Blockchain safety agency PeckShield says that dangerous actors stole tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} from the decentralized perpetuals alternate GMX (GMX).
Posting on the social media platform X, PeckShield says {that a} hacker has exploited the crypto alternate to the tune of $42 million, sending $9 million of the stolen funds to the Ethereum (ETH) community from Arbitrum (ARB).
“GMX has been exploited for ~$42 million. The exploiter has bridged ~$9.6 million value of cryptos to Ethereum.”
GMX confirmed the hack by itself X account, saying that its Arbitrum-based liquidity pool was drained of $40 million, which was instantly despatched to an unknown pockets.
“The GLP pool of GMX V1 on Arbitrum has skilled an exploit. Roughly $40 million in tokens has been transferred from the GLP pool to an unknown pockets…
Buying and selling on GMX V1, and the minting and redeeming of GLP, have been disabled on each Arbitrum and Avalanche to forestall any additional assault vectors and defend customers from extra unfavorable impacts.”
GMX says that the matter continues to be beneath investigation however that the hack’s influence was restricted to GMX V1. GMX V2, its markets and liquidity swimming pools, in addition to the GMX token itself, are reportedly uncompromised.
The value of GMX dipped from its weekly excessive of $14.44 earlier in the present day all the way down to $10.77 at time of writing, a lower of over 22% over the past 24 hours.
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