DeFi Just Lost $15 Billion in Three Days. Something Deeper Than a Hack Is Beh...
DeFi is having one of its most difficult weeks in recent memory. What started as a single exploit on April 19 has since cascaded into a system-wide liquidity shock that has rattled confidence across the ecosystem and raised questions that go well beyond the incident itself. Related Reading: Another $142M Staked – Bitmine Tightens Its Grip on Ethereum Supply The event began at Kelp DAO, where an attacker identified and exploited a critical flaw in the protocol’s collateral system. To understand what happened, it helps to understand what rsETH is supposed to be. Under normal....
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Since mid-November the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has slid from $257 billion to $250.55 billion and during the last 24 hours it lost a touch more than 5%. Over the last seven days, defi tokens like uniswap, pancakeswap, curve dao token, 1inch and sushi have lost anywhere between 15% to 23.9% in value.
Defi TVL Drops — Curve, Makerdao and Convex Finance Dominate
At the time of writing, the TVL in defi protocols across a myriad of blockchains is $250.55 billion, according to metrics from defillama.com. The aggregate defi value locked has lost....
The value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols has lost 17.77% over the last 30 days, falling from $221.67 billion to today’s $182.27 billion. Moreover, statistics show the total value locked (TVL) across a broad range of defi protocols shed significant value during the last seven days.
Defi Protocols Shed Considerable Value
Decentralized finance (defi) protocols have lost lots of value during the last month, as 17.77% has been shaved off the TVL in defi since April 8, 2022. The largest defi protocol, in terms of TVL size, Curve Finance, lost 16.55% this past....
Cream finance, a defi borrowing and lending protocol, has been the victim of a hack that erased more than $29 million from its vaults. The attacker took advantage of a loophole in the implementation for adding the amp token to the protocol. This is the second time the platform has been involved in a hack. The first breach happened in February, when Cream lost $37.5 million.
Cream Protocol Suffers Hack
Cream protocol, a defi lending-borrowing platform present on four different chains (Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, and Fantom), suffered a hack Monday that resulted in the loss of $29....
Over the last six days, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has dropped 9.21% from a high of $232.88 billion on April 5, to today’s $211.43 billion. The value locked in defi protocols shed 4.40% of that value during the last 24 hours.
Value Locked in Defi Shudders This Week
While the crypto economy has shed billions, the defi landscape has also felt the brunt of the storm. Last week, the TVL in defi neared a record high but most of that value has been erased since April 5. At the time of writing on Monday, April 11, 2022, the TVL in defi is....
Recently, Sovryn, a Bitcoin-based DeFi protocol, lost $1 million in digital assets through a hack. The hacker executed the attack through price manipulation and carted away $1 million in crypto, including 44.93 RBTC and 211,045 USDT. The incessant hack attacks on crypto platforms have become a plague in the crypto industry, leaving questions of who […]