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2022 has been the year of broken stablecoins as a myriad of dollar-pegged crypto assets depegged from their dollar value this year. On August 14, the Polkadot-based stablecoin alpaca usd (AUSD) dropped below a U.S. penny in value, only to bounce back to the $0.95 region hours later. Reports say that the Acala protocol was compromised and an attacker managed to mint 1.2 billion AUSD.<\/strong><\/p>\n Besides USDT<\/a>, USDC, DAI, and a couple of others, a number of stablecoins have had an awful year in terms of holding their U.S. dollar value. The depegging of terra usd (UST), now known as USTC, caused the entire Terra ecosystem to implode<\/a> and more than $40 billion evaporated from the crypto economy. Following that event, stablecoins like Waves\u2019 neutrino usd (USDN), Abracadabra\u2019s magic internet money (MIM), and Tron\u2019s USDD slipped below the $1 mark.<\/p>\n JUST IN: Hackers printed 1.2 billion $AUSD<\/a> on the Acala Network through an exploit.<\/p>\n \u2014 Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n While Terra\u2019s USTC never regained the $1 peg<\/a>, USDN, MIM, and USDD are all swapping for $0.99 per coin on August 14, 2022. However, on the same day, the Polkadot-based stablecoin alpaca USD (AUSD)<\/a> lost its peg. Data from coinmarketcap.com shows an all-time low of around $0.006383 per unit was recorded on Sunday. While writing this post at 3:15 p.m. (EST), AUSD\u2019s price had bounced back to the $0.95 range, but then it quickly slipped to $0.01165 in a matter of no time at all.<\/p>\n Polkadot\u2019s Acala Network tweeted about the issue just prior to the massive fluctuations in AUSD\u2019s value. \u201cWe have noticed a configuration issue of the Honzon protocol which affects AUSD,\u201d Acala Network\u2019s official Twitter page wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe are passing an urgent vote to pause operations on Acala, while we investigate and mitigate the issue. We will report back as we return to normal network operation,\u201d the team added.<\/p>\n Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) also tweeted<\/a> about the AUSD situation. CZ wrote:<\/p>\n ACALA protocol is currently compromised. Apparently, there was a bug in the iBTC\/AUSD pool and [the] attacker\u2019s wallet now holds over a billion AUSD. We are monitoring. (AUSD is not listed on Binance).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A flurry of other reports<\/a> say a hacker managed to mint 1.2 billion AUSD, which ultimately caused the stablecoin\u2019s depegging incident. Hours later, Acala confirmed that there was an error that resulted in the minting of large amounts of AUSD. \u201cWe have identified the issue as a misconfiguration of the iBTC\/AUSD liquidity pool (which went live earlier today) that resulted in error mints of a significant amount of AUSD,\u201d the team said<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n Acala says the \u201cmisconfiguration has since been rectified\u201d and the team managed to identify the wallets that received the erroneously minted AUSD tokens. Acala published this news at 7:59 a.m. (EST) and noted that an onchain investigation was underway.<\/p>\n \u201cPending Acala community collective governance decision on [the] resolution of the error minting, these erroneously minted AUSD remaining on Acala parachain along with these swapped Acala parachain native tokens have been transfer disabled,\u201d the team added<\/a>. Despite this news, AUSD\u2019s U.S. dollar value remains at $0.01159 per coin at 4:00 p.m. (EST), at least according to coinmarketcap.com\u2019s AUSD market data<\/a>.<\/p>\nPolkadot\u2019s AUSD Stablecoin Slides Well Below the $1 Parity<\/h2>\n
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Acala Protocol Says \u2018Misconfiguration\u2019 Resulted in \u2018Error Mints of a Significant Amount of AUSD\u2019<\/h2>\n