Cronos Halts Blockchain After $75 Million Exploit on Tectonic Lending Protocol
An attacker manipulated Tectonic's thinly traded TONIC token to borrow liquid assets, prompting Cronos validators to pause the network and leaving most funds stranded.
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Cronos suspended its blockchain after an attacker exploited Tectonic, described as its largest lending protocol, in an incident estimated to have affected roughly $75 million in assets, according to reporting from BitKE and CoinDesk.
The attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's thinly traded TONIC token by close to 100-fold in about 20 minutes, per BitKE. The inflated tokens were then used as collateral to borrow more liquid assets from the protocol.
Before the attack, Tectonic held about $121.7 million in total value locked, with roughly $82.7 million in active loans, BitKE reported. Its total value locked afterward fell to around $3 million.
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