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DeFi platform Summer Finance loses $6M in vault exploit

Losses totalling $8M kick off the week’s DeFi security news, while a bug on Aptos put “most assets across all chains” at risk.

DeFi drama: ENS governance battle, EF cuts and Gnosis reboot

Last week, the Ethereum Name Service DAO faced an attempt to “steal its treasury,” and the Ethereum Foundation announced a 20% staff cut.

The DAO behind notorious privacy protocol Tornado Cash has received a proposal that would replace key addresses with spoofed lookalikes.

Despite claiming to be a transparent alternative to traditional finance, a recent series of DeFi contagion events have stemmed from opacity.

A duo of hacks on old Aztec Network contracts, reportedly caused by “public input binding issues” has netted a total of $4M this week.