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Crypto users told to pull funds after Ethereum L2 bridge failure exposes rollup exit risk
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A warning by Ethereum L2 bridge Taiko has given rollup users a scenario they rarely plan for: a security incident in which the safest course of action was to withdraw funds before the bridge layer provided a full public explanation.
Key facts
- A separate forensic estimate from PeckShield initially placed losses at about $1.7 million and said that 1.99 million TAIKO, worth about $189.12K, had moved to MEXC in its post
- An Etherscan transaction showed 649,761.236201 USDC moving from Taiko: ERC20 Vault to Taiko Bridge Exploiter 1 on June 21 at 22:07:23 UTC
- Ethereum is -3.90% over the past 24 hours and currently sits at rank # 2 by market cap
- Subsequent updates from the project have indicated losses of roughly $2.2 million, with Taiko indicating that affected users' funds are expected to be reimbursed from the protocol treasury
Summary
01 Taiko warned users to withdraw funds after confirming a compromise in its chain state verification mechanism. 02 The breach put all Taiko bridges in question, because message proof validation determines whether assets can be released safely. 03 Taiko and exchanges still face unresolved recovery steps as investigators, councils, and code changes try to block reused forged messages. The network said in a security notice that it had confirmed a compromise of its chain state verification mechanism.