The DeFi protocol Balancer requested that liquidity providers quickly remove their liquidity from select pools because of a security concern.
The DOLA/bb-a-USD on Ethereum, It’s MAI Life and Feels Like Spartan Energy on Optimist, bb-am-USD/miMATIC on Paragon. Tenacious Dollar on Fantom was among the affected liquidity pools, according to a thread on Twitter from the DeFi protocol on January 6. Together, the digital assets in these pools are valued at $6.3 million.
IMPORTANT: Because of a related issue, LPs of the following pools should remove their liquidity ASAP as the issue cannot be mitigated by the emergency DAO.
IMPORTANT: Because of a related issue, LPs of the following pools should remove their liquidity ASAP as the issue cannot be mitigated by the emergency DAO. https://t.co/WcBeBvjdY2
— Balancer (@Balancer) January 6, 2023
Although Balancer declined to disclose the problem, he vowed to do so later. The emergency multisig, according to the DeFi platform, adjusted its protocol fees to zero to address the issue.
Due to Balancer’s failure to identify the issue, the cryptocurrency community has started speculating about possible causes. Any exploit might significantly impact the market because Balancer is the fourth-largest decentralized exchange.
The DeFi Protocol Balancer has previously faced the prospect of an exploit, so this is nothing new. In 2020, a hacker who took advantage of two liquidity pools cost Balancer $500,000 in losses.
The Function Of The Balancer’s BAL Price Is Unaffected
The potential for a protocol hack does not appear to impact Balancer’s native token, BAL. At the time of publication, BAL has risen 0.62% to $5.35, according to data from CoinMarketCap. However, its trading volume throughout that time decreased by about 7%.
According to Defillama data, the Balancer DEX had a trading volume of approximately $350 million in January, with $92.21 million in the last 24 hours alone. TVL for the protocol is $1.5 billion.
Multiple attacks against DeFi protocols were launched in 2022 by malicious players. According to sources, over $2 billion in cryptocurrency sector revenue was stolen by hackers in July. BeInCrypto used the bug bounty platform Immunefi’s data to confirm that the amount had increased to $3.9 billion.
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The lowest monthly amount of crypto theft was reported in December 2022, according to blockchain security company Certik. Only $62 million, according to the company, was stolen throughout the month. According to reports, the company forecasted that this year would bring more breaches and exploits.
