While we were going about our life this past week, something incredible happened in the world of decentralised finance (DeFi). White hat hackers discovered a vulnerability on SushiSwap’s Minimal Initial Swap Offering (MISO) token launchpad platform. FYI: A white-hat hacker is an ethical computer hacker or a computer security expert who proactively find vulnerabilities in software to fix them before they can be exploited by malicious hackers. Source: Giphy Thankfully the vulnerability was patched as if it was exploited 190,000 ETH (worth ~S$786 million according to CoinGecko at the time of writing) could have been potentially stolen by malicious hackers. Here is a recount of the incident and an explainer on how safe DeFi protocols are. TL;DR: How a Potential SushiSwap Hack Was Prevented

• SushiSwap is a decentralised exchange (DEX) built on the Ethereum blockchain.
• If not for the work of white-hat hackers lead by samczsun, S$786 million could have been potentially stolen from

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