Yesterday afternoon, the Latin American-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Tropykus Finance revealed that its platform had been hacked. The attacker stole 10% of the platform’s funds, which is equivalent to USD 150,000.
Through a release, the Tropykus team explained that a notification from a user, who warned about “unusual behavior on the platform”, activated an evaluation mechanism. As a result, the DeFi team discovered that a percentage of the funds had been stolen.
Subsequently, the protocol developers identified the two addresses used by the attacker: “these have been denounced to be reported as stolen funds and prevent these funds from being used on any other platform,” they maintain.
As a consequence of the hack, Tropykus warned that his page will be under maintenance and that it will be They took steps to “ensure that the funds are safe.”
We are already working on recovering the stolen funds. We are going to do everything we can to get them back as soon as possible, working with specialized firms in these investigations and making complaints to the relevant authorities, so that no one is affected.
Tropykus, DeFi of cryptocurrencies.
The Tropykus team invited the attacker to communicate with them and make use of the USD 50,000 bounty that anyone can claim if they find a vulnerability in the protocol. “If we do not do it by 23:59 on June 16 (GMT-5), we will proceed to file a criminal action before the authorities,” they explained in the statement. It was not specified which coins were stolen.
We cannot deny that despite being focused on solving the problem, we do not understand how these people, instead of joining our mission to build open financial services and help us make Tropykus better, even with the public reward, prefer to do harm.
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Tropykus Finance is a platform for loans that works on RSK, a Bitcoin sidechain, that emerged in 2021 and focuses on the Latin American market. Through this platform, its users can trade with RBTC, DOC, USDT, RIF and DAI. As CriptoNoticias reported last month, the protocol intends to scale by integrating with Polygon zkEVM: “to adapt the protocol to Latin Americans and not the other way around,” said Mauricio Tovar, co-founder and COO of the company.
