Blockstream Liquid网络因软件漏洞损失3.2亿美元

$320 million hack of the bitcoin linked liquid network, another dent to crypto's reputation. But luckily most of the money was returned to investors. Let's get the details from Bloomberg Intelligence senior crypto analyst Dushan Sherawat. He joins us for this week's edition of Money Rewired. I do want to start with that hack. It's just the latest in the space. If we think about, um, I don't know, vulnerability, perhaps when it comes to this space, in your view, what do we know about the details and what damage, if any, does it do to the ecosystem short term?

I mean, this is, uh, the biggest, uh, publicly disclosed crypto hack of 2026, $320 million. Um, absolutely. A big dent to the credibility of the infrastructure that holds up in this entire space. So what actually happened in this case was this wasn't a case of, you know, some hackers stealing funds away. It was actually a software bug in the code itself. And it happened in one of the entities called Blockstream, which is bullet proof technology.

So, you know whether the money's returned back or not. Apparently 90% of the money is being returned by white hackers. Uh, but it does the damage to the credibility of this phase, which you've seen over the last, you know, many years. Ironically, the technology underpinning all of this crypto stuff is getting better over time. But all these hacks obviously don't help. Um, so clearly a big hit to the confidence. But I think, uh, you know what's unique here?

What's important to note is this wasn't about customer funds being stolen. It was a software bug that created almost kind of fake Bitcoin, uh, which then got drawn away from the account. So, you know, software bugs. This is not an PhD style, uh, heist. This is more of a software causing problems in, uh, you know, what happened over the weekend?