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$160 million gone. Wintermute, among the sharpest market-making funds in the space, woke up one September morning to find nine figures missing from a critical wallet. What caused the compromise? Bad randomness in a vanity address generator. The blackhat had simply replayed the search iteration from the beginning until they recreated the (private key, public address) pair. And then, poof! Millions gone into the ether. All for a couple leading zeroes on the wallet address? Seems … vain.If karmic justice is your thing, there’s also the story of the Indexed Finance exploiter who hacked $16 million in October 2021, then moved the stolen funds into an address starting with 0xba5ed… (based). Little did they know, that vanity address was subject to the same bad randomness bug that plagued Wintermute, and in September 2022 all that money was stolen yet again, flowing out to yet another hacker. No honor among thieves.What went so wrong for these wunderkind devs, and what can we learn?On the left...
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