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How an Ethereum Bot Used Uniswap to Save $5.4 Million From Curve Exploit

A trading bot took advantage of an issue with the programming language Vyper to exploit liquidity pools on Curve Finance, resulting in a loss of $52 million. However, the bot returned $5.4 million of the stolen funds to Curve DAO CRV. The bot’s actions involved flash loans and arbitrage plays on Uniswap and Balancer.

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