Cetus Protocol, a Sui-native decentralized exchange that suffered a huge $220 million exploit in May, says it is now working on going open-source following its recent relaunch.
An attacker exploited a pricing mechanism flaw to data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/how-220m-was-stolen-in-minutes-understanding-the-cetus-dex-exploit-on-sui” title=”null”>drain tokens from Cetus’ major liquidity pools on May 22. The protocol data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/news/sui-validators-freeze-majority-stolen-funds-220m-cetus-hack” title=”null”> managed to freeze $162 million of the stolen funds shortly after.
Trade volume on Cetus had been data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://defillama.com/dexs/cetus” title=”null”>trending upward before the attack, registering over $5 billion in April and another $5 billion in May, despite shutting down after May 22.

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