Did Celsius Network Lose $51M in BadgerDAO’s Hack?
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Did Celsius Network Lose $51M in BadgerDAO’s Hack?

THELOGICALINDIAN - The investigations into the drudge are still ongoing

Several BadgerDAO users suffered cogent losses back the protocol’s frontend was afraid yesterday—and on-chain abstracts suggests that Celsius Network could accept absent an eight-figure sum. 

The BadgerDAO Hack’s Biggest Victim 

Celsius Network may accept been the better also-ran in the contempo BadgerDAO hack. 

The DeFi agreement BadgerDAO, which specializes in alms crop opportunities on Wrapped Bitcoin, suffered a above hack Thursday afterwards an antagonist exploited the app’s frontend website. While the analysis is still ongoing, the antagonist is anticipation to accept added a calligraphy to the frontend that tricked users into acceptance the antagonist to cesspool assets from their wallets. Over $120 actor was drained. 

The biggest transaction saw the antagonist cesspool 896.8 Wrapped Bitcoin account aloof over $51 actor from an abode basic “0x534.” On-chain abstracts suggests that the victim could be carefully affiliated to Celsius Network, a CeFi app acceptance users to acquire absorption on their cryptocurrencies.  

The transaction history for the “0x534” abode shows assorted seven-figure transactions. On Wednesday, for example, the abode sent over $2.2 million account of ConvexCRV to an abode basic “0x5fa.” 

It additionally transferred 125 ETH account $575,000 to an abode basic “0xdb3” Tuesday. The “0xdb3” wallet currently holds aloof beneath $68 million, of which $41.2 actor is in Celsius’ CEL token. It’s additionally had multiple seven-figure transactions with one of Celsius’ capital wallets, which commences “0x4f6” and is labeled as “Celsius Network: Wallet 5” on Etherscan. 

Transaction history also shows “Celsius Network: Wallet 5” interacting with a wallet basic “0xef2.” This wallet currently holds $46.7 actor in Ethereum, Wrapped Bitcoin, and added assets, and has interacted with the aforementioned wallet that accustomed $2.2 actor account of ConvexCRV from “0x534” this week.

A Twitter user activity by the name BigTimeCali aggregate several of the notable affairs in a Thursday cheep storm, advertisement that Celsius Network had additionally deleted questions accompanying to the adventure from its Reddit page. 

Although the on-chain abstracts isn’t conclusive, it shows that the “0x534” wallet had several interactions with wallets carefully affiliated to Celsius Network. The aerial amount of the affairs additionally suggests that the wallet holder is a beyond amateur in the space. 

Neither Celsius Network nor the company’s architect and CEO Alex Mashinsky anon responded to Crypto Briefing’s appeal for comment. 

This adventure is developing and will be adapted as added capacity emerge.

Update 12/03/21 2:16 PM EST: Alex Mashinksy confirmed today in a live stream that Celsius did absolutely lose funds through the BadgerDAO hack. However, he additionally said that while Celsius itself absent money, Celsius associates themselves did not. Mashinksky went on to say that Celsius was allied with BadgerDAO in an accomplishment to balance the absent funds.

The analysis is ongoing.

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ATOM, ETH, and several added cryptocurrencies.