Voltage Finance Suffers $4 Million Stablecoin Theft
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Voltage Finance Suffers $4 Million Stablecoin Theft

THELOGICALINDIAN - Various stablecoins and captivated tokens were baseborn from the DeFi belvedere today

Voltage Finance has suffered a reentrancy advance arch to the annexation of $4 actor in stablecoins and cryptocurrencies.

$4 Million Have Been Stolen

Another DeFi accomplishment has resulted in millions lost.

Voltage Finance announced the annexation on Twitter on Mar. 31. “We became acquainted of a aperture on the [Voltage Finance] lending platform… arch to the annexation of [$4 million],” it wrote.

Various stablecoins were stolen, including USDCoin (USDC) and Binance USD (BUSD). Wrapped Bitcoin and Ethereum tokens (WBTC and WETH) were additionally stolen. Fuse Dollar (FUSD) and its non-stablecoin analogue FUSE were baseborn as well.

Voltage assured users that all funds aural its aegis are safe, including staked tokens and tokens in clamminess pools. It added that its affairs accept been accountable to assorted audits.

The attacker’s abode has been flagged on Etherscan, and Voltage has alleged on the exchanges CEX and Circle to block affairs from that address. Voltage is now attempting to acquaintance the antagonist and accommodate a compensation for the acknowledgment of funds.

The belvedere added that it is alive with its lending-as-a-service accomplice Ola Finance to investigate the issue.

Official Report Still Pending

Ola Network said that it will anon broadcast an official address that capacity the exploit. In the meantime, it has accustomed a third-party address from the blockchain aegis close PeckShield.

Peckshield has stated that the drudge was due to a reentrancy bug that accustomed hackers to cesspool the lending pool. This vulnerability arose from an affair amid ERC-677/777 tokens (the base of best of the afflicted stablecoins) and forks of the Compound Network (something that Ola Network allows developers to create).

Related attacks occurred on Hundred Finance (a angle of Compound Finance) and Agave (a angle of Aave) about Mar. 15. About $11 actor in absolute was baseborn during those attacks.

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