Ledger says all confirmed cases tied to its October 9 fund-draining investigation involve Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis, which has halted hardware-wallet sales.

The reserve gap is about 603 BTC. Liquid says peg-outs require full backing and completed security reviews before they can restart.

The flaw was fixed in xrpld 3.4.1 on Sept. 25. Developers found no evidence it was exploited on a public network.

The company says it found no matching login record. A researcher found the fake migration site was built to collect wallet recovery phrases.

The transactions used valid account authorizations, but BlockSec says they do not establish whether the wallet owner knowingly approved the transfers.

Vitalik Buterin said the risk from AI-accelerated math is real but pointed it at lattices rather than elliptic curves. A former Ethereum Foundation researcher said bunker mode would not help if the curves actually broke

The exposed balance has risen by 222,000 BTC since May, while total Bitcoin supply grew by 64,000 BTC.

His personal warning about an AI-assisted cryptographic break drew pushback from Ledger’s CTO, who said a mass migration could cause costly mistakes.

The investigator links his undercover work to a 442,000 USDT freeze after identifying a cluster he tied to Bybit and valued at more than $12 million.

Active contracts can still run and renew, while a new BoLD guard could delay unconfirmed withdrawals if contradictory proofs are accepted.