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SecurityLiquid printed unbacked L-BTC. Bitcoin did not break.
On 6 September 2026 a bug in Elements let unbacked L-BTC be minted and pegged out. About 3,996 BTC left the federation reserve. 3,400 came back the next day. The rest had not, as of the incident reports.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min read
SecurityCronos rolled back ~11,000 blocks after Tectonic. That is a validator choice, not finality.
On 30 August 2026 Cronos halted at block 90,907,150 and restored state to 90,896,188. About $111.2 million reversed on-chain; about $9.19 million had already left.EasyCryptoGuides · · 3 min readBlockchainA bridge is extra software, not a tunnel
A cross-chain bridge is a contract — or a committee — that watches one notebook and writes on another. Useful. Historically accident-prone. Here is the product map without a ranking of remaining holes.EasyCryptoGuides · · 5 min readSecurityThe Ronin hack was a bridge with too few keys, not Ethereum failing
Sky Mavis’s sidechain bridge did what a 5-of-9 scheme does when five keys are in the wrong hands. Ethereum mainnet kept producing blocks. The game’s on-ramp did not.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readSecurityWormhole was a bridge bug. Jump put the ETH back.
A signature-check failure on the Solana side of a cross-chain bridge printed IOUs that were not matched by ether on Ethereum. Users of the wrapped token got made whole by a company, not by maths.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readSecurity