Cream Finance to repay stolen Ether and Amp via protocol fees
Cream Finance has identified the AMP integration error that caused a nearly $19 million loss for the protocol and aims to pay users back. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Cream Finance will pay back its users following a $18.8 million flash loan hack that occurred on Aug. 30.Cream has published a post-mortem to the AMP flash loan exploit, promising to replace the stolen Ether (ETH) and Amp (AMP) tokens by allocating 20% of all protocol fees until the debt is paid entirely. Cream will also post collateral with relevant parties at AMP and its creators, Flexa digital payments network, to....
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Cream Finance is a decentralized finance protocol to repay users for the flash loan hack on its platform. The hack of nearly $19 million occurred on Aug 30, 2021. Cream Finance puts news of a post-mortem to the massive exploitation of the AMP flash loan. The protocol promises to repay the stolen Amp (AMP) and Ether (ETH) coins. It plans on footing its promise by allocating 20% of all the protocol fees until the debt is fully paid. Furthermore, the protocol will post collateral with the pertinent parties at AMP. It will also involve the Flexa digital payments network, the creators, for the....
Lossless also plans to ship a security tool that will reportedly aid DeFi projects in preventing hacks and exploits on their platforms. Lossless, a decentralized finance (DeFi) security outfit, has assisted in the recovery of 5,152.6 Ether (ETH) siphoned during the Cream Finance exploit that occurred in August.Tweeting on Monday, Lossless identified white hat security expert Pascal Caversaccio as being pivotal to the successful recovery of the siphoned funds. As previously reported by Cointelegraph, DeFi lending protocol, Cream Finance suffered a flash loan attack to the tune of $19....
Hackers run wild, but DeFi marches on — all that and more in this week's Finance Redefined. Welcome to the latest iteration of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.Just as quickly as the summer departed from our calendars, millions of funds were hacked from the wallets of Cream Finance. This has been another jam-packed week in the DeFi space. Here are some top picks for the biggest stories in what is my debut appearance as Finance Redefined’s newsletter writer.What you’re reading is the shorter, snappier version of the newsletter. For the full roundup of DeFi developments....
Cream Finance is the latest Ethereum DeFi protocol to suffer another hack. The attackers had used a flash loan attack and made away with $130 million. Cream Finance confirmed the attack via a Twitter post where the project revealed that they were investigating the cause of the hack. The exploit had exposed vulnerabilities in the […]
PeckShield reported through a tweet of the new hack on Cream Finance. The blockchain security company said a flash loan attack on the decentralized finance lending and borrowing protocol. #FlashLoanAlert https://t.co/JPW7e368qd — PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) August 30, 2021 PeckShield explained that the hacking came through a 500 Ethereum flash loan from the attacker. This was used to infiltrate a reentrancy bug in the smart contract of the Flex Network. Usually, flash loans being undercollateralized can be borrowed and repaid within a single transaction. Related Reading |....