Curve Bounces Back, Recouping 73% of Stolen Funds

Curve protocol recovers 73% of the funds lost following the July 30 reentrancy vulnerability exploit.

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  • Curve Finance recouped 73% of stolen funds in the recent exploit. 
  • $18 million of the stolen funds is still unaccounted for. 
  • White hat hackers were instrumental in the recovery efforts.ย 

A recent development in Curveโ€™s reentrancy vulnerability exploit, which saw over $70 million in digital assets stolen from the protocol, has stirred hope that the funds will eventually be recovered. The decentralized exchange has reported recouping 73% of the stolen funds from various parties.ย 

Voluntary Return of Funds

After monitoring notes of the hacker of AlchemixFi, PeckShieldAlert disclosed that the $22 million stolen from the lending protocol had been returned, including 7,258 ETH and 4,821 altH. Alchemixโ€™s Operation White Hat has also recovered a further $13 million.

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As part of the effort, an ethical hacker going by the pseudonym โ€œc0ffeebabe.ethโ€ was able to retrieve $7 million of the stolen funds, $1.6 million in synthetic protocol Metronome, and $5.3 million in Curve trading pool. In the spirit of the voluntary return and following a grace period for the same, the Jpegd frontrunner relinquished $11.5 million, equating to 90% of the originally stolen funds or 5,495.4 WETH.

Curve initially gave the hacker until August 6th to return 90% of the stolen funds; however, the deadline elapsed with more than $18 million unaccounted for. While itโ€™s uncertain whether voluntary returns will keep coming in the next few days, the protocol maintains that it wonโ€™t pursue the matter further if the hacker returns the remaining funds in full.ย 

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