Dear readers, This newsletter is written with help from QuillAudits, a smart contract audit platform for dApps, DeFi and tokens. We brought in their expertise to understand the WinterMute Hack. On September 20, 2022, Wintermute Protocol was hacked, around $160 million were stolen by hackers. The exploit was unusual, as it wasn’t caused due by any smart-contract vulnerabilities, instead it was caused due to compromised private keys suspected to have been due to