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🔥 Arbitrum Perp DEX AFX Trade Drained of $24M, Offers Hacker 30% to Return It.

Image: Shuttertock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief AFX Trade, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum, was drained of about $24 million in an exploit that hit a USDC bridge the protocol itself operates. The exchange said the breach was isolated to that bridge and the exact attack vector is still under investigation; on-chain trackers say the funds were swapped for 12,468 ETH. AFX has halted the bridge and publicly offered the attacker a dealreturn 70% of the funds and keep the rest as a white hat bounty. AFX Trade, a decentralized perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum that settles in the stablecoin USDC, was drained of $24.15 million on Wednesday in an exploit that hit a bridge the protocol operates, security firm Blockaid said.

In a tweet, AFX said the exact attack vector remains under investigation. The on-chain money trail shows that the attacker bridged the stolen USDC to Ethereum and swapped it for 12,468 ETH, now sitting in a single wallet, PeckShield said. AFX is aware of an incident involving the AFX-operated USDC custody bridge on Arbitrum.Upon detecting the incident, we immediately suspended bridge operations and initiated our incident response procedures. Our engineering and security teams are actively investigating the root Arbitrum moved fast to put distance between itself and the protocol.

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🔥 Another DeFi Exploit: Perp DEX Ostium Loses $18 Million in Oracle Attack.

Attackers used a compromised oracle signer key to submit falsified future-dated price reports. The exploit drained nearly one-third of the protocol's liquidity. Ostium lost roughly $18 million on Wednesday after attackers compromised an oracle signer key and manipulated the decentralized perpetuals exchange's price feed to generate fake trading profits, according to blockchain security firm Blockaid. In a post on X, Blockaid said the attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder and future-dated authorized oracle reports to create artificial trading profits, triggering the multi-million payout—in the form of the Circle-issued stablecoin USDC—from Ostium's liquidity vault.

“We are aware of the issue with the OLP vault,” Ostium wrote on X. The team is investigating.” Built on Arbitrum, Ostium offers perpetual futures tied to real-world assets including stocks, commodities, foreign exchange markets, and indices. It operates as a decentralized exchange, or DEX, meaning users largely stay in control of their funds and do not provide personally identifiable information. At the time of the attack, the protocol held about $63 million in total value locked, meaning the exploit drained close to one-third of its liquidity.

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Another DeFi Exploit: Perp DEX Ostium Loses $18 Million in Oracle A...

Hackers manipulated Ostium's price feed by compromising an oracle signer key, allowing them to drain roughly $18 million from the Arbitrum-based perpetuals exchange.

This development highlights how quickly the digital-asset landscape continues to evolve, with market participants weighing the potential impact on liquidity, sentiment, and adoption across the ecosystem.

Analysts note that shifts like this often ripple through the broader market as institutional and retail players reassess positioning. On-chain activity and capital flows tend to react fast to such headlines.

Whether this marks a lasting trend or a short-term move remains to be seen, but it underscores the growing intersection of technology, regulation, and finance shaping the crypto space today.

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