BTCPay restricts remote access to LND nodes to prevent fund theft

On August 8th at 19:47 (UTC+8), the Bifrost liquidity pool was exploited by hackers to steal approximately 881150 DOTs worth around $720000 from the vDOT single coin pool, vASTR/ASTR, and vMANTA/MANTA pools. The stolen assets were deposited into HitBTC and flowed into Binance. Bifrost has submitted a freeze request to the exchange and cooperated with law enforcement to recover the assets. Bifrost has stopped offering liquidity mining rewards and conducted security checks, while vDOT maintains 1:1 full support.

Trader Killa analyzed that Bitcoin is in a narrow range of fluctuations. If it falls below $65300, it will fall back to test $62700. If it breaks through $65300, it will rise to $66900. Killa predicted the peak of the bull market in May 2025, shorted Bitcoin at $74688 in mid April, and turned long on June 5th.

According to on chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, in 2015, an ancient giant whale with an IC of 40000 ETH transferred MKR after seven years. The whale proposed 7020.84 MKR worth 5.81 million US dollars at an average price of 828.92 US dollars from September 2018 to May 2019. After holding for more than seven years, it transferred 3510.42 MKR worth 4.41 million US dollars to a new address for the first time four hours ago, and this part has already gained 1.506 million US dollars.

According to Cointelegraph, the BTCPay server has temporarily restricted public remote connections to Lightning Network nodes running LND software, allowing attackers to exploit the vulnerability to obtain credentials and transfer funds. BTCPay states that this restriction prevents external wallets such as Zeus from connecting through the BTCPay server domain. BTCPay stated that Lightning payments can continue and plans to restore remote access options when deemed secure.

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