Ronin is an Ethereum-linked sidechain created by Axie Infinity creator Sky Mavis, has confirmed a major security breach in an article on the blog.Â
The project lost approximately $65 million (173,600 Ethereum tokens and 25.5 million USDC tokens) after Sky Mavis's Ronin validator nodes, as well as Axie DAO validater nodes were hacked and draining by a malicious user last week.Â
This could be one of the biggest decentralized finance hack in history surpassing that $611 Poly Network theft that occurred last August.The Ronin hacker was able to make fake transactions with the aid of stolen private keys.
Although Poly Network managed to retrieve almost all the stolen funds However, it remains ascertained what Ronin will react to the infamous hacking attack. The address that was associated with the attacker remains in control of the vast majority of the stolen crypto.
Developers behind the Ronin network have already started working with law enforcement officials as well as blockchain sleuths to track down the hacker behind what appears to be the largest DeFi heist ever.
The price of Ronin (RON) governance token Ronin (RON) government token fallen by more than 30% because of hacking according to information provided to CoinMarketCap. CoinMarketCap.
Ronin was created in February to reduce the cost of gasoline costs and facilitate transactions faster. In January the Sky Mavis team introduced the RON token.
According to the data supplied by the blockchain-based sleuth Elliptic, the person this post responsible for the catastrophic Ronin bridge hack has already started laundering proceeds.
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