Curve DAO token lost 17% of its value under a massive attack. A series of exploits targeting DeFi projects in Curve Finance, leaving the platform in a vulnerable position with $100 million worth of cryptocurrency at risk.
Curve, one of the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, announced a series of CRV pools got exploited due to a smart contract vulnerability called “reentrancy.”
The attack targeted factory pool, a model that allows projects or individuals to launch their own liquidity pool through Curve’s infrastructure.
“A number of stablepools (alETH/msETH/pETH) using Vyper 0.2.15 have been exploited as a result of a malfunctioning reentrancy lock. We are dealing with the situation and will update the community as things develop,” according to Curve Finance’s announcement.
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