Multichain inside job? And SOL surges 80% in a month: Finance Redefined
The exploited Multichain bridge briefly opened on Nov. 1, and a trader managed to use this opportunity to buy debugged assets at a discount, allowing them to make more than $1.5 million in profits. Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. A trader managed to exploit the brief opening of the Multichain cross-chain bridge, which was frozen since its exploit in July 2023, allowing the trader to turn $280,000 worth of Fantom’s (FTM) tokens into $1.9 million worth of different assets. In other news, Solana’s (SOL) token has surged 80% in a month , and Avalanche is set to shut down its Etherscan-powered block chain explorer tool amid a fee controversy. A new bridged token from LayerZero has drawn criticism from nine protocols throughout the Ethereum ecosystem, claiming that it limits the freedom of token issuers. The top 100 DeFi tokens continue...