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An error on the Binance Oracle application has led to false reports of Venus Protocol’s hack, resulting in an 11.5% drop of XVS price. Brad Harrison, Head of Venus Labs, took to X on Dec. 10, 2023, to explain that reports of Venus Protocol‘s exploit are inaccurate as Binance Oracle, a decentralized app that helps smart contracts access data outside a blockchain, reported a wrong price “resulting in about $200,000 of borrows.” Some facts: Binance Oracle, which supports the asset of snBNB in the *isolated* pool reported a wrong price resulting in about $200k of borrows. This is the only reported issue. This user is associated with a Binance account. There's no issue with the core pool or otherwise. — Brad 🫀/acc (@bradherenow) December 10, 2023 Harrison noted that “no other pools were affected,” adding the Venus team will “look ahead to enhance the security on isolated pools by adding support for price resilience.” The state...

Oracles enable value, but they are also susceptible to value manipulation; co-founders of Cosmos-based Seda discuss their benefits and how to prevent pitfalls. The year 2022 was not a very good year for Cosmos and its vision of inter-block chain communications (IBC). The collapse of the Terra Luna ecosystem (the biggest protocol on Cosmos at the time), tension between co -founders and a fall in the token’s price all cast a shadow on its future prospects. That said, projects such as dYdX and cross- chain oracle protocol Seda continue to call the network home and are adamant about its IBC vision. Currently, Seda says it enables over 12 million data feeds across 24 networks. In an interview with Cointelegraph at EthCC Paris, Jasper de Gooijer and Peter Mitchell, co-founders of the Seda protocol (formerly known as Flux), discussed the importance of oracles in cross-chain bridges and how they protect the value they enable. Cointelegraph: How do oracles add value to IBC?  Jasper de Goo...