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Cetus requested community support for a protocol upgrade to recover and redistribute $162 million in frozen assets from the exploit on its platform in May 2025, through an on-chain vote.
The Cetus protocol team acknowledged that previous reliance on audits and adoption of its smart contracts led to overconfidence, contributing to the success of the exploit on its platform in May 2025
The exploit on Cetus Protocol in May 2025 was caused by a bug in Cetus’s custom math library, not by a vulnerability in the Sui blockchain or its Move programming language.
The Sui Network pledged $10 million to strengthen ecosystem security in response to the Cetus Protocol exploit in May 2025
The Sui Network responded to the Cetus Protocol hack in May 2025 by implementing new security measures that promote shared accountability across its ecosystem.

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