Step Finance, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets shut down after January hack

Step Finance announced that, following a $30 million theft in late January, the project would be shutting down. Along with it, they will shut down SolanaFloor — a Solana-focused media project — and Remora Markets — a Solana-based tokenized stocks platform.

According to Step Finance, "we explored every possible path forward, including financing and acquisition opportunities. Unfortunately, we were unable to secure a viable outcome and have made the difficult decision to end all operations effective immediately."

In reply to Step Finance's announcement, crypto investor Mike Dudas claimed that the project had contacted him about bridge financing, but that Step had never responded to his request for more information about the hack. "i responded: 'would need to see the security post mortem before i could consider investing here' <crickets>"

YieldBlox lending pool drained of $10.2 million

A lending pool operated by YieldBlox on the Stellar blockchain was emptied of around $10.2 million in an oracle manipulation attack on the Reflector oracle supplying prices for the USTRY/USDC market. Reflector has said that there was no flaw with their oracle, and that market illiquidity caused the problem. "Reflector quoted correct prices. ... but it's impossible to quote adequate prices for a market fully handled by a single market-maker with almost zero trading activity."

The attacker was able to manipulate the oracle price to show that USTRY was priced at $100 (rather than its actual trading price of around $1.05). Then, they borrowed against the overvalued asset, withdrawing XLM and USDC priced at $10.2 million. However, around 48 million of the stolen XLM (~$7.2 million) were frozen.