DeFi Protocols Cream Finance, Alpha Exploited, $37.5M Lost: ‘Prime Suspect’ ID’d

Though a "prime suspect" has been identified, how will the protocol make itself whole? In one of the largest exploits of the DeFi era, this morning an attacker successfully drained over $37 million from Alpha Homora by leveraging Cream’s Iron Bank protocol-to-protocol lending platform. Alpha Finance Lab, whose protocol was audited by Quantstamp and Peckshield, announced on Twitter this morning that they were aware of an attack, that the “loophole” that allowed it had been patched, and that the team had a “prime suspect”:Dear Alpha community, we've been notified of an exploit on Alpha....

Ethereum defi protocol Cream Finance suffered an exploit yesterday that allowed attackers to steal $130 million from its holdings. The news was first revealed by Peckshield, a blockchain analytics company that discovered a flash loan had exploited the platform. This is the third hack the protocol has suffered in its history, being exploited for $36 and $29 million before, respectively. Cream Finance Hacked Yet Again Cream Finance, an Ethereum-based lending and borrowing protocol, suffered an exploit that allowed the hackers to steal $130 million worth of ether and ERC-20 tokens.....

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....

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....

The Iron Bank feature will allow protocols to borrow funds without posting collateral. The Cream Finance project, a lending protocol that recently merged into the Yearn ecosystem, announced the upcoming launch of its Iron Bank feature, a name inspired by the once-popular TV show Game Of Thrones.Cream’s Iron Bank is an attempt to create a decentralized finance equivalent of corporate debt. The announcement, released on Thursday, explains how the market for peer-to-peer lending in traditional finance, worth $70 billion, pales in comparison with the world of corporate credit, with $10....