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Odaily Report: Marc Zeller, founder of the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI), posted on X stating that the Aave protocol is fine.The Binance hacker injected 60 million USDT into the protocol within just 3 minutes and borrowed 19,762 wETH (approximately $44.9 million), at which point Tether had not yet frozen the address, nor had the Aave Guardian frozen the Aave V3 Core pool's reserves (this operation occurred 46 minutes later).However, USDT is backed by real dollars, and from the protocol's perspective, although this position is the proceeds of crime, it is overcollateralized — with a health factor of 1.04, holding $59.9 million in collateral against $44.9 million in debt.Of course, the protocol now has a large borrower with little incentive to repay the loan, but the liquidation mechanism will still operate as usual. If the ETH price rises above approximately $2,365 (+4%), the position will be liquidated just like any other position.Currently, the Aave V3 Core pool's total wETH reserves stand at 2.16 million wETH, and the hacker's debt accounts for "only" 0.9% of that, so Aave does not need to take any special action against the hacker. There are currently 345,000 wETH available (capital utilization rate of 81.6%), so if wETH depositors wish to withdraw, liquidity is fully sufficient. There is no reason or need for a bank run to occur.This situation is far less alarming than the Kelp hacker incident (which involved zero-value collateral). In theory, a governance proposal could be passed to force liquidation of the hacker by upgrading the pool (if the USDT liquidation threshold were lowered, it would affect all USDT depositors), but there is no practical benefit to doing so, as the normal liquidation mechanism can easily absorb this debt.
Odaily News – A Hyperliquid user's account was compromised through unauthorized access, with approximately 738,600 USDC transferred out and an additional 10,287 HYPE unstaked. The affected account is identified by a specific address, with some of the stolen funds flowing to an address suspected to be associated with Bitget. As of the time of verification, the 10,287 HYPE remained in the staking balance and had not yet entered the withdrawal queue. If the attacker proceeds to initiate cWithdraw, the affected assets would be further transferred after a 7-day waiting period. In two similar recent cases, staked assets were stolen a second time due to the lack of a user-triggerable emergency pause mechanism, resulting in losses exceeding $1.1 million. Relevant recommendations include introducing a Guardian or Recovery mechanism that users can pre-enable, which would only temporarily pause withdrawals, transfers, and authorization changes. The pause would expire automatically, and restoration would require a time lock and evidence review, with all actions recorded on-chain.
According to an announcement released by Qubic's official X account (@Qubic), a security incident occurred within the Qubic GitHub organization on July 13, where a compromised account accessed repositories and extracted sensitive information. Officials have intervened to handle the situation. Officials recommend the following users take immediate action: • Network Guardians: Rotate seeds immediately • Web wallet users: If you unlocked your wallet between 03:00–10:00 UTC on that day, please migrate to a new identity; if unsure about the last unlock time, migration is also recommended • Developers: Pause pulling or deploying code from Qubic repositories until officials confirm the audit is complete Officials stated that full details and subsequent updates will be published on the official Discord channel, reminding users not to trust information from unofficial channels, and warning that no one shall request user seeds for any reason. The incident post-incident report will be released after handling is complete.
Blockaid disclosed on X that the Alephium TokenBridge Ethereum cross-chain bridge was attacked. The attacker compromised three out of four Guardian private keys, forged a Verified Action Approval (VAA) message, and executed the attack within approximately seven minutes, stealing roughly $815,000 worth of assets. During the attack, the attacker minted 13.76 million Wrapped ALPH tokens out of thin air—exceeding the pre-attack circulating supply by over 100%—and simultaneously unlocked and withdrew assets including USDT, USDC, WBTC, and WETH from the custody pool. As of now, the attacker’s address still holds approximately $815,000 in stolen assets and 13.76 million uncollateralized Wrapped ALPH tokens; the largest anomalous transaction involved the out-of-thin-air minting of 13.76 million Wrapped ALPH tokens.
following the Kelp security incident, Tether's asset interoperability protocol USDT0 has disclosed details of its protocol security architecture. It stated that the system currently utilizes a proprietary DVN (Decentralized Verification Network) with message veto authority, and requires 3 independent validators, operating on different codebases, to reach a 3/3 consensus before cross-chain messages can be settled. The current verification nodes include the USDT0 proprietary DVN, LayerZero, and Canary, with future plans to expand to 4/4 and 5/5 verification mechanisms.USDT0 also stated that all multi-signature transactions must undergo multiple reviews by internal teams, external security teams, and auditing firms before signatures are submitted. The relevant contracts have been audited by firms such as Guardian and OpenZeppelin, and a $6 million bug bounty program has been launched on Immunefi.
Aave stated that, per the previously disclosed technical recovery plan, the attacker’s rsETH positions on Ethereum and Arbitrum have been liquidated on Aave, and the associated collateral assets have now been transferred to the Recovery Guardian address designated by the AIP. Aave noted that this action did not impact other users, nor did it affect the Umbrella mechanism, and emphasized that this step is a critical milestone in the overall recovery roadmap, with further recovery efforts continuing as planned.
Aave has announced the completion of the liquidation of the remaining rsETH position belonging to the Kelp DAO attacker. The related collateral assets will be transferred to the Recovery Guardian multi-signature wallet managed by DeFi United, to be used for restoring rsETH reserves and compensating affected users.This liquidation is part of the recovery plan following the previous $292 million attack incident. Aave had previously passed a governance vote to temporarily adjust the rsETH oracle price in order to create bad debt in the attacker's position and trigger liquidation. The relevant parameters will be restored upon completion of the liquidation. Previously, the attacker exploited the Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge based on LayerZero to forge 116,500 unbacked rsETH and borrowed ETH from protocols such as Aave and Compound. Currently, the recovery funds managed by DeFi United have exceeded $320 million.