StakeWise

Million

Balancer

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 <li>StakeWise has retrieved $20.7M, or 73.5% of osETH and osGNO hit in the Balancer V2 exploit, via DAO emergency actions.</li>
 <li>The unrecovered 26.5% (~$7M) was converted to ETH too quickly to claw back; users will be repaid pro rata on recovered funds.</li>
 <li>Balancer, Gnosis and SEALs coordinated the response, while Balancer kept a 20% white-hat bounty open for remaining assets.</li>
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StakeWise has pulled off a rare recovery in the DeFi world, retrieving the majority of assets lost in the recent <a href="https://coinedition.com/attackers-steal-over-120m-from-balancer-in-one-of-2025s-largest-defi-hacks/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Balancer exploit</a> that rocked the ecosystem.
The liquid staking platform confirmed on Nov. 4 that its DAO emergency multisig successfully recovered 5,041 osETH (worth about $19 million) and 13,495 osGNO (approximately $1.7 million) from the hacker.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-20-7m-recovery-how-stakewise-got-73-5-back">The $20.7M Recovery: How StakeWise Got 73.5% Back</h2>
According to StakeWise, the recovered assets represent 73.5% of the 6,851 osETH drained duri…
Read The Full Article <a href="https://coinedition.com/stakewise-recovers-20-7-million-from-balancer-exploit-to-reimburse-users-pro-rata/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">StakeWise Recovers $20.7 Million From Balancer Exploit, To Reimburse Users Pro Rata</a> On <a href="https://coinedition.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Coin Edition</a>.

StakeWise Recovers $20.7 Million From Balancer Exploit, To Reimburse Users Pro Rata

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