Demand for blockchain-based T-bill offerings has been steadily rising as the yield on U.S. government debt, widely considered as risk-free, surpassed yields in decentralized finance (DeFi). Digital asset firms, crypto investment funds and protocol treasuries often hold substantial amount of cash in stablecoins. Tokenized Treasuries offer them a shield from inflation and a way to earn some yield. Source
ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures, and 1kx have jointly filed a lawsuit against Curve Finance CEO Michael Egorov, asserting claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information. The case was filed in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco. The venture capital (VC) firms allege that Egorov used the information to develop a competing project, CRV.finance, without their permission. They also claim that Egorov tried to prevent them from investing in CRV.finance by misrepresenting the project’s risks. This is the latest in a series of legal troubles for Curve Finance. In…
The snap poll comes after Curve’s monumental hack ripped through Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) and, according to Srivatsa’s blog post, reminded Saddle’s team of the ever-present threat of exploitable bugs. He said the protocol’s developers need to step back from the project by September 30, 2023. Source
The United States Attorneys’ Office has announced another superseding indictment against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, also known as “SBF,” which will include consideration of an allegedly illegal campaign finance scheme. In an Aug. 8 letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to pursue seven charges against SBF in its trial scheduled to begin in October. Though the DoJ said it was “prevented by its treaty obligations to the Bahamas” from adding an eighth count to SBF’s indictment on violations of campaign…
Curve Finance, a popular decentralized (DeFi) protocol, has recently announced that it was rewarding persons capable of identifying the exploiters behind the draining of over $61 million from the platform’s stable pools on July 30. The huge bounty offer is open to every person who can pinpoint the individual behind the incident in such a way that would lead to definitive legal repercussions. Curve Finance Extends Bounty Offer to the Public Curve Finance announced the public offer using an Ethereum transaction’s input data, noting that the allowed time for the…
Over the past week, all $22 million in ether (ETH) and ether derivatives stolen from lending protocol AlchemixFi were returned. A trading bot returned 90% in ether stolen from JPEGd, ethical hacker “c0ffeebabe.eth” returned over $6 million from synthetic protocol Metronome and a Curve trading pool, while another ethical hacker returned $13 million from Alchemix. Source
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Curve Finance is extending a bug bounty offer to anyone who is able to identify the exploiter responsible for draining over $61 million from its pools on July 30. Curve and other protocols affected by the attack offered a 10% bug bounty to the hacker on Aug. 3, totaling more than $6 million. Upon accepting the offer, the hacker returned stolen assets to Alchemix and JPEGd, but did not complete refunds to other affected pools. As the deadline has passed, anyone who can identify the attacker…
Coinbase’s Head of Research, David Duong, has shared his insights on the recent market movements in traditional finance and crypto. He believes that current macro conditions suggest a temporary pause in the recent strong USD trend, which should support the crypto market. Key Crypto & Finance Movements Duong notes that the recent carry trades upset by the Bank of Japan’s decision to raise the hard cap on its 10-year bond yield have created instability across different pockets of the FX market. Meanwhile, the surprise decision by Brazil’s central bank to…
In a surprising turn of events, the hacker known as the “Alchemix/Curve Finance Exploiter” has returned a total of 4,819.55 alteth and 6106 Ethereum (ETH) to Alchemix Finance, as reported by the journalist Colin Wu. The hacker, who had gained unauthorized access to the protocol, had earlier demanded that the Alchemix Finance team confirm the address to which they wanted the stolen funds returned. Curve Finance Breach Ends On Positive Note Curve Finance has announced the return of stolen funds worth over $60 million, which were taken in a recent…
Following the recent Curve Finance exploit, the perpetrator has made a surprising move by returning a significant portion of the stolen assets to the protocol. Reports indicate that the exploiter has sent around $12.7 million worth of 4,820 Alchemix Ethereum (alETH) and 2,258 Ethereum (ETH) to the Alchemix Finance platform. Hacker returns $12.7 million worth of alETH The events follow Curve’s request to the hacker on Aug. 3 to return the funds, after which the hacker requested that they confirm the address. The hacker labeled as “Alchemix/CurveFinance Exploiter” returned a…