Rootstock co-founder Sergio Lerner says bridge systems need mandatory withdrawal delays after Liquid’s reported peg-out mess showed how fast a validation bug can turn into real BTC losses. His fix: let time, not blind instant settlement, be the first line of defense.
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Liquid Network suffered a consensus bug that let an attacker mint invalid L-BTC, drain most of the BTC reserve, and then bargain with Blockstream on-chain. Some funds were returned, but the exploit exposed a brutal verification failure, not a key theft.
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Blockstream has launched a beta swap service for moving value between Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid as Boltz pauses swaps after attacks and an EVM bug. The timing is brutal, but the takeaway is clear: noncustodial doesn’t mean bulletproof.
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