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Incident · SLOWMIST

Ref.Finance

Fix bug
Estimated loss
$3.20M
VERDICT —UNRATED
Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.
▰ METHOD
Undisclosed
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

The NEAR ecological decentralized exchange Ref.Finance team tweeted that at around 2 pm UTC on August 14th, the Ref team noticed the abnormal behavior of the REF-NEAR trading pair, and then discovered that the patch of the recently deployed contract An error, which has been exploited by multiple users, affected approximately 1 million REFs and 580,000 NEARs. Attack method (per SlowMist): Fix bug. Reported loss: $ 3,202,539.

Primary source
https://twitter.com/finance_ref/status/1426649258812448774
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Ref.Finance
bug_class
unknown
date_occurred
2021-08-15
loss_usd
$3,202,539
source_id
sm:ref-finance::2021-08-15
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