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- 09:23A Review of Balancer's Security Incidents Over the Years: $21 Million Lost Due to Flash Loans, Front-End Hijacking, and Cross-Protocol VulnerabilitiesChainCatcher reported that the DeFi protocol Balancer is currently under attack, with losses across multiple chains now exceeding $116.6 million. The attack on Balancer is still ongoing. According to on-chain AI analysis tool CoinBob, the historical security incidents of Balancer are as follows: · June 2020 Flash Loan Attack: Attackers exploited compatibility issues between deflationary tokens (STA/STONK) and Balancer smart contracts, repeatedly calling swapExactAmountIn to drain liquidity pools, ultimately profiting $523,600. · August 2023 V2 Pool Vulnerability: Balancer V2 pools suffered multiple flash loan attacks due to code vulnerabilities, resulting in total losses of $2.1 million. The team urgently paused affected pools and advised users to withdraw funds, but some funds that were not withdrawn in time were still exploited. · September 2023 Frontend Hijacking Attack: Hackers used BGP/DNS hijacking to control the Balancer frontend, tricking users into authorizing malicious contracts, causing $238,000 in losses. On-chain investigator ZachXBT traced the funds to address 0x645710Af050E26bB96e295bdfB75B4a878088d7E. · 2023 Euler Incident Impact: Due to a vulnerability in Euler Finance, Balancer's bbeUSD pool lost $11.9 million, accounting for 65% of the pool's TVL. The team implemented protective measures to restrict liquidity withdrawals. · 2024 Velocore Attack Connection: The Velocore vulnerability exploitation involved Balancer-style CPMM pools, resulting in $6.8 million in losses. Balancer's technical architecture was indirectly implicated due to cross-protocol integration.
- 09:23Spot Ethereum ETFs saw a net inflow of $15.97 million last week, with Grayscale ETH leading at a net inflow of $56.05 million.ChainCatcher News, according to SoSoValue data, during last week's trading days (Eastern Time, October 27 to October 31), the net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs for the week was $15.97 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest weekly net inflow last week was the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH, with a weekly net inflow of $56.05 million. The historical total net inflow of ETH has reached $1.54 billion. The second was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a weekly net inflow of $13.59 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $14.17 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest weekly net outflow last week was the Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE, with a weekly net outflow of $22.32 million. The historical total net outflow of ETHE has reached $4.72 billion. As of press time, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $26.02 billion, the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) has reached 5.58%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $14.37 billion.
- 09:11A whale awakens after 3 years of dormancy and urgently withdraws all $6.5 million from BalancerAccording to ChainCatcher, as monitored by Lookonchain, whale 0x0090 has awakened after 3 years of dormancy—immediately withdrawing all $6.5 million in funds from Balancer following the recent attack on Balancer. Previous reports indicated that the losses from the Balancer attack have risen to $116.6 million.