[Garden Finance Hacked, Losses Estimated at $450,000 USDT] According to a report by Cointelegraph, the cross-chain bridging and atomic swap protocol Garden Finance temporarily took its application offline on July 27 after detecting abnormal activity. Blockchain security firm Blockaid revealed that the attacker exploited a vulnerability in Garden Finance's HTLC contract, stealing approximately $450,000 USDT across four networks: Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Smart Chain.