New Delhi: Leading cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute has lost $160 million in a hacking into its decentralised finance (DeFi) operation, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. In a tweet, company's founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said that they have been hacked for about $160 million in their DeFi operations. Cryptocurrency prices in India today (21 Sep 2022).

"Cefi (centralised finance) and OTC (over-the-counter) operations are not affected. We are solvent with twice over that amount in equity left," he posted. "If you have a MM agreement with Wintermute, your funds are safe. There will be a disruption in our services today and potentially for next few days and will get back to normal after," Gaevoy tweeted.

"Out of 90 assets that has been hacked only two have been for notional over $1 million (and none more than $2.5M), so there shouldn't be a major selloff of any sort. We will communicate with both affected teams asap," he further added.

Wintermute has Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pantera Capital and Fidelity's Avon among as its investors. Founded in 2017, Wintermute trades billions of dollars across crypto market daily as it provides liquidity across multiple venues.

Last week, it was named as the official DeFi market maker for the Tron network, reports CoinDesk. The platform suffered a big goof-up earlier this year when it sent $15 million of Optimism (OP) tokens to a wrong address. The tokens were eventually returned by the recipient.

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