Update: Boltz will stay disabled until further notice.
Our API remains available to process refunds cooperatively. In any case, unilateral refunds will work, as they do not depend on our infrastructure.
Our support team stays reachable.
To be clear: this is not a response to a single incident. Over the past months we have seen a steady rise in automated, AI-assisted probing of our infrastructure, and we have dealt with several exploits. Each was contained, but the pattern is clear: attackers now iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch. In the past few days alone we saw a drastic acceleration, and we do not believe this asymmetry will reverse. After reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.
What we are seeing is a major paradigm shift for Bitcoin services operating on an open source stack, and it needs careful analysis. Do not expect swap services to resume shortly.
To be explicit: no user funds were ever at risk. Boltz is non-custodial by design. And as a fully bootstrapped company, the losses were ours alone.
We don't know yet how things will continue from here, but we'll keep you posted as soon as we have had the time to catch our breath and make a decision 🙏
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Do you need any help from the community? E.g. targeted AI reviews of specific open source components?
These are wild times, smart to take a break and do things right, you got this.
this truly is end of an era. Boltz was an institution in this space, one that will be dearly missed. And one of the best teams out there.
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this a great approach. i think we will see many crowd sourced efforts to keep services we love running.
Oh boy….
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The old man is snoring! ⛈️
ACTCHUALLY firefighters do recommend. 😅
The Bull team is prioritizing their work to fix this.
There goes half of the Liquid/LN or LN swap based wallets. Oh, and Ark/Spark etc.
I think MiddlWay is also offline. The only one left is coinos(?)
What to use now for BTC - USDT swaps?
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Is this the centralizing force of AI vs the decentralized resistance of encryption?
Seems only big players with huge teams can survive on this emerging landscape
I'd like it if centralized services capable of being shut off get shut off forever
Spark não usa a Boltz.
Uma coisa que as pessoas deveriam aprender é que por mais que essas empresas pequenas e sem muitos fundos tenham boa vontade, elas não conseguem lidar com problemas complexos. Por isso foi uma burrice usar a Coldcard e isso vale também para as carteiras que usam a Boltz. Ficaram na mão. Já a Blitz que usa a infra da Spark, que é algo mais sólido, os swaps spark/lightning estão funcionando corretamente.
I think it's a state level attack at this point. I'm like 80% sure.
Oh great fucking Liquid network keeping user funds. Good thing I don't keep much on there anyway, and what little I kept is off now. Don't trust.
Peg out probably still works but that's a linger process.
Idk man do your own epistemology
Wallet of satoshi and minibits is still up from what I am seeing.
Boltz has provided an excellent service. Hoping they return stronger than ever.
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It'll blow your mind when you figure out what nostr relays are
LN receive / send on Aqua will be broken.
But main chain Bitcoin and Liquid will work (including BTC to Liquid swaps).
Yeaaaah, no. Afaik the only actual operator at the moment for spark is lightspark, if they go down, nothing will work on Blitz (even though, like Boltz, the spec is open).