ALEX Protocol, a Stacks-based DeFi platform, was exploited due to a flaw in its token listing validation logic, resulting in a loss of approximately $8.37 million. The losses included 8.4 million STX, 21.85 sBTC, about $150,000 in stablecoins, and 2.8 WBTC. Following the exploit, the ALEX token dropped 45%.
The incident was limited to the application layer and did not affect the security of the Stacks chain, sBTC protocol, or sBTC funds. The Stacks team temporarily disabled sBTC to help constrain the attacker's activities.
The ALEX Lab Foundation has pledged to fully reimburse affected users in USDC, with compensation based on average on-chain rates. Developers are working to isolate the attacker's movements and recover lost funds.
Separately, Cetus Protocol, which suffered a $220 million exploit on May 22, will relaunch on June 8, 2025, at 3:00 UTC. The project is replenishing liquidity pools using treasury funds and a loan from the Sui Foundation to restore full functionality.
CETUS TO RELAUNCH JUNE 8, 2025, WITH TREASURY + SUI FOUNDATION LOAN TO REPLENISH LIQUIDITY
The DeFi protocol will restart operations this weekend using reserve capital and support from the Sui Foundation.
Liquidity restoration marks a key milestone following recent disruptions
💥NEW: Cetus is set to relaunch on June 8, 2025, at 3:00 UTC
The project has allocated a substantial part of its treasury and a Sui Foundation loan to replenish affected liquidity pools
Cetus Protocol will relaunch at 3:00 UTC on June 8, 2025, with full functionality restored. To replenish liquidity, the team recovered assets via an on-chain vote and rebalanced them, committed $7 million from its treasury to repurchase missing tokens, and secured a 30 million
Yesterday I posted about sBTC being down 50%. Which was theoretically true due to the imbalanced price pools of @ALEXLabBTC which suffered from yet another hack and the APIs indexing their price.
sBTC holders SAFU. sBTC continues to be backed 1:1. I wish getting BTC half price
CETUS TO RELAUNCH JUNE 8, 2025, WITH TREASURY + SUI FOUNDATION LOAN TO REPLENISH LIQUIDITY
The DeFi protocol will restart operations this weekend using reserve capital and support from the Sui Foundation.
Liquidity restoration marks a key milestone following recent disruptions
Yesterday I posted about sBTC being down 50%. Which was theoretically true due to the imbalanced price pools of @ALEXLabBTC which suffered from yet another hack and the APIs indexing their price.
sBTC holders SAFU. sBTC continues to be backed 1:1. I wish getting BTC half price
💥NEW: Cetus is set to relaunch on June 8, 2025, at 3:00 UTC
The project has allocated a substantial part of its treasury and a Sui Foundation loan to replenish affected liquidity pools