This Solana-Based Decentralized Exchange Was Just Exploited – Here’s What Happened
Raydium, one of the largest decentralized exchanges (DEXes) on the Solana blockchain, has been exploited to the tune of over $2 million.
The protocol announced early Friday that an attacker had managed to overtake the organization’s “owner authority,” which offered them access to funds, and used it to drain Raydium’s liquidity pools.
In DeFi, a liquidity pool is a collection of user funds locked in a smart contract and accumulated to enable trading on a DEX. Liquidity pools help to maintain liquidity on a network by rewarding users who contribute assets to the pool.
According to crypto research company Nansen, the attacker wallet has received over $2.2 million worth of tokens, including $1.6 million in SOL, the native token of the Solana blockchain.
Prism, another DEX based on Solana, noted that an unauthorized user has access to the admin wallet and is draining assets from Raydium liquidity pools. The protocol asked users to withdraw their PRISM/USDC liquidity from Raydium, claiming that it has already done so. It said:
"There seems to be a wallet that is draining LP Pools from Raydium liquidity pools using admin wallet as a signer without having/burning LP tokens. We withdrew protocol provided PRISM/USDC liquidity from Raydium WITHDRAW YOUR PRISM/USDC LIQUIDITY FROM RAYDIUM."
Raydium is one of Solana’s largest decentralized finance protocols and is considered one of the cornerstones of the Solana DeFi ecosystem. As of now, there is over $31.7 million worth of assets locked on the protocol, according to data by DeFiLlama. The DEX had over $2.2 billion in TVL at its all-time high in mid-November 2021.
Following the hack, Raydium’s native token RAY took a hit, losing over 10% in a matter of minutes. The token is currently
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