Value keeps migrating to bridges and sidechains whose security rests on trusted operators rather than on costly verification, so large losses recur at that layer while the underlying settlement chains stay intact, and each incident narrows institutional tolerance for trusted-operator designs.
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Attackers returned 3,400 of the 4,000 bitcoin taken from the Liquid Network after exploiting the sidechain's federation-controlled withdrawal mechanism, leaving about $47 million outstanding. The failure sat entirely in the trusted-federation layer while bitcoin's base chain was untouched, exactly the loss-location split the thesis predicts.
Supporting · September 8, 2026
Attackers Return 3,400 of the 4,000 Bitcoin Taken From the Liquid Network
Attackers returned 3,400 of the 4,000 bitcoin taken from the Liquid Network after exploiting the sidechain's federation-controlled withdrawal mechanism, leaving about $47 million outstanding. The failure sat entirely in the trusted-federation layer while bitcoin's base chain was untouched, exactly the loss-location split the thesis predicts.
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