Balancer is currently suffering from a wildly fluctuating market due to continuous cyber-attacks. Recently, it was heavily exploited because of its load balancer market growth and increasing cloud adoption. However, the investment experts quickly turned their focus on the balancer cryptocurrency due to arousing interest in a securities class action investigation against it. The investigation is connected to the $128 million exploit, which was faced with negative reactions from the crypto communities globally due to its implications on DeFi Trust. Right after the exploit, there was an immediate inflow of outflows indicating potentially another attack.
The magnitude of the breach was devastating as over $100 million was drained from it in just approximately 30 minutes. This exploit led Berachain, a blockchain, to halt its network to conduct an 'emergency hard fork.' Interestingly, the root cause of the multi-chain DeFi exploit was a rounding error. However, there were recovery attempts, with proposals to distribute $8 million that the Balancer DAO had recovered from the exploit. An apparent exploit also saw $110 million in crypto moved to new wallets. Amid, the turmoil, Balancer still tried to maintain its marketing stands by launching new products such as the E900 Diagnostic Wheel Balancer. Also, attempts to fortify DeFi included insights from the exploit incident delivering security strategies for cryptocurrency startups. The partnership with Isovalent after its purchase, as well as Mobile-First application's acceleration by introducing QUIC protocol supporting the network load balancer, are among the positive strides made to combat this issue. Ultimately,
Balancer ended up proposing an $8 million reimbursement plan to the liquidity providers after the $128 million V2 exploit.
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