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<p>Linear Finance, the Hong Kong-based DeFi protocol, made an<a href="https://medium.com/linear-finance/%E2%84%93usd-exploit-283f2d32a2f3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> announcement</a> by way of a blog post published to the project’s website on Thursday, suggesting that the project’s native stablecoin, LUSD, has come under attack.</p><h2 id="header-0">Taking precautionary action</h2><p>This security breach has prompted the team to take immediate action to safeguard user accounts and the project’s integrity. The project team is actively investigating the exploit attack on LUSD. It has issued a stern warning to its users, advising them against buying or trading LUSD until the team can confirm the situation’s status.</p><p>This measure is aimed at preventing further complications and ensuring the community’s interests remain protected. Furthermore, the project has temporarily suspended liquidations to secure users’ accounts. This step has been taken to mitigate immediate concerns and ensure that no user faces undue losses as a result of the exploit.</p><h2 id="header-1">Assets disposed on PancakeSwap &amp; Ascendex</h2><p>Amid the ongoing investigation, Linear Finance’s team has pledged to provide timely updates as soon as more information becomes available. In explaining away the nature of the attack, the project team clarified:</p><p>”The attacker was able to mint an unlimited supply of LAAVE and subsequently traded the liquid asset to LUSD on the Linear Exchange, prior to selling it on PancakeSwap and Ascendex.”</p><h2 id="header-2">Project response</h2><p>In its efforts to deal with the issue, the Linear Finance project team has engaged an on-chain data specialist to track down the attackers. The Linear bridge contract has been disabled relative to LUSD. All protocol contracts that allow tokens to be minted, exchanged, or burnt have been paused. Meanwhile, wallets identified as having been involved in the protocol exploit have been shared with the authorities and major cryptocurrency exchanges.</p><h2 id="header-3">Synthetic asset protocol</h2><p>Linear Finance creates synthetic assets with the protocol design enabling unlimited liquidity. The network has been built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. As a consequence of activity surrounding the exploit, trading of LUSD over the course of the past 24 hours has proven to be out of the ordinary. At the time of writing volume over the past 24-hour period had increased by 8412%. The current market price of the stablecoin stands at $0.9874.</p><p>Protocol and network hacks and exploits have been coming in thick and fast in recent days. Hong Kong crypto exchange CoinEx has been trying to<a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/coinex-reveals-insights-into-recent-platform-hack-270ee8d2683b" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> recover</a> from a $70 million hack on the platform over recent days. Meanwhile, Seychelles-headquartered peer-to-peer crypto platform Remitano suffered a<a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/remitano-struck-by-2-7m-alleged-hack-a2ea1fe376f" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> $2.7 million hack</a> late last week.</p><p>On Wednesday, the project team behind DeFi protocol Balancer<a href="https://twitter.com/Balancer/status/1704281611326357567" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> warned</a> network users that the Balancer front-end user interface was under attack. The Ethereum-based DeFi network fell victim to another exploit last month, resulting in losses in the region of $900,000.</p><p>In the dynamic crypto sector, unforeseen events like potential exploits can disrupt the market and sow uncertainty. The issue remains a major challenge both for centralized exchange platforms and DeFi protocols.</p>

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