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Luna Classic (LUNC) pricing error leads to Mirror Protocol exploit

A mismatch in the reported price of underlying assets on synthetic assets DeFi platform Mirror Protocol has caused an ongoing exploit that has the potential to drain all of its funds. The exploit was observed on May 29 by governance participant ‘Mirroruser’ on the protocol’s forum. As of the time of writing, the mBTC, mDOT, mETH, and mGLXY synthetic asset pools on the protocol have lost almost all of their assets valued at over $2 million. Mirror allows trading of synthetic assets, such as stocks and cryptocurrency on the Terra and Terra Classic layer-1 blockchains, BNB Chain (BNB), and Ethereum (ETH). A pricing error for Luna Classic (LUNC) made the exploit possible. The remaining validators on Terra Classic reported that the price of LUNC ($0.000122) was the same as the newly launched LU...