The Acala community has suggested burning tokens to aid the stablecoin’s return to dollar parity following this weekend’s attack. The recently passed community governance referendum has now been executed. 1,292,860,248 total erroneously minted aUSD have been returned to the honzon protocol and burned. Details in thread below ⤵ — Acala (@AcalaNetwork) August 16, 2022 Acala Might Carry Out a Coin Burn To change the value of an aUSD back to $1, the DeFi hub of Polkadot might burn some coins. Community member Dotverse suggested voting on whether to burn some of the coins in the aUSD stablecoin in a proposal posted on August 15. By returning the incorrectly created 1.3 billion aUSD to the Honzon protocol, the referendum would “essentially burn” the money upon success. Similarly, it would burn the remaining 4.2 million aUSD from the iBTC/aUSD reward pool. The suggestion states that this move would “help fix the error issue, restore [the] aUSD peg, and resume Acala activities.” The community has begun to support the coin burn. However, some people said they would like more information before making a choice. According to Bette7, a project participant, “additional trace[s] on more monies are underway” to support recovery choices. On August 14, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the decentralized finance network to profit by 1.3 billion aUSD ($1.3 billion). The attacker exchanged those tokens for different cryptocurrencies, inclu...
