Compound pauses 4 tokens to avoid price manipulation: Finance Redefined
The last week of October turned bearish for the DeFi market despite the string of hacks, as the majority of the DeFi protocols registered bullish weekly 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.After the Mango Markets exploit last week, Compound protocol paused the supply of four tokens as lending collateral to protect it against any price manipulation.Crypto staking protocol Freeway said one of its trading strategies “appears to have failed,”....
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Compound users can no longer use YFI, ZRX, BAT and MKR tokens as collateral for loans. Decentralized lending protocol Compound has paused the supply of four tokens as lending collateral on its platform, aiming to protect users against potential attacks involving price manipulation, similar to the recent $117 million exploit of Mango Markets, according to a proposal on Compound’s governance forum that was recently passed.With the pause, users will not be able to deposit Yearn.finance’s YFI (YFI), 0x’s ZRX, Basic Attention Token (BAT) and Maker’s MKR (MKR) as collateral to take loans.The....
Compound Finance (COMP) was the latest victim of a bug that led to millions worth of tokens lost. The bug had affected the latest rewards distribution round that saw an additional $50 million worth of COMP tokens distributed. About 280,000 tokens were reported to be at risk after Proposal 062 was executed, leading to discrepancies […]
DeFi exploits are too common for mass adoption. But there are solutions to the oracle problem. It seems like every week we hear news of another DeFi project being hacked or exploited. The latest crop of victims includes such projects as Harvest Finance, Akropolis, Value DeFi, Origin and of course Compound.When exploits do occur, they usually involve manipulating the reference price like ETH/DAI on a data source, such as Curve, Kyber or Coinbase Pro. Sometimes, it’s a mistake, as in the SNX case where the Korean Won was quoted with the wrong decimal place.Related: Finance Redefined: You get....
Compound Finance’s native token COMP was among the biggest gainers in the decentralized finance space on Wednesday. The fourth-largest DeFi token by market cap surged by more than 10 percent, hitting an intraday high of $154.08 as traders assessed a flurry of upside fundamentals around it. A pseudonymous analyst noted that the Compound protocol lured […]
Everyone’s trying to jump ship from Ethereum’s layer one, apparently. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.It seems that this week, finally, the community has had enough of Ethereum’s gas fees.That is obviously a bit of hyperbole, as gas fees are high precisely because people are willing to pay such a premium for Ethereum block space. But we’re seeing a kind of “applied trickle-down economics,” where a few brave degens are venturing outside to see what else exists in the world.The effect has been particularly pronounced on....