QuickSwap’s GoDaddy Domain Hijack: How it Happened & Our Proposal to Restore the Community

On Friday, May 14th at approximately 12 am UTC, hijackers gained access to QuickSwap’s DNS through a vulnerability in GoDaddy — where QuickSwap’s domain was hosted. Before QuickSwap was able to regain control of our domain, several DEX users lost money by swapping through the platform. What follows is a more detailed explanation of what happened, what we’ve done to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again, and a governance proposal about whether QuickSwap should use funds from our treasury to issue an endowment to those who were affected.

Read the full article on our official blog here: https://blog.quickswap.exchange/posts/godaddy-domain-hijack-how-it-happened

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