Finance Redefined: Solana and Nomad bridge fall prey to exploits losing millions
The top 100 DeFi tokens had a mixed price action over the past week, with many seeing a downturn after some bullish action last week. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.This past week, the DeFi ecosystem saw two exploits, one after another, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars. First, cross-bridge token platform Nomad became a victim of what many deemed a decentralized robbery, which saw almost $190 million drained out of their....
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Bridge exploits continue to prove to be a top concern across DeFi and crypto at large, as bridges time and time again have proven to be a major point of vulnerability. Enter once again another prime example with the latest 9-figure exploit, this time on the multi-chain Nomad Bridge. In the early hours following the exploit, we’re looking at an exploit in the range of $160-190M – let’s take a look at this and more from what we know thus far. Nomad’s Collapse According to Defi Llama, the bridge closed off July with a TVL of right around $190M, and as August went....
On Monday, the cross-chain token bridge Nomad was attacked and hackers managed to siphon $190 million from the protocol, draining a great majority of the funds. The Nomad cross-chain bridge attack was the third-biggest crypto heist of 2022, and the ninth largest of all time.
Nomad Cross-Chain Bridge Exploited for $190 Million
Cross-chain bridges in the world of decentralized finance (defi) just can’t catch a break no matter how long they have been running and even after the bridges have been audited. On August 1, 2022, the cross-chain bridge Nomad suffered an attack that....
Nomad announced that it’s offering up to a 10% bounty to return funds stolen from the recent hack on the Nomad bridge on Aug. 2. Nomad announced a bounty of up to 10% for the return of the stolen funds from the Nomad bridge. In a website announcement and tweet, the company publicly provided a wallet address for sending the funds. The bounty is applicable to anyone who comes forward from now on or already returned funds. At the time of writing, Nomad recovered more than $20 million. The Nomad token bridge suffered a massive hack on Aug. 2. This incident was among the largest in the history....
Hundreds of potential exploiters appear to have drained all of the bridge’s $190 million in TVL in just a matter of hours. The Nomad token bridge appears to have experienced a security exploit that has allowed hackers to systematically drain the bridge’s funds over a long series of transactions.Nearly the entire $190.7 million in crypto has been removed from the bridge, with only $651.54 left remaining in the wallet, according to decentralized finance (DeFi) tracking platform DeFi Llama.Nomad bridge is getting drained, your funds might be at risk and might be able to still withdraw the....
Majority of the DeFi tokens in the top-100 had a mixed week as several tokens traded in red while a few others managed to make double-digit gains. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.This past week, there were some major developments in the run-up to the upcoming Ethereum Merge slated for Sept. 15. Bitfinex became the latest crypto exchange to throw its support behind the chain split token.While DeFi bridge hacks have become a norm this year,....