Beanstalk Farms offers plea deal to perpetrators of $76M exploit

Beanstalk Farms offers plea deal to perpetrators of $76M exploit

Beanstalk Farms offered a whitehat bounty to exploiters and outlined its plans moving forward should it be unsuccessful in its plea. Beanstalk Farms, a credit-based stablecoin protocol exploited for around $76 million in crypto on April 18, has offered a bounty of 10% if the attackers return the funds. The offer was posted on the company’s Twitter and sent to the attackers via an on-chain message the following day. It proposed that the exploiters return 90% of the stolen funds to the Beanstalk Farms’ multisignature wallet. In return, the exploiters will be allowed to keep the remaining 10%....


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