Ronin Network (RON), an Ethereum-linked decentralized finance (DeFi) altcoin project developed by Axie Infinity creator Sky Mavis, has confirmed a major security breach in a recent blog post. With the news of the hack, the altcoin price collapsed.
Price fell drastically after historic hack on altcoin project
after Sky Mavis’ Ronin validator nodes, as well as Axie DAO validator nodes, were hijacked and drained by a malicious actor last week. It lost approximately $625 million, including 173,600 Ethereum tokens and 25.5 million USDC tokens.
This attack may be the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) hack in history, surpassing the $ 611 million Poly Network heist that took place last August, which we also covered in Cryptokoin.com news. The Ronin hacker managed to create fraudulent transactions with the help of compromised private keys. While Poly Network has managed to recover almost all of the stolen funds, it is still unclear how Ronin will handle the historic hacking incident. The address associated with the attacker indicates that he was in control of the vast majority of the stolen cryptocurrency.
With the news of the hack, the altcoin price fell sharply. RON, which was traded at $2.33 during the day, fell by about 30% to $1.65 after the attack was heard. According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of writing, RON was changing hands at $1,8022.
RON price daily chart / Source: CoinMarketCap What is Ronin (RON)?
Ronin (RON) is an EVM-based Blockchain for play-to-earn (P2E) games. The most popular game based on Ronin is Axie Infinity, a digital collectible game and one of the largest P2E games on the market. In its first month of operation on Ronin in July 2021, Axie experienced a 300% monthly increase in NFT trading volume, 180% monthly NFT trading and 131% increase in daily active warriors.
In its first nine months, Ronin had 250,000 unique daily active addresses, $5 billion in TVL, over 2 million wallet downloads and 15% of all NFT transactions in the market. DEX Katana is the second most popular decentralized exchange by weekly active users and allows users to exchange tokens on the Axie Infinity ecosystem.
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