According to news on April 12, Stacks ecological decentralized lending protocol Zest Protocol released a protocol security update and announced that the protocol has suspended operations until further notice. Users’ capital positions will not be affected until the protocol is restarted. Zest Protocol suffered an attack on April 11. The attacker artificially manipulated the value of the collateral by duplicating entries in the collateral list, and then withdrew far more STX than it should have in 5 lending operations. The Zest team immediately froze the contract after discovering the attack. stSTX funds were not affected. The attacker stole a total of 324,000 STX. This loss will be compensated by the Zest treasury.