Question 1

How was the Liquid Network's reserve shortfall covered?

Accepted Answer

Blockstream supplied the bitcoin, according to Liquid Federation board member Samson Mow, with deposits of 50 BTC on October 28 and 300 BTC plus a further 250 BTC on Monday restoring the 1:1 peg.

Question 2

What caused the September 2026 Liquid exploit?

Accepted Answer

A bug in a rangeproof verification cache in Elements, Liquid's underlying software, let an attacker create roughly 4,000 unbacked LBTC and withdraw real bitcoin through SideSwap's peg-out service; no private keys were compromised.

Question 3

What did Adam Back say about AI-suggested fixes?

Accepted Answer

Back urged developers to treat AI-suggested fixes "with suspicion," citing the "don't trust, verify" principle, and listed hardened peg-out keys in cold storage, disabled proof caches, and fail-closed consensus rules as Liquid's new defenses.

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Liquid restores 1:1 BTC backing as Adam Back warns on AI fixes

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Liquid restores 1:1 BTC backing as Adam Back warns on AI fixes

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