Unchained

The Chopping Block: Who’s to Blame for the Curve Hack? - Ep. 526

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Welcome to “The Chopping Block” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, Laurence Day, smart-contract sleuth and co-founder of Wildcat Finance, joins the show to discuss the ramifications of the Curve Finance exploit that has the DeFi world talking.

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Show highlights:
  • how Curve Finance, one of the most prominent DeFi protocols, got hacked
  • why maintaining different coding languages and clients is so hard
  • whether developers are responsible for this kind of attack
  • whether Curve founder Michael Egorov’s loans in Aave and Fraxlend have put DeFi at risk
  • how the loan in Fraxlend impacted the liquidation price of the Aave loan
  • Tarun’s reaction to the situation, given that his firm Gauntlet has tried to mitigate these risks in the past
  • how people in the community worked together to keep DeFi safe and resilient
  • why Tarun got canceled on LinkedIn
  • what happened with the BALD meme coin mania on Base
    • Hosts
    • Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly
    • Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly
    • Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

      Guest:

      Laurence Day, co-founder of Wildcat Finance

      Disclosures

        

      Links
      • Unchained:
      • BALD Token Falls 90% Amid Rug Pull Allegations
      • $60 Million in ETH Bridged to Coinbase Layer 2 Base
      • Curve Founder’s Liquidation Could Trigger Chaos for DeFi
      • $52 Million Drained in Curve Finance Pools Exploit
      • Curve Exploit Results in Largest MEV Block Rewards in Ethereum’s History
      • CoinDesk:
      • Curve Founder Deploys New Liquidity Pool to Address FRAX Debt Situation
      • Spooked by Curve Liquidation Threat, DeFi Protocols Shore Up Defenses
      • Aave Should Block Curve Token Borrowing, Risk Management Firm Proposes
      • After the Curve Attack: What's Next for DeFi?


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