The post Balancer Community Submit Proposal for Reimbursement Distribution appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Two members of the Balancer protocol community submitted a proposal on Thursday outlining a distribution plan for a portion of the funds recovered from the protocol’s $116 million November exploit. About $28 million from the $116 million heist was recovered by white hat hackers, internal rescuers and StakeWise — an Ether (ETH) liquid staking platform.  However, the proposal covers only the $8 million recovered by white hat hackers and internal rescue teams, while the nearly $20 million retrieved by StakeWise will be distributed separately to its users. Balancer community proposal to distribute recovered funds. Source: Balancer The authors proposed that all reimbursements should be non-socialized, meaning that funds are distributed only to the specific liquidity pools that lost the funds and paid out on a pro-rata basis according to each holder’s share in the liquidity pool, represented by Balancer Pool Tokens (BPT). Reimbursements should also be paid in-kind, with victims of the hack receiving payment denominated in the tokens they lost to avoid price mismatches between different digital assets, according to the authors.  The Balancer hack was one of the “most sophisticated” attacks in 2025, according to Deddy Lavid, the CEO of blockchain cybersecurity company Cyvers, highlighting the need for crypto user safety as security threats continue to evolve. Related: Balancer makes last appeal to hacker behind $100M+ exploit Top blockchain security firms audited Balancer’s smart contracts, but the audits didn’t save it Balancer’s code has been audited 11 times by four different blockchain security companies, according to the platform’s GitHub page. Balancer code audits. Source: GitHub Despite the audit, the platform was still hacked, prompting some crypto users to question the value of audits and whether they actually ensure code safety. Balancer released a post-mortem report on Nov. 5 outlining the root cause of the hack: a sophisticated exploit… The post Balancer Community Submit Proposal for Reimbursement Distribution appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Two members of the Balancer protocol community submitted a proposal on Thursday outlining a distribution plan for a portion of the funds recovered from the protocol’s $116 million November exploit. About $28 million from the $116 million heist was recovered by white hat hackers, internal rescuers and StakeWise — an Ether (ETH) liquid staking platform.  However, the proposal covers only the $8 million recovered by white hat hackers and internal rescue teams, while the nearly $20 million retrieved by StakeWise will be distributed separately to its users. Balancer community proposal to distribute recovered funds. Source: Balancer The authors proposed that all reimbursements should be non-socialized, meaning that funds are distributed only to the specific liquidity pools that lost the funds and paid out on a pro-rata basis according to each holder’s share in the liquidity pool, represented by Balancer Pool Tokens (BPT). Reimbursements should also be paid in-kind, with victims of the hack receiving payment denominated in the tokens they lost to avoid price mismatches between different digital assets, according to the authors.  The Balancer hack was one of the “most sophisticated” attacks in 2025, according to Deddy Lavid, the CEO of blockchain cybersecurity company Cyvers, highlighting the need for crypto user safety as security threats continue to evolve. Related: Balancer makes last appeal to hacker behind $100M+ exploit Top blockchain security firms audited Balancer’s smart contracts, but the audits didn’t save it Balancer’s code has been audited 11 times by four different blockchain security companies, according to the platform’s GitHub page. Balancer code audits. Source: GitHub Despite the audit, the platform was still hacked, prompting some crypto users to question the value of audits and whether they actually ensure code safety. Balancer released a post-mortem report on Nov. 5 outlining the root cause of the hack: a sophisticated exploit…

Balancer Community Submit Proposal for Reimbursement Distribution

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Two members of the Balancer protocol community submitted a proposal on Thursday outlining a distribution plan for a portion of the funds recovered from the protocol’s $116 million November exploit.

About $28 million from the $116 million heist was recovered by white hat hackers, internal rescuers and StakeWise — an Ether (ETH) liquid staking platform. 

However, the proposal covers only the $8 million recovered by white hat hackers and internal rescue teams, while the nearly $20 million retrieved by StakeWise will be distributed separately to its users.

Balancer community proposal to distribute recovered funds. Source: Balancer

The authors proposed that all reimbursements should be non-socialized, meaning that funds are distributed only to the specific liquidity pools that lost the funds and paid out on a pro-rata basis according to each holder’s share in the liquidity pool, represented by Balancer Pool Tokens (BPT).

Reimbursements should also be paid in-kind, with victims of the hack receiving payment denominated in the tokens they lost to avoid price mismatches between different digital assets, according to the authors. 

The Balancer hack was one of the “most sophisticated” attacks in 2025, according to Deddy Lavid, the CEO of blockchain cybersecurity company Cyvers, highlighting the need for crypto user safety as security threats continue to evolve.

Related: Balancer makes last appeal to hacker behind $100M+ exploit

Top blockchain security firms audited Balancer’s smart contracts, but the audits didn’t save it

Balancer’s code has been audited 11 times by four different blockchain security companies, according to the platform’s GitHub page.

Balancer code audits. Source: GitHub

Despite the audit, the platform was still hacked, prompting some crypto users to question the value of audits and whether they actually ensure code safety.

Balancer released a post-mortem report on Nov. 5 outlining the root cause of the hack: a sophisticated exploit targeting a rounding function used in EXACT_OUT swaps within its Stable Pools.

The rounding function is designed to round down when token prices are input, but the attacker managed to manipulate the calculation so that values were rounded up instead.

The attacker combined this flaw with a batched swap — a single transaction containing multiple actions — to drain funds from Balancer’s pools.

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