BlockBeats reported on July 5th that blockchain security company Hexens disclosed a critical vulnerability discovered in the Aptos Move virtual machine in February of this year, which could theoretically jeopardize approximately $70 billion in crypto assets. However, the Aptos team completed a mainnet patch within hours of the vulnerability's disclosure, preventing any user losses.

Hexens stated that the vulnerability stems from a "stale-cache" issue in the Move virtual machine, which can lead to type confusion and allow attackers to gain critical permissions such as stablecoin minting, cross-chain bridges, and DeFi protocols. In simulation tests, the research team achieved an attack success rate of approximately 90% using only a server environment costing around $3,000, without needing to verify node permissions or internal access permissions.

Aptos responded that it quickly fixed the vulnerability after receiving the report through its bug bounty program, and believes that the vulnerability has extremely low exploitability in a real network environment and will not have any actual impact on users or funds.

Hexens believes that if the vulnerability is maliciously exploited, the risks may not be limited to the Aptos ecosystem, but could also affect infrastructure such as cross-chain bridges, stablecoins, and centralized exchanges. Independent security firm Grego AI estimates that approximately $250 million in TVL on the Aptos chain will be directly affected, while the overall theoretical risk exposure could reach as high as approximately $70 billion.

According to BlockBeats, on July 5th, Onchain Lens monitoring revealed that the address "9oxDc" sold 8.06 million ANSEM tokens at a price of $974.81 per ANSEM approximately 17 days ago. At that time, the corresponding project market value was approximately $54,000 to $134,000.

With the price of ANSEM surging, this batch of tokens is now worth approximately $2.39 million. At the current price, the trader missed out on a potential profit of approximately $2.389 million by selling too early.

According to BlockBeats, on July 5th, monitoring by OnchainLens showed that the whale address "0x2117" had its 40x leveraged Bitcoin short position partially liquidated four times in the past 24 hours. A total of 97.99 BTC, worth approximately $6.18 million, were liquidated, resulting in a cumulative loss of approximately $298,800.

Nevertheless, the trader currently holds a 40x leveraged short position of 67.98 BTC (approximately $4.26 million), with an unrealized loss of approximately $179,200. Its liquidation price is only about $902 higher than the current BTC market price.