🔍 🔴😞 Market Analysis — 5-11-0

The crypto market is entering November battered and bruised, with sentiment unraveling further after a fresh exploit drained over $110 million from the Balancer protocol. This chilling security breach casts a long shadow over DeFi’s reputation just as traders, spooked by last week’s ETF outfl... ... Read full 🔴😞 Market Analysis — 5-11-0

Attacker takes over multisig minutes after creation, drains up to $40M slowly

Attacker takes over multisig minutes after creation, drains up to $40M slowly

A crypto attacker apparently took over a whale’s multisig wallet minutes after it was created 44 days ago, and has been draining and laundering funds in stages since.In a Thursday post on X, blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that a whale’s multisig wallet had been drained of roughly $27.3…

Balancer community proposes plan to distribute funds recovered from hack

Balancer community proposes plan to distribute funds recovered from hack

Two members of the Balancer protocol community submitted a proposal on Thursday outlining a distribution plan for a portion of the funds recovered from the protocol’s $116 million November exploit.About $28 million from the $116 million heist was recovered by white hat hackers, internal rescuers, an…

Bitcoin Falls on Reduced U.S. Rate Cut Bets, Balancer Hack — Market Talk

Bitcoin Falls on Reduced U.S. Rate Cut Bets, Balancer Hack — Market Talk

Bitcoin falls to a two-and-a-half-week low as reduced expectations for further U.S. interest rate cuts prompt investors to pull back from riskier assets, Deus X Pay director of trading James Madden says in a note. The repricing of rate expectations comes after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said another ra…

DeFi protocol Balancer potentially exploited as onchain data shows millions in outflows

DeFi protocol Balancer potentially exploited as onchain data shows millions in outflows

DeFi protocol Balancer appears to have suffered an exploit, with roughly $88 million in assets drained from its vaults, according to security firm PeckShield.Etherscan transaction logs show large, unusual transfers from Balancer’s “0xBA1...BF2C8” address to an external wallet. The outflows included …