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Curve Finance Guarantees Users to Compensate Them Following the $62 Million Exploit
Curve Finance has assured the community that it will reimburse those consumers who have been affected by the recent exploit.
Curve Finance, a popular decentralized finance (DeFi) company, has formally announced relieving news for users. The platform has assured the community that it will reimburse those consumers who have been affected by the recent exploit that resulted in losses of up to $62 million. Such an announcement is considerably optimistic for the impacted clients.
Curve Finance Announces Reimbursement of the Users Impacted by the $62 Million Exploit
The company took to its official X account to disclose its intention of reimbursing the users. The firm also revealed that it is presently carrying out investigations regarding the respective exploit. These investigations are making considerable progress as nearly seventy-nine percent of the funds have been effectively redeemed by the platform.
In addition to this, the company also pointed out that it would evaluate each of the affected consumers to complete the procedure of reimbursement. The respective evaluation targets to guarantee unbiased dissemination of the funds among the consumers. The event of the exploit took place on the 30th of July this year.
Quick post-hack update.
— Curve Finance (@CurveFinance) August 11, 2023
While 70% of funds affected by the hack last week are recovered, active investigation with regards to the rest is underway.
In the meantime, we are also working on measuring the respective shares of each affected user with the goal of proper distribution
Experts Say the Exploit Required Comprehensive Skill and Huge Resources for Its Execution
In that incident, malicious actors remained effective in manipulating the vulnerabilities existing within the Curve Finance-based Vyper compiler’s release history. The individual at the back of the exploit focused on the Vyper compiler’s versions ranging between 0.2.15 and 0.3.0 in the exploit.
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The detection of the vulnerabilities required a comprehensive skill and huge resources, as the field experts brought to the front. A few were of the view that the exploit was not executed randomly rather it had been potentially planned for several weeks ahead of its occurrence. pETH/ETH, msETH/ETH, alETH/ETH, and CRV/ETH were among the pools that were exploited. The attack created a ripple effect across the whole ecosystem of decentralized finance (DeFi).
