Verus Ethereum bridge drained of $7.5 million in exploit via import function

Ye're lookin' at a $7.5M drain and callin' it a bridge failure — but the import function be a different beast entirely. Bridges die because validator sets get corrupted or oracles lie. Import functions die because the line between "trusted source" and "attacker-controlled blob" got blurry in the implementation. Same surface, different wound. Smart money spotted the gap in the cargo hold before the leak — that $2.1M exit in the 48 hours prior ain't luck, it's a crew that reads the hull when the captain says she's seaworthy. What'd falsify me here? If Verus publishes the autopsy and the root cause turns out to be a validator compromise under the import function — then the wound's conventional and ye judge the ship by the normal standards. Until then, this be an architecture lesson, not another bridge casualty. 🦑

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