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Hacker Steals $6.9 Million From Arbitrum-Based Defi Protocol Lodestar Finance

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Hacker Steals $6.9 Million From Arbitrum-Based Defi Protocol Lodestar Finance


Arbitrum-based lending platform Lodestar Finance was exploited on Dec. 10, 2022, according to a tweet from the project’s Twitter account on Saturday. Community reports detail that Lodestar lost roughly $6.9 million from the vulnerability. Lodestar Finance Loses $6.9 Million in an Exploit, TVL Drained, LODE Drops by 53%


Another decentralized finance (defi) platform, Lodestar Finance was hacked for $6.9 million in an exploit, a number of reports detail. “[The] protocol was exploited and deposits have been drained,” Lodestar’s official Twitter account said. “We have set all interest rates to 0 so that supply and borrow balances are not moving while we weigh recovery options.”


Lodestar says the hacker “manipulated the exchange rate of the plvGLP contract” and then “supplied plvGLP collateral to Lodestar and borrowed all available liquidity.” This allowed the exploiter to cash out “what they could.” However, a “collateralization ratio mechanism prevented them from fully cashing out the plvGLP,” the team noted on Saturday.


Via the team Discord channel, Lodestar team members explained that they had paused borrowing and liquidation activity. Data from defillama.com indicates that the total value locked (TVL) in Lodestar was drained from close to $7 million down to a mere $11.06. The project’s native cryptocurrency lodestar (LODE) has dropped 53% in value against the U.S. dollar in the last 24 hours.


LODE recently tapped an all-time high at $0.718 per unit, 18 days ago on Nov. 23, 2022. LODE’s value is now down 76.1% from that value and has seen a 24-hour price range of around $0.13 to $0.369 per unit. At press time, LODE is exchanging hands for $0.173 per coin. Tags in this story $6.9 Million, 53% down, Arbitrum, Arbitrum defi, Coins, crypto assets, decentralized finance, DeFi, defi vulnerability, Digital Assets, Drained, exploited, hacked, lending app, lending protocol, LODE, LODE price, LODE token, Lodestar, Lodestar Finance, Lodestar Finance team, plvGLP, Reports


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Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today. BNB Chain-Based Defi Protocol Ankr Suffers Major Exploit DEFI | Dec 2, 2022 Solana-Based Lending App Solend Gets Hacked for $1.26 Million in "Oracle Attack" DEFI | Nov 2, 2022


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