Babylon Finance Announces Termination Of Services Following A Ruinous Hack
According to a statement made on August 31 by Babylon Finance company’s founder Ramon Recuero, the company will stop offering its services for the DeFi asset management protocol on November 15. Babylon Finance Shuts Down Services Ramon Recuero, founder of Babylon Finance, disclosed the decision on Twitter in the late hours of Wednesday. The software […]
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BABL, the protocol's native token, crashed to a new all-time low of $0.23 after the founder announced that it's shutting down operations. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Babylon Finance has finally announced that it will shut down after months of trying to recover from the negative momentum that the Rari Fuse exploit caused. In a statement, founder Ramon Recuero explained that the platform experienced an insurmountable negative streak despite their team’s efforts to endure the domino effect caused by the hack. According to Recuero, the protocol lost $3.4 million in the hack.....
One of South Africa’s biggest banks, Standard Bank, has reportedly sent account termination notices to clients that offer automated cryptocurrency arbitrage services. Bank’s Criteria Questioned This move, according to a Mybroadband report, has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. The sending of the notices has also raised questions about the criteria that Standard Bank is using when making a decision on which accounts must be terminated. For example, Carel de Villiers, the co-founder of an arbitrage trading firm Shiftly, is one individual quoted questioning....
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 […]
Emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, YFDAI Finance, announces the launch of two new services – SafeSwap and Launchpad, both key moves in the promotion of mass growth and adoption of DeFi services. DeFi is becoming the “next big thing,” in which cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology deploy for new uses and a widening user-base. […]
The Alpha Homora hack is still rippling through markets. Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.The Alpha Homora and Cream Finance hack has made a gigantic mark in the DeFi space this week.It is the largest single hack in DeFi history at $37 million in funds stolen. It is also one of the most complex, apparently leveraging several honest-to-God vulnerabilities in Alpha Homora. A few missing input checks in very specialized conditions allowed the hacker to abuse Alpha Homora’s privilege of borrowing an unlimited amount of funds....