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Platypus Finance Creates Compensation Portal for Users Following $9.1M Exploit

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Platypus Finance has created a portal that enables users to view how much the platform owes them following the recent $9.1 million exploit that the platform suffered.

On Feb. 16, the DeFi protocol suffered a flash loan attack, pushing the Platypus USD stablecoin to break its peg with the U.S. dollar. At the time, Platypus confirmed a loss of around $8.5 million from its main pool. The firm also said that they have contacted the hacker to negotiate a bounty. A post-mortem report from Platypus auditor Omniscia said that the attack was possible because of code that was in the wrong order.

Following the hack, the team worked on a compensation plan for users' funds. On Feb. 23, the team announced that they are seeking to return around 78% of the main pool funds by reminting frozen stablecoins. By then, the team also confirmed that apart from the $8.5 million loss, a second and a third incident led to another $667,000 in losses, making the total losses around $9.1 million.

According to the latest update from the protocol, they launched a page that lets viewers check how much compensation they can get from the platform. the page contains several sections that allow users to better understand how much they are owed after the exploit. This includes an overview, a pre-attack net value and post-attack adjustments.

(By EZRA REGUERRA)

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