Decentralized exchange Waves hacked on the first day after beta testing

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The Daily turnover of the decentralized exchange (DEX) Waves reached 6 million dollars at the end of the beta testing platform. In an interview with representatives of the project said that the daily use of their DEX 90 000 traders and all you have created 330 000 new cryptocell. Alas, the official start of trading on the exchange was not without unfortunate events.

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Another hacking crypto currency exchange

The Success of DEX Waves were under a couple of reasons. First, the platform has very fast customer service. Second, any trader can issue a token on the blockchain Waves and immediately change it to a decentralized exchange. Finally, the standard identity verification to withdraw money here are optional and apply only in exceptional cases.

Unfortunately, the joy of the traders did not last long — after a long period of beta, which took a year and a half, the DEX page and official website hacked by hackers. As reported by CEO Waves Sasha Ivanov, the developers took several hours to regain control of the resource.

Someone just made a fake passport and gave it to the support team of our domain with the request to change the password. Then the hacker has the opportunity to take control of our website.

Despite the incident, Ivanov hopes that in the future, even the banks will want to run their own decentralized stock exchange with the release of Fiat tokens.

How does DEX Waves

To make transactions on the stock exchange, the users need the token Waves. We will remind, ICO Waves ended in 2016, and has brought to authors of $ 22 million. Tokens Waves are also used for work smartcontract on the blockchain of cryptocurrency that is very similar to the Ethereum blockchain.

Network project consists of more than 200 nodes. Two of them are under the control of the canadian company RewardMob, which sees DEX a key factor in attracting new customers. About it told Coindesk CEO RewardMob Todd Koch.

Now we don't have to worry about the regulation of currencies or the desire of some people to withdraw all their funds. Decentralized exchange allow you to trade directly with other market players. DEX was a powerful argument in our cooperation with the Waves.

Since the code for the selection of transactions is available, each node can work on its version «matchmaker» and earn tokens Waves (for transaction processing) similar to the miner. All transactions pass through a Central node Waves. Co-founder of a startup Eigenman Harbour Dean sees this as a threat to the centralization of the project.

Ivanov admits that the project still has room to grow, and its current policy is not up to the end corresponds to full decentralization.

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security Issues

Hacking is not only overshadowed the release of DEX, but also questioned the principle of operation of crypto Waves. The thing is that the entrance of the purse need to enter the seed-phrase for login. The speaker project has described how the vulnerability of Waves helped the crooks to learn hundreds of seed phrases from custom purses.

Our DNS server is under the control of the Registrar, so his defense is beyond our control. Now the security measures of the Registrar is also under question. We will do our best to the recent incident does not happen again.

Waves is not the first time faced with the challenges of cybersecurity. In 2017 the audit firm Kudelski Security has identified some vulnerability. For example, passwords cryptocell users were stored in a plain text file that could be read by anyone who has access to the file system.

Dean Eigenman do not see the future of Russian project.

The Level of development in such start-UPS are simply outrageous. I doubt that token exchanges can be any real value.

But despite all the obstacles, DEX Waves continues to hit new records. According to statistics, the company only July 23 trading volume of Bitcoins reached $ 1.59 million.

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