Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week.

The end of 2022 saw the least value of stolen funds from DeFi, with $62 million worth of exploits in December. While the figure might seem a relief given the multiple bridge hacks and hundreds of millions of dollars stolen this year, cybersecurity experts have warned that the ecosystem would see no decrease in exploits, flash loans or exit scams in 2023.

Lido protocol overtook MakerDAO to have the highest total value locked (TVL) in the DeFi ecosystem. In other news, Mango Markets hacker Avraham Eisenberg was detained pending trial.

The start of the new year saw a GMX whale hacked for $3.5 million worth of GMX tokens. The hackers took control of 82,519 GMX tokens, exchanged the assets for 2,627 Ether (ETH), and then transferred the assets to the Ethereum network using Hop Protocol and Across Protocol.

The top 100 DeFi tokens started the year on a bullish note, with most of the tokens trading in the green on the weekly charts.

Cryptocurrency hackers and exploiters seemingly slowed down for the 2022 holidays, with December seeing $62.2 million worth of cryptocurrencies stolen. It was the “lowest monthly figure” of the year, according to CertiK.

On Dec. 31, the blockchain security company tweeted a list of the month’s most significant attacks. It highlighted the $15.5 million worth of exit scams as the method that exploited the most value over the month, followed by the $7.6 million worth of flash loan-based exploits.

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The new year is a fresh start for malicious actors in the crypto space and 2023 won’t likely see a slowdown in scams,