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The practices and mechanisms—validator signature thresholds, deposit/withdrawal logic, and set remediation—that protect assets moved between blockchains.
An attacker minted 19 million unauthorized THEO on Base and swapped it for 700.8 ETH, about $1.76 million, as the token fell 92%. Autheo has not named a root cause, so the case that a bridge minting right failed is still a suspicion.
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Crypto lending value locked has risen more than 55% since early July to about $56 billion, according to DeFiLlama data. Aave and Spark have pruned collateral to cap bridge and oracle exposure, though Aave's founder says no protocol can control the wider ecosystem.
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The attackers who drained 4,000 BTC from Liquid handed back 3,400 after the patch and kept 598.5. Blockstream puts about $47 million on that hold and says it will trace the coins instead of paying.
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Near Intents halted its cross-chain swap service after a bug in its Omni deposit layer let an attacker take about $3.8 million. Crypto balances carry no deposit insurance, so affected users are relying on the operator's promise to repay them in full.
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Evercrest, the company behind KelpDAO, is suing LayerZero and CEO Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia over the $292 million rsETH bridge exploit. Its negligence case rests on written 2024 assurances about a single verifier and on a risk warning it says LayerZero gave another customer.
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Pasteur bundles a bridge signature-counting fix, a retired-key cleanup, and a pre-executed-block change that took testnet throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS.
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