DeFi lending protocol Compound will stay exercise for four illiquid cryptocurrencies on its platform.

On Oct. 25, the Compound DAO passed Proposal 131 which called for a stay in offer for ZRX, MKR, BAT and YFI on Compound v3.

The inducement on the support of this proposal used to be the Mango Markets exploit earlier this month, by which an attacker drained better than $100 million from the Solana-powered DEX. The exploiter went on to describe the attack as a “highly winning buying and selling technique” after he manipulated the value of MNGO by taking profit of its low liquidity.

While Compound believes a equal attack on its have platform is a ways less seemingly given that loans are required to be over-collateralized, the DeFi protocol would favor to err on the facet of warning.

The removal of these used to be proposed as a pains mitigation step in a forum dialogue final week after assessing the tokens’ low liquidity profiles.

“Glossy borrows against these resources are no longer more seemingly to be sizable in size in the conclude to term in comparison with the tail pains they carry to the market,” said Kirk Hutchison, founding father of the Volt Protocol, in the forum dialogue.

Proposal 131 used to be passed with ninety nine.9% of voters in favor, including Compound CEO Robert Leshner.

“Even supposing code is guidelines, he [Mango Markets exploiter] entirely violated the expectation of the protocol, the users, the neighborhood,” said Robert Leshner on The Cutting Block final week.

“I specialize in one share of him is correct, in that, , every protocol has to tackle the pains parameters that some dusky hat is gonna attempt to exploit it. And it’s a broad gather up name for every DeFi venture on each blockchain to rob this 2d as a gather up name,” he added.