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No room for compromise: marketplaces must do more to tackle stolen NFTs | Opinion

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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. The non-fungible token (NFT) space spares no one, not even those who call themselves NFT God. An experienced investor like Kevin Rose also got duped in early-2023, losing NFTs worth $1 million or more. Cracks like these betray the troubled state of NFT security across platforms. Over 13,650 NFTs have been stolen since mid-2021, amounting to over $29.5 million. Leading NFT market place s are adopting and implementing processes to mitigate thefts and scams, or at least minimize their impact, but with very limited scope. It mostly involves some compromise , either on the part of creators or victims.  You might also like: NFT theft decreased 20% in July: report There’s much debate around whether creators must compensate users who suffer NFT thefts. But one considerable aspect is that the stakes of swiping and flipping N...

Alchemix reports return of all stolen funds from Curve pools

The attacker started returning stolen funds after accepting nearly $7 million in bug bounty. Funds had been returned to Alchemix and JPEGd. Lending platform Alchemix has announced the return of all stolen funds by the Curve finance hacker. The attack took place on July 30 and resulted in over $61 million in cryptocurrencies drained, including $13.6 million from Alchemix’s alETH-ETH pool.  Along with Alchemix, JPEGd’s pETH-ETH pool saw outflows of $11.4 million, and Metronome’s sETH-ETH pool was drained in over $1.6 million. The hacker targeted stable pools on Curve Finance using vulnerable versions of the Vyper programming language through reentrancy attacks. We are extremely happy to announce that all funds stolen by the hacker of the Alchemix @CurveFinance pool have now been returned. Full post mortem coming. — Alchemix (@AlchemixFi) August 5, 2023 The return of funds started after the hacker accepted a bug bounty offer. Curve, Metronome and Alchemix jointly announced an initia...