The second-largest decentralized exchange on the newly released Base blockchain – RocketSwap – announced eliminating any existing high risks and vulnerabilities a day after sustaining a “brute force hack of the server” where the platform stored its private keys.
The RocketSwap team confirmed relinquishing minting rights, which is part of its recovery plan. In a new update, the protocol said it has retained only low-risk rights to allocate new pools. The locked initial liquidity and 80k tokens, on the other hand, have been extended for 1 year.
On August 14th, hackers stole $865,000 or 471 Ether from RocketSwap and bridged it from Base to Ethereum, which was flagged by blockchain security expert, PeckShield.
The entity behind the attack then generated 90 trillion tokens named “LoveRCKT” and proceeded to move them to Uniswap, along with 400 ETH.
The platform’s official statement on the attack read,
“A brute force hack of the server was detected. Due to the proxy contract linked to our farm contract, multiple high-risk permissions became vulnerable. This resulted in the unauthorized transfer of the farm’s assets. Immediate steps were taken to shut down the farm and halt further potential risks.”
The breach prompted RocketSwap to redeploy a new farm contract by dropping the proxy contract and open-sourcing it on-chain. As part of the emergency program, the DEX announced a new farm in a bid to advance the production reduction plan by 0.075 per block.
Among other things, RocketSwap also revealed its intention to call on the hackers to return the assets.
This was the second project on Coinbase-incubated layer 2 solutions, Base, to have suffered an attack.
Earlier this month, another DEX on Base called LeetSwap was drained off 342.5 ETH.
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