Garden Finance, a cross-chain bridge protocol, lost approximately $11 million after a compromised solver drained funds from the platform.
The protocol has offered a 10% bounty for the return of the stolen funds. It’s also seeking help understanding exactly how the exploit occurred.
What happened and why it matters
The attack targeted Garden Finance’s solver, essentially the market-maker mechanism that facilitates cross-chain transactions. Bridges move assets between different blockchains, and solvers are the middlemen that match and execute those trades.
Garden Finance has stated that user funds were not affected by the exploit, suggesting the vulnerability was isolated to the protocol’s operational infrastructure rather than user-deposited assets.
