Ankr, a distributed node operator for POS networks that allows users to stake their tokens easily without having to buy the necessary hardware, has announced a fresh update in the wake of the recent e...
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Ankr Deploys $15M to Buy Back Bad Debt Following Exploit
Blockchain infrastructure platform Ankr has announced that it would be allocating $15 million to cover the bad debt as a result of its recent exploit. Ankr To Buy Back Bad Debt Blockchain infrastruc...
Ankr deploys $15M to make users whole as Helio stablecoin recovers after exploit
Stablecoin protocol Helio, which issues the U.S. dollar-pegged HAY stablecoin, said in a Dec. 7 tweet that it has bought back $3 million worth of bad debt in HAY thus far in the open market. The day p...
Analyzing Ankr’s Liquid-Staking Protocol Infinite Mint Exploit
December 3, 2022, 7:31PM EST • 8 min read Quick Take Rapid Insights provide a deeper analysis of the current crypto landscape in a timely fashion The Ankr protocol’s liquid-staking derivative, aBNBc, ...
Ankr Crypto Protocol Exploit Lost $15 Million
October 2022 is the month with the most number of crypto hacks. On December 2, 2022, An anonymous group of hackers drained around $15 million in liquidity from BNB Chain-based staking platform Helio...
Here is An Update on a BNB Token Exploit
Ankr, a decentralized blockchain infrastructure provider that operates an array of nodes globally distributed across more than 50 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) networks. Recently, the decentralized blockchain ...
Ankr Exploit Causes Collateral Damage
Decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr sought to reassure its community Friday with an initial response to the theft of at least $5.5 million from BNB Chain liquidity pools and money markets....
Ankr confirms exploit, asks for immediate trading halt
BNB Chain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Ankr has confirmed it has been hit by a multi-million dollar exploit on Dec. 1. The attack appeared to be first discovered by on-chain security an...
Web3 protocol Ankr reports $5M in damages following BNB token exploit
A web3 infrastructure platform Ankr has reported that the approximate damage caused by the ongoing exploit might account for as much as $5 million worth of BNB tokens. The announcement follows the pla...
BNB Chain-Based Defi Protocol Ankr Suffers Major Exploit – Defi Bitcoin News
Decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr has become the latest victim of a hacking attack targeting the defi space. The perpetrators who hit the platform were able to mint and steal a massive a...
BNB-Based HAY ‘Destablecoin’ Loses Peg Following Ankr Exploit
BNB Chain-based Destablecoin HAY has lost its $1 peg as a result of the exploit of Ankr Protocol. The team stated that they would provide an update soon. Market data shows that HAY, a ‘destablecoin’ o...
BNB and its staking derivatives suffer huge dump following the Ankr exploit
Ankr suffered an exploit that led to the minting of a huge number of aBNBc tokens This exploit led traders to significantly distribute aBNBc and other staking derivatives of BNB coin In the early trad...
Binance freezes $3M from Ankr exploit
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed on Dec. 2 that the exchange froze around $3 million of the funds from Ankr’s hack. Possible hacks on Ankr and Hay. Initial analysis is developer private key was hac...
DeFi Protocol Ankr Hit By Multi-Million Dollar Exploit
With the crypto industry’s focus on the FTX fiasco, DeFi hackers have been making merry, hitting Ankr, and as per information available, stealing $5 million. Hackers were able to exploit an unlimited ...
Ankr Protocol suspends trading following $5 million DeFi exploit
Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr Protocol has become the latest platform to fall victim to decentralized finance (DeFi) exploit. The exploit on the BNB chain-based DeFi protocol earlier on 2 December...
Ankr Suffers Exploit, Binance CEO Clarifies What’s Happening
A new month, a new DeFi hack! While the situation and what happened remains unclear, it looks like a hacker has exploited the decentralized financial protocol Ankr. As Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) ...
Ankr Protocol Becomes Latest DeFi Exploit Victim
DeFi hackers have been busy while all attention is focused on Sam Bankman-Fried’s interviews. Ankr Procotol has reported an exploit on its platform. Details are thin on the ground at the moment, but t...
Compound tightens its rules to prevent Aave-like exploit, details inside
Compound DAO had voted unanimously to implement changes in the rules of the protocol This move was motivated by the need to keep the protocol safe after the Aave exploit Recently, COMP holders at Comp...
Compound Finance to impose lending caps in light of failed Aave exploit
Users of decentralized finance lending platform Compound Finance have passed a proposal to restrict the maximum borrowing of 10 tokens on the protocol. The proposal put forth by financial modeling fir...
Aave Community Proposes Governance Changes Following Attempted Crypto Exploit
Community members of lending and borrowing platform Aave (AAVE) are submitting a governance proposal in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to exploit the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Accord...
AAVE endures this exploit with minor injuries, but what explains the 40% drop
AAVE’s suffers an attack at the hands of the Mango Markets hacker Aave suffered minimal losses, with no impact on the price of the AAVE token The cryptocurrency market has taken a beating recently, ...
Mango Market hacker’s attempt to exploit Aave fails
Mango Market’s exploiter Avraham Eisenberg’s attempt to replicate his “highly profitable trading strategy” on Aave (AAVE) has failed, resulting in the loss of millions. CRV war was played out on #Aave...
Mango Market Hacker Loses Millions Attempting Exploit on Aave
56 mins ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Avraham Eisenberg recently borrowed 40 million curve (CRV) tokens. Eisenberg openly detailed a plot to exploit a vulnerability in Aave’s lending standards. One ...
Mango Markets hacker allegedly feigns Curve short attack to exploit Aave
As described by analysts at Lookonchain on Nov. 22, tokens of decentralized exchange Curve Finance (CRV) appear to have suffered a major short-seller attack. According to Lookonchain, ponzishorter.eth...
FTX’s $380 million trail: An exploit to uncover or a final inside job
About $380 million flowed out of the FTX exchange due to a exploit or likely insider hack Exchange counsel said company is investigating proceedings FTX customers’ hope of getting their funds out migh...
FTX users exploit loophole to withdraw crypto
Listen to this article. As the FTX meltdown continues, worried users are turning to inventive, risky, and most probably illegal workarounds to attempt to extract what funds they can from the Bahamas-b...
GALA token exploit resulted from public leak of private key on GitHub
According to a new post by blockchain security firm SlowMist on Nov. 7, it appears that the last week’s token exploit affecting GameFi project Gala Games resulted from a public leak of applicable secu...
Gala token exploit ‘not a white hat act’: Huobi Global
Days after GameFi project Gala Games and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol pNetwork assured its community that everything was fine, crypto exchange Huobi Global came out with its version of the st...
A new DeFi hack! A $1.26 million exploit hits Solana’s Solend
The Crypto market in general and decentralized finance (Defi) in particular has seen so many attacks in recent years. This is considered to be one of the main reasons why the crypto market is in a dow...
Crypto Exchange Deribit Disables Withdrawals After Hot Wallet Exploit Drained $28 Million In Crypto ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Last night, Deribit, a leading crypto derivatives exchange, was the latest victim of a hack that ultimately drained the exchange of $28 million. The ...
FEG recovers 90% liquidity after Team Finance Exploit
Team Finance suffered a huge loss of $14.5 million, including the FEG liquidity. According to the on-chain data, the affected areas in the exploit had recovered all the stolen funds leaving the 10% bo...
Team Finance hacker returns $7M to associated projects after exploit
Four projects have received some $7 million worth of tokens from the hacker behind the $14.5 million Team Finance exploit on Oct. 27. Over the weekend, the attacker confirmed in a series of messages t...