🧵 1. A coding vulnerability in Curve Finance liquidity pools led to a $100M risk. Exploited pools included aETH/ETH, msETH/ETH, pETH/ETH, and CRV/ETH. #crypto
🧵 1. A coding vulnerability in Curve Finance liquidity pools led to a $100M risk. Exploited pools included aETH/ETH, msETH/ETH, pETH/ETH, and CRV/ETH. #crypto
🧵 2. Good news: A centralized exchange (CEX) price feed saved Curve Finance's native token from collapsing. CRV's price on DEX dropped to $0.086, while it traded at $0.60 on CEX.
🧵 3. Chainlink's oracle system, used by Curve pools, integrates CEX price feeds. Without this, Curve would have collapsed completely.
🧵 4. The Vyper vulnerability exploited in Curve Finance may have been a state-sponsored attack, suggests a program contributor. Importance of code upgrades highlighted.
🧵 Read more at: https://cointelegraph.com/news/cex-price-feed-curve-price-collapse-100m-vulnerability