Weekly DeFi Recap: Reimbursements, Exploits, and Optimistic Milestones

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. Over two weeks after Curve Finance’s multiple pool exploits, the DeFi protocol has assured the hack victims t ...

Zunami Protocol confirms stablecoin pools attacked, $2.1M loss estimated

Decentralized finance protocol Zunami Protocol has advised users not to buy any of its Zunami Ether (zETH) or Zunami USD (UZD) stablecoins, after encountering an attack on its "zStables" pools on Curve Finance. On Aug. 13,  Zunami confirmed on X (Twitter) that its stablecoin pool ...

DeFi tries to recover from Curve hack, but exploits continue: Finance Redefined

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 DeFi ecosystem is yet to recover from the crisis brought on by the Curve Finance hack, and even tho ...

Curve Finance opens bounty after exploiter’s return deadline expires

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 hac ...

JPEG’d confirms return of 5,495 ETH from Curve hacker

Nonfungible token finance (NFT-Fi) protocol JPEG’d has confirmed that 5,495 Ether (ETH), worth roughly $10 million at current prices, has been returned by the Curve Finance hacker. In exchange for returning the funds that were stolen on July 30, the hacker received a 610.6 ETH ($1.1 ...

Curve-Vyper exploit: The whole story so far

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced a challenging week after a seismic security incident led to over $61 million being stolen from Curve Finance’s pools, leaving several protocols facing broader contagion risks.This attack exposed vulnerabilities across DeFi pr ...

CRV exposure risk throws a curveball at the DeFi ecosystem: Finance Redefined

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 $47 million Curve Finance exploit on July 30 had a domino effect on the DeFi ecosystem, mainly due ...

Curve hacker behind $61M heist begins returning funds

The attacker behind the $61 million July 30 Curve Finance attack has returned 4,820.55 Alchemix ETH (alETH), worth approximately $8,889,118, to the Alchemix Finance team and 1 ETH, approximately $1,844, to the Curve Finance team. The Alchemix Finance protocol alETH-ETH pool on Curve is one of the ...

Curve, Metronome and Alchemix offering 10% bug bounty on Vyper hack

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms Curve, Metronome and Alchemix have jointly announced an initiative to recover stolen funds from the recent exploits of Curve’s pools.According to on-chain data, the protocols are offering a 10% bounty of the stolen funds as a reward, urging thos ...

Curve’s crvUSD depegs as market reacts to shock events

Curve Finance’s native stablecoin, crvUSD, briefly depegged on Aug. 3, reacting to an uncertain environment surrounding the protocol after its recent exploit. In the course of the day, the stablecoin fell by as much as 0.35% before regaining its peg to the United States dollar.Curve& ...

Curve emergency DAO terminates rewards for hack-related pools

The Curve Finance lending protocol has terminated governance token rewards for select liquidity pools affected by the July 30 Curve exploit and July 6 Multichain exploit, according to an Aug. 2 social media post from a member of the protocol’s governing body. The ending of rewar ...

Curve founder looks to unexpected counterparties to rescue sinking DeFi loans

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov is attempting to offload some of his DeFi positions to alleviate his mountain of debt, but some have highlighted his liquidity sources.On Aug. 1, Nansen research analyst Sandra Leow posted a list of liquidity sources for Egorov’s Curve DAO (CRV) p ...

Curve liquidation risk poses systemic threat to DeFi even as founder scurries to repay loans

On July 30, Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange on Ethereum, suffered a hack due to a vulnerability in certain pools built using the Vyper programming language.The price of Curve DAO (CRV) dropped 20.91% on the day of the hack, falling to a two-month low of $0.58. The next day, ...

Ethereum logs $1M MEV block reward amid Curve Finance exploit

The recent Curve Finance exploit has reportedly led to one of the largest ever maximal extractable value (MEV) reward blocks of 584.05 Ether (ETH). On July 31, Ethereum core developer “eric.eth” reported that “today has produced some of the largest MEV reward blocks ...

Curve Finance pools exploited in over $24M due to reentrancy vulnerability

Several stable pools on Curve Finance using Vyper were exploited on July 30, with losses reaching $24 million at the time of writing. According to Vyper, its 0.2.15, 0.2.16 and 0.3.0 versions are vulnerable to malfunctioning reentrancy locks. "The investigation is ongoing but any proj ...

Aave Protocol launches stablecoin GHO on Ethereum mainnet, $2M minted

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave has launched its algorithmic United States-dollar pegged stablecoin GHO on the Ethereum mainnet, with $2.19 million worth of GHO minted so far.Aave announced the launch of the new stablecoin in a July 16 blog post, describing the new stablecoin GH ...

Stablecoin protocol Reserve invests $20M in Convex, Curve and Stake DAO

Stablecoin protocol Reserve is investing $20 million into the governance tokens of yield farming apps Curve (CRV), Convex (CVX) and Stake DAO (SDT), according to a June 20 announcement. The investment is intended to increase the liquidity of Reserve’s stablecoins, called RTokens. It will also inc ...

Curve’s (CRV) price hits a 1-year low amid looming liquidation threat

Curve DAO’s governance token CRV dropped 12% on June15 after reports surfaced of risky loans taken by its founder, Michael Egorov, on Aave. The token recorded its lowest trading level against ether (ETH) at 0.00035010 ETH on June 15.According to on-chain analytics outlet LookOnChain, Egoro ...

Curve Finance CEO and Wife Make Record-Breaking Real Estate Purchase in Melbourne

This is the couple's second major purchase in the local real estate market Their combined property measures 5,663 square meters Mansion in Melbourne was also previously purchased by Kick founder Ed Craven The CEO of Curve Finance, Mikhail Yegorov, and ...

Curve Finance Launches crvUSD Stablecoin on Ethereum Network

The developers of the decentralized exchange Curve Finance announced the launch of the crvUSD steblecoin on the core Etherium network. Smart contracts for the functioning of the token have already been successfully deployed, but the user interface for working with them is ...