecoins. The firm stated on Twitter on April 12 that it had identified a hack “executed across a body of smart contracts in the savings pools.” Akropolis said the areas targeted by the hackers had already been audited twice, and only included “Curve Y and Curve sUSD savings pools.”Ethereum blockchain records....

Akropolis says calling it a merger “is a bit of a misnomer.” Yearn.finance announced on Monday yet another merger, this time with Akropolis, a multiproduct decentralized finance protocol featuring yield optimization and undercollateralized loans.Like the Cream Finance merger announced last week, the two ecosystems will remain largely independent in terms of their tokens and overall product lines, a shared announcement clarifies. However, like with Pickle Finance, Akropolis will now integrate Yearn vault technology and will publish its yield farming strategies on its Vault V2 platform.The....

While the last few weeks have been sideways moving for major cryptocurrencies, Akropolis (AKRO) had a 22.5% rally. In one year, the Ethereum-based protocol’s native token has seen gains of 5,868%, and its latest updates point to more potential. With $27.99 million in total value locked, investors can review up to 38.73% in annual staking […]

Four hacks in a week are too much, even for DeFi. If people actually used insurance against hacks, this week would definitely have bankrupted a great many insurers. A total of four flash loan-enabled exploits were registered in the span of one week (one of them actually happened the week before, but nobody noticed until later).We have, in order, Cheese Bank with a $3.3-million theft, Akropolis with its $2-million loss, Value DeFi with a whopping $6-million exploit, and finally Origin Protocol’s loss of $7 million.In total the hackers stole $18.3 million, which admittedly is not that much —....