DeFi Protocol Ankr Suffers Infinity Minting Exploit – Here’s What Happened
Decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure provider Ankr has been exploited to the tune of over $5 million due to a bug that allowed for unlimited minting of its token. In a tweet today, the team said that their aBNBc t...
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In a tweet today, the team said that their aBNBc token had been exploited. They also asked exchanges to halt trading and asked liquidity providers to remove liquidity from decentralized exchanges (DEXs)....
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