Ostium halts trading after $18M vault exploit
An onchain attacker drained an estimated $18M from Ostium vaults before the protocol halted trading, the latest in a string of DeFi derivatives incidents testing offchain risk engines.
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An onchain attacker drained an estimated $18M from Ostium vaults before the protocol halted trading, the latest in a string of DeFi derivatives incidents testing offchain risk engines.
The attacker used Ostium's own Gelato-run price automation against it, forging future-dated oracle reads to extract an $18M USDC payout. It is the second major oracle hit in a week.
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