QiDAO halts its bridge after struggling a $13 million exploit

• The hack on Polygon stablecoin QiDao comes barely a day after Polygon Community accomplished a $450 million personal token sale
• QiDao protocol shared an replace, confirming that person funds on QiDao contracts are protected

Mai Finance creator QiDao has been exploited to a tune of $13 million. The Polygon’s native stablecoin protocol shared a Twitter post just a few hours in the past revealing that its Superfluid vesting contract had been compromised.

“Superfluid’s vesting contract for QI has been exploited. Consumer funds on QiDao contracts stay protected. The exploit is solely on Superfluid. We’ll launch an replace once we know extra,” QiDao wrote.

The group despatched a fast replace by way of a follow-up post detailing that the state of affairs was nonetheless underneath evaluation. The replace additionally specified that no person funds had been affected and that Qi bridging had been suspended in the interim.

“We’re nonetheless assessing the state of affairs. We will verify that each one funds in QiDao are protected. No person funds have been affected. We’re conscious there are different tokens affected. We’ll replace the neighborhood once we be taught extra. Qi bridging is briefly paused.”

QI token value dips

Though the information of the exploit hadn’t made headlines on many crypto information retailers on the time, it left an enormous dent out there worth of the governance token QI. The value of QI plunged from $1.238 proper earlier than the exploit was reported to $0.166 in lower than two hours because the perpetrator(s) dumped the tokens on Quickswap.

Superfluid, which describes itself as a ‘DeFi primitive to automate recurring transactions and monetise Web3’, is a brilliant contract framework that operates on Ethereum.

The Superfluid Twitter group acknowledged the exploit on QiDAO and warned customers to “keep away from interactions with Superfluid sensible contracts till additional discover.” The group additionally requested customers to unwrap their SuperTokens as they may very well be focused by the malicious actor(s).

The attacker(s) stole an estimated $13 million price of tokens, most likely from the group vested token pool since person funds weren’t affected. CoinTelegraph studies that these tokens embrace 1.5 million MOCA, 562,000 USDC, 40,000 sdam3CRV, 23,000 STACK, 44 SDT, and 24 WETH.

Price noting, the exploit comes lower than two months since Superfluid launched MAIx, permitting customers to stream MAI (miMatic). Beforehand QiDao leveraged Superfluid to stream QI tokens to contributors on Polygon.