The exploit, which occurred on March 16, didn’t appear to impact XVS prices until analysis showed major holders moving large amounts to exchanges.
The exploit, which occurred on March 16, didn’t appear to impact XVS prices until analysis showed major holders moving large amounts to exchanges.The Venus protocol was exploited on March 16, resulting in $2.
15 million in bad debt and a 9% drop in the value of its governance token XVS. The attacker manipulated the THE token market, borrowed assets, and sold THE, causing a 17% price drop and liquidations, with estimated profits of $3.7-5.8 million. Venus responded by pausing THE borrows and adjusting collateral values, and is now considering how to cover the loss through its risk fund. The governance token of Venus , a BNB Chain-based money market with over $1.4 billion in total value locked, has dropped more than 9% in 24 hours after an exploit that left it with $2.15 million in bad debt.The exploit, which occurred on March 16, didn’t appear to impact XVS prices until analysis showed major holders, including wallets linked to Justin Sun, moving large amounts to exchanges.the exploit, in its Thena market left about $2.15 million in bad debt or loans the system can no longer recover. The attacker, according to the protocol, spent about nine months accumulating a large position in Thena's THE token. That accumulation, according toThe attacker then donated more than 36 million THE straight to the vTHE contract, skipping the normal cap checks and lifting the market’s exchange rate by about 3.8 times. The gap in code that allowed the attacker to skip these checks, Venus said, is being closed. With that higher paper value, the attacker posted THE as collateral, borrowed other assets and bought more THE in a thin market, according to Venus. The buying helped lift THE from about $0.26 to near $0.56. Venus said this was not a flash-loan attack, its oracles kept working and Venus Flux was not affected. When the attacker later sold THE, the price dropped more than 17% in less than a day and liquidations followed.puts the value pulled before liquidations at roughly $3.7 million to $5.8 million, with assets including tokenized bitcoin, BNB, and stablecoins being taken. The damage was mostly limited to THE token and, to a lesser extent, CAKE. It also said no user funds were lost outside the affected pools. The protocol paused THE borrows and withdrawals, cut THE’s collateral value to zero and tightened rules on other markets identified as at-risk in response to the incident. Markets at-risk include those for The attacking address had been flagged by the community before the incident. Venus did not act as “no rules had been broken, and no exploit had occurred," it said. “Venus is a decentralized protocol. As a permissionless protocol, we cannot and should not freeze or blacklist addresses based on suspicion alone,” the protocol wrote on social media. “This is a tension inherent to DeFi, and one we take seriously.”Bitcoin and ether fell Thursday, tracking broader risk-off sentiment, after the Fed held interest rates and boosted the U.S. dollar. Energy markets surged as the war with Iran notched up, with oil and gas price spikes adding macro pressure to crypto.16 hours ago
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