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Decentralized finance protocol Convergence has confirmed it was hacked via a smart contract exploit on Aug. 1, with a hacker minting and selling $210 million in its native token, as well as stealing $2,000 in unclaimed staking rewards. According to a newly released post-mortem from Wireshark, the pseudonymous founder of the Convergence protocol, the hacker exploited the protocol’s CvxRewardDistributor contract, allowing them to mint and sell 58 million CVG tokens for approximately $210,000. The hacker also stole approximately $2,000 of unclaimed rewards from Convex, a DeFi protocol designed to…

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