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NEAR Intents’ General Manager Says Part of the $3.8 Million Exploit Came Back in Monero

NEAR Intents’ General Manager Says Part of the $3.8 Million Exploit Came Back in Monero

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The attacker who drained about $3.8 million from NEAR Intents returned only part of it in Bitcoin, the protocol’s general manager said on Unchained . The rest came back in Monero (XMR) , and the team is still working out how to convert it. Alex Shevchenko , GM of NEAR Intents, walked through the return in an episode recorded Oct. 8. After the Oct. 1 exploit , his team tracked the stolen assets and believed the non-Bitcoin portion was still sitting on Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana. It was not.

Source: Unchained

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