
Zentra Postmortem: Contained Incident, Pending ctUSD Plan
Zentra says an accounting flaw removed 140,000 ctUSD and 30 USDC.e. Markets were paused, but recovery, compensation, adjustment, patch review, and restart remained pending.
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Zentra says an accounting flaw removed 140,000 ctUSD and 30 USDC.e. Markets were paused, but recovery, compensation, adjustment, patch review, and restart remained pending.

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