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Crypto Exchange GMX Drained of Bitcoin, Ethereum in $40 Million Exploit
GMX, a cross-chain decentralized exchange specializing in perpetual futures trading, warned on Wednesday that an initial version of its platform was exploited. Roughly $40 million worth of tokens were siphoned from GMX V1, which debuted on the Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Arbitrum in 2021, to an unknown wallet, GMX said on X. In response, GMX V1 trading was disabled, alongside the minting and redeeming of GMX’s GLP token on Arbitrum and the layer-1 network Avalanche, GMX said. GMX was recently changing hands around $11.19, a nearly 21% drop over the past day, according to crypto data provider CoinGecko. GMX’s ... (full story)