Decentralized Crypto Exchange Curve Warns of ‘Exploit’ (1)

One of crypto’s top decentralized exchanges said on Sunday that it had been “exploited” as a result of a vulnerability in a programming language used in parts of its platform.

Curve Finance, like other decentralized finance projects in crypto, relies on different kinds of software built on top of blockchain technology.

A glitch in a particular version of Vyper, a programming language similar to Python and widely used in DeFi applications, led to an exploit targeting a “malfunctioning reentrancy lock,” Curve said in a tweet from their official account.

The price of CRV, the native token of Curve Finance, …