Sui Community Launches Vote on Recovering $162,000,000 in Stolen Crypto From Hacker

Sui Community Launches Vote on Recovering $162,000,000 in Stolen Crypto From Hacker


The Sui (SUI) community appears poised to greenlight a recovery plan to return $162 million worth of crypto stolen from the decentralized exchange Cetus Protocol last week.

Last week, a hacker hit Cetus with a sophisticated smart contract exploit targeting the decentralized exchange’s (DEX) concentrated liquidity market maker (CLMM) pools, purloining approximately $223 million worth of assets from the platform.

The DEX quickly froze $162 million worth of the stolen assets. Now, the Sui community is currently voting on a proposal that enables a special transaction to return those frozen assets from two attacker addresses back to Cetus.

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If passed, the vote would approve a one-time authentication of two special transactions hard-coded with the two attacker addresses, stolen asset objects, and their destination.

The votes

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