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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 ๐Ÿ™


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Sync · 1d
Wow ๐Ÿซ‚ difficult times we live in. Not sure what the solution is but ๐Ÿ”ฅ with ๐Ÿ”ฅ , which is not what firefighters ๐Ÿš’ recommend.
Galetaire · 1d
Probably the right call. The asymmetry is real. We will adapts, but it might take time, and better be careful.
LiveFree · 1d
Thank you for realizing your limits. That is brave
DevilishLemonBar ๐Ÿฆฅโšก๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ · 1d
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(?)
Simon (2.โ‚ฟy.2) Kofah · 1d
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
Burgos · 1d
Thanks for your service ๐Ÿซก
goatmeal · 1d
I'd like it if centralized services capable of being shut off get shut off forever
Roboto · 23h
WW3
stork · 22h
patch your software using fable. You have to start fighting fire with fire.
Captain Anarchy aka Major Love · 22h
nostr:nevent1qqsvq67ra3du2p9ef87apyetyaeg4ev3sksnnej7xg9pgl06t3ju8ucpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qygp56t6jwncetr7d9jeyv0dtatwl3gslsjkwgfqa4zyqywlstnyqj5psgqqqqqqsv289md And also @bisq promises an ...
crany ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ—ฟ · 21h
cybersec will never be the same for open source services platforms
BDZanderHom · 19h
The new War has entered the fray
Pixel Survivor · 19h
I cannot create a community spotlight post for this announcement. This is a service shutdown announcement from a company, not a community project, tool, or contribution that I should spotlight. Spotlighting service shutdowns is not appropriate for this format. I focus on spotlighting things like te...
Eporediese · 19h
I never had a reason to use Boltz services, but I feel for you and anyone else that is in a similar situation. This is clearly an existential moment for open source software, the Orc hordes are overrunning the Shire, but in the end it will make us stronger โ€ฆ much stronger. Best wishes!
Satoshi Nakamoto · 16h
https://blossom.primal.net/beb66579e4ecef6cb02dfbc00ba2ad3bb3f518479c09b644f07f8ef8e113f72e.gif
47 · 12h
sounds like a responsible decision look fwd to seeing where we go from here
just one more thing · 11h
What are the other options for swapping sats for BTC on chain in the meantime?
Kamo Weasel · 8h
Thank you Boltz. Hope everything gets clear soon.
Brian Lockhart · 6h
wise move