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Bug accidentally gives USD 90 million to users, founder begs them to return it
Updated On: 06 October, 2021 09:53 AM IST | San Francisco | IANS
"There are no admin controls or community tools to disable the COMP distribution; any changes to the protocol require a 7-day governance process to make their way into production," he added, indicating that no fix could take effect for a week
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About USD 90 million has mistakenly gone out to users of a popular decentralised-finance staking protocol Compound and the founder is begging users to voluntarily return the tokens.
These had mistakenly gone out to users after an upgrade gone epically wrong. Now, the founder is making a plea -- and issuing a few threats -- to incentivise the voluntary return of the platform's crypto tokens, reports CNBC.
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