Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.
The attacker who stole $46 million from the KyberSwap protocol has used a complex strategy described by a DeFi expert as an “infinite money glitch.” With the exploit, the attackers tricked the platform’s smart contract into believing it had more liquidity available than it did.
Australia’s tax regulator has failed to clarify its rules on DeFi despite Cointelegraph reaching out for answers. The regulator could not answer whether capital gains taxes apply to liquid staking and transferring assets to layer-2 bridges.
The DeFi ecosystem flourished in the past week thanks to ongoing bullish market momentum, with most of the tokens trading in green on the weekly charts.
KyberSwap attacker used “infinite money glitch” to drain funds — DeFi expert
DeFi expert Doug Colkitt laid out a thread on X (formerly Twitter), describing the smart contract exploit engineered by the KyberSwap attacker who drained $46 million from the protocol.
Colkitt described the exploit as an “infinite money glitch,” where the hackers tricked the smart contract into believing that…
