According to on-chain data, the attacker who stole funds on the Curve protocol has begun returning some of the stolen money to Alchemix Finance. In one of the transactions, the thief left a message suggesting that he was not returning the money out of fear of being found, but rather out of a desire not to ruin Alchemix’s project.
The Curve thief seems intent on returning the stolen funds
According to on-chain data, the Curve protocol attacker has begun to return some of the stolen funds to Alchemix Finance, which had been robbed of $13.66 million from its alETH-ETH pool.
After a test transaction of 1 alETH, the thief then transferred 1,000 alETH ($1.66 million) and 3,820 alETH via another transaction ($6.67 million).
After another test transaction of 1 alETH, he finally sent 1,000 ($1.84 million) and then 1,258 ETH ($2.32 million) to the Alchemix Finance protocol. All in all, the thief sent $12.487 million back to Alchemix.
History of outgoing transactions from the attacker’s wallet
In one of his transactions, the thief slipped in a rather surprising message, stating that he didn’t care about the money (Alchemix promised a reward equivalent to 10% of the stolen funds if the attacker returned the money) but simply didn’t want to “ruin the project”:
“I’ve seen some ridiculous opinions, so I want to make it clear that I’m paying you back not because you can find me, but because I don’t want to ruin your project, it may be a lot of money to a lot of people, but not to me, I’m smarter than all of you, m*rde!”
Although 2 protocols are still awaiting the return of their funds, Curve and Metronome, investors seem confident about the future of CRV, as evidenced by the token price, which jumped by just over 11% following the news. It is currently trading at around $0.6.
According to data from Lookonchain, Curve CEO Michael Egorov sold a total of 106 million CRV tokens in OTC, for a total of $42.41 million. Thanks to the transactions he made today, Egorov was able to repay a little more of his loan on Aave, which currently reports a health rate of 2.02.
