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by 3np 5y ago
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TL;DR: Beanstalk violated several commonly known best-practices and are now suffering the consequences. This kind of economic vulnerability can barely be called an attack - certainly does not clarify as a "hack" and it's several years since the community learned from bzx and similar almost identical incidents what happens when you make irreversible decisions based on on-chain price oracles like Curve (which is jot the fault of Curve - they should just not be used this way!)
Hopefully the FBI recognizes this. If anything, Beanstalk promoters are responsible for irresponsible marketing and shifting blame.
> The lightning hostile takeover raises fresh questions about the unregulated nature of digital currencies and the lack of protections for investors.
No it doesn't. It's quite clear that there weren't any protection mechanisms at all. The kind of investors who put funds into contracts that can have those funds transferred out at the whim of a threshold of governance votes that are tradable on the public market must be aware of these risks - in particular sine it's the umpteenth time that in principle identical scenarios have played out over several years now.
- cuteboy19 5y agoIf beanstalk was so egregiously bad why didn't everyone (or anyone) call them out on it before?
- 3np 5y agoAs for me; first time I hear of them.
- whomst 5y agoI've been running a SIGECOM chapter at UIUC and the main theme over the past four/five months is people meme-ing about Beanstalk and how its such a shit show. My original concern had to do with the stability lever only working to decrease the value, so it inherently requires a "distinct triangular shape" to keep itself running. I didn't take it seriously enough to do a deeper analysis (mostly because I'd find something like this, but I can't really do anything with it legally) but there's about $10k invested in the ecosystem as LPs/bond-owners within my group of friends.