Buggy Code in This Compound Finance Fork Just Froze $1M in Ethereum Tokens

The Ethereum hard fork, executed to prevent future hacks like the DAO fiasco, marks the first Ethereum bailout, according to Frances Coppola, a finance, banking and economics journalist, writing in Forbes. The Ethereum community needed the hard fork to prevent future hacks because the code wasn’t properly tested to begin with, disproving the claim of “immutability.” The majority of Ethereum miners had invested in DAO, so it’s no surprise they supported the hard fork since it allowed them to recover their investments. Those who objected on the grounds that the hard fork eliminated 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 […]

Compound protocol has placed $150 million worth of COMP tokens at risk, but a bug fix is likely to remedy the situation after giving the community a scare. As the decentralized finance (DeFi) market continues to pique the interest of investors across the globe, a few incidents have shone a major spotlight on the vulnerabilities various platforms operating within this space are continually exposed to. For example, it has recently been unveiled that due to a buggy system upgrade, prominent DeFi money market Compound had put approximately $150 million worth of the native COMP tokens at risk....

The code bug has plagued the cETH market and has affected Compound’s front-end user face, but the CEO confirmed that “funds are not immediately at risk.” Decentralized lending platform Compound has been plagued by a code bug in a recent governance proposal to update its price feeds. The code error has “temporarily frozen” the Compound ETH (cETH) market, causing cETH transactions to revert, but Compound Labs stated that despite the front end not working, “funds are not immediately at risk.”Compound Labs announced on Aug. 31 that the code bug came from Proposal 117: Compound Oracle Upgrade....

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 […]