Decentralized finance protocol Year.Finance is expecting arbitrage traders to return $1.4 million of their funds after a multisignature scripting error resulted in the drain of a large amount of the protocol’s treasury.
“A faulty multisig script caused Yarn’s entire treasury balance of 3,794,894 LP-YCRV2 tokens to be swapped out,” According On a Dec 11 GitHub post by Yarn contributor “dudesahn”.
The error occurred when Yarn was converting its yVault LP-yCurve (lp-yCRVv2) – earned from performance fees on Vault Harvest – into stable coins on the decentralized exchange Cowswap.
$1.4M wiped out
Yarn Finance said their treasury funds lost approximately $1.4M due to faulty scripts
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Eire suffered a significant drawdown when it received 779,958 DAI YVault (YVDAI) tokens from a trade, resulting in a 63% drop in liquidity pool value from its treasury – relative to the spot price of LP-YCRVV2 at that time.
sad Confirmed A note to The Block figures at $1.4 million.
However, Dudeson said the affected tokens were “strictly protocol-owned liquidity” in Yarn’s treasury and client funds were not affected.
Given how “critical” these tokens are to YCRV liquidity for the year, the firm has asked any successful ARB traders who benefited from this event to consider sending some funds back:
“We are asking anyone who profitably made this mistake to refund the amount they feel is appropriate to Yarn’s main multisig.”
Yarn took its recovery efforts a step further by writing on-chain messages to some traders.
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An arbitrageur has already transferred 2 Ether (ETH), Value $4,500, returned to Yarn’s treasury address, According To Etherscan. “Sad to hear this guys, it happens to the best of us. Not as big a gain as some others, and we took some risk and helped the peg, but here’s something to come back anyway,” he added in an on-chain message.
To prevent similar mistakes in the future, Yorn said it will separate protocol-owned liquidity into specific manager contracts, enforce human-readable output messages and enforce strict price impact limits.
iran became a victim of one Exploited $11.6 million On April 11, the hacker managed to create a quadrillion Yarn Tether (yUSDT) tokens and trade it for other stablecoins.
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