Zentra Finance Hit by Exploit as ctUSD Reserve Is Drained on Citrea
TL;DR:
- An exploit targeting Zentra Finance’s ctUSD reserve on the Citrea network resulted in estimated losses of $143,000 on September 9th at 12:59:37 UTC.
- The platform paused all its lending markets and tracked the extracted funds to a specific wallet address.
- The team established a deadline until September 14th at 12:00 UTC to negotiate a bounty before undertaking legal and technical actions.
Lending protocol Zentra Finance confirmed the theft of approximately $143,000 from its ctUSD reserve on the Citrea mainnet following a security breach detected this week.
@ZentraFinance on @citrea_xyz hacked for $143K https://t.co/H5AqXrPk8q pic.twitter.com/vJofKI9ayR
- Defimon Alerts (@DefimonAlerts) September 11, 2026
The technical team immediately suspended lending operations after identifying the breach. Protocol information indicates that this preventive measure will remain in effect while fund traceability efforts are completed and a review of the affected infrastructure is conducted.
The attack was executed with precision on September 9th, 2026, at 12:59:37 UTC. According to Zentra Finance’s report, the transaction involved was identified on the blockchain under hash 0x9ac5df7e93988cd977e4b1b0564f559ec3096db2fe1abdd97e45c348e3074aa1, with no direct impact observed in the protocol’s other liquidity pools so far.
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