DeFi Platform Ostium Loses $18M in Apparent Vault Exploit

DeFi trading platform Ostium paused all trading after an apparent exploit drained roughly $18 million from its vault. On-chain data shows the attacker converted the stolen USDC into ETH and dispersed the funds across multiple wallets to obscure the trail. Ostium announced the trading halt shortly after the exploit was detected.

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