{"id":162117,"date":"2022-08-14T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=162117"},"modified":"2022-08-14T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T17:38:05","slug":"polkadot-stablecoin-depegs-following-1-2-billion-acala-network-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/altcoins\/polkadot-stablecoin-depegs-following-1-2-billion-acala-network-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"Polkadot Stablecoin Depegs Following $1.2 Billion Acala Network Exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-770x432.webp\" class=\"flipboard-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Polkadot Stablecoin Depegs Following $1.2 Billion Acala Network Exploit 13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-770x432.webp 770w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-1024x575.webp 1024w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-500x281.webp 500w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-269x151.webp 269w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit-746x419.webp 746w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Polkadot-Stablecoin-Depegs-Following-1.2-Billion-Acala-Network-Exploit.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" title=\"Polkadot Stablecoin Depegs Following $1.2 Billion Acala Network Exploit 19\" loading=\"lazy\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5731f8e418e3e4e7918a1fdd29b4a2b?s=50&amp;d=retro&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f5731f8e418e3e4e7918a1fdd29b4a2b?s=100&amp;d=retro&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-50 photo\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acala network, the defi protocol for Polkadot, has suffered a breach, and its stablecoin depegged from the dollar.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Acala Network&rsquo;s aUSD stablecoin currently sits below $1, dropping as low as 0.58 at one point.<\/li>\n<li>It is reported that hackers collected approximately $1.2 Billion $AUSD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polkadot&rsquo;s decentralized finance protocol Akala Network is in significant trouble as reports show that the hub suffered a breach today, causing its stablecoin to depeg from the dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Acala Network reported today via their official Twitter account that the team had noticed a configuration issue that affects the stablecoin AUSD.<\/p>\n<p>They passed an urgent vote to pause operations on Acala to investigate and mitigate the problem.<\/p>\n<p>We have noticed a configuration issue of the Honzon protocol which affects aUSD. We are passing an urgent vote to pause operations on Acala, while we investigate and mitigate the issue. We will report back as we return to normal network operation.<\/p>\n<p>Users quickly identified the attacker&rsquo;s wallet on Twitter. The wallet currently holds more than 1 billion $AUSD according to SubScan.<\/p>\n<p>Binance&rsquo;s CEO CZ quickly confirmed on his official Twitter account that the compromise occurred due to a bug in the iBTC\/AUSD pool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to CoinMarketCap, the stablecoin is currently 11.67% under $1, sitting at $0.88.6.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have identified the issue as a misconfiguration of the iBTC\/aUSD liquidity pool (which went live earlier today) that resulted in error mints of a significant amount of aUSD.&rdquo; Acala reported on their Twitter account today.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If you are a whitehat\/recipient of errorneously minted aUSD or swapped token from these aUSD that are not on Acala, please transfer them to addresses below :<\/p>\n<p>On Polkadot: 13YMK2eYoAvStnzReuxBjMrAvPXmmdsURwZvc62PrdXimbNy <\/p>\n<p>On Moonbeam: 0x7369626cd0070000000000000000000000000000 5&Prime;<\/p>\n<p>Acala Network also has paused most chain functions until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/polkadot-stablecoin-depegs-following-1-2-billion-acala-network-exploit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Acala network, the defi protocol for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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