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There's no reason to believe that other reputable concentrated liquidity dexes, like Ambient or Uniswap, are at risk from this exploit. (Though Kyber forks obviously are).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the theft significantly impacted the total value of assets locked on KyberSwap, plummeting to approximately $13.61 million from $84.9 million, as per Defillama <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/protocol\/kyberswap\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Kyber Network's native token, KNC, is down more than 2% in the reporting period to $<span class=\"holepunch holepunch-coin_price_usd\">0.72525 as of press time, according to <em>CryptoSlate's<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/kyber-network-crystal-v2\/\">data<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KyberSwap hacker has shown a willingness to negotiate after exploiting the decentralized exchange for around $45 million, according to on-chain messages. 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