Garden Finance Shuts Down App After Solver Layer Breach Results in $450K Loss

Summary

Cross-chain aggregation protocol Garden Finance experienced a breach of its solver layer database, where the attacker forged transaction records causing the solver to misplace approximately $450,000 in funds across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Smart Chain. Core protocol smart contracts were no…

Key points

Exposes a significant security risk in the offline solver layer relied upon by DeFi protocols, independent of smart contract vulnerabilities.
Even with clean smart contract audits, solver layer database vulnerabilities can lead to substantial fund losses, reflecting the need for DeFi security to cover the entire stack.
Development teams must strengthen security protection and monitoring of solvers and offline components, while users should be aware of the multi-layered risks in cross-chain protocols.

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