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On September 2nd, SlowMist Cosmic tweeted that, "It is unlikely that Venus was hacked. It is possible that a large whale was phished, leading to a loss of more than $27 million. The specific details are still being verified."

On September 2nd, as monitored by PeckShield, Venus Protocol users became victims of a phishing attack, losing approximately $27 million worth of cryptocurrencies. The victim approved a malicious transaction that granted token approval to the attacker's address (0x7fd8...202a) for asset transfer.

On September 2nd, Peter Kerstens, an advisor to the European Commission, informed The Block that the Commission is anticipated to put forward a Savings and Investment Alliance in December, and this alliance will incorporate tokenization elements. Kerstens stated that the tokenization of RWA is the next significant trend in cryptocurrency that regulators should give priority to.

On September 2nd, Starknet declared that the network has resumed its online status and is operating in full. The production of blocks has returned to normal. Most RPC providers have resumed their normal operations, and the remaining providers will also be upgraded soon. In order to restore services, transactions submitted between 2:23 and 4:36 UTC will not be processed. A reorg starting from block 1960612 has been submitted, which represents one hour of activity. All transactions starting from this block onwards will not appear on the chain and will need to be resubmitted. The team will conduct a detailed review next, including a full timeline, root causes, and long-term preventive measures.

On September 2nd, the cryptocurrency security platform Cyvers Alerts noticed a suspicious transaction amounting to $27 million on the Venus Protocol within the BNB network. As per the report, the Venus core pool controller was accessed by a malicious contract address, which subsequently withdrew assets valued at $27 million, including vUSDC, vETH, and other tokens.

On September 2nd, based on HTX market data, XVS witnessed a short-term decline of more than 7% and is currently trading at $5.95. Before this, according to market reports, the Venus Protocol came under attack and potentially lost $30 million.