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Osmosis freezes 22.65 BTC after Nomic forwarding bug compromises Bitcoin reserves

DevelopingCryptoSecurity incidentFirst tracked 2026-09-10Last changed 2026-09-11

Current outcome

Osmosis has frozen 22.65 allBTC via emergency upgrade; allBTC remains ~36% unbacked; governance proposal seeks to fill the 40 BTC shortfall.

Progress timeline

2 material updates
  1. #01
    Initial2026-09-10 08:50 · publication time

    Osmosis freezes 22.65 BTC after Nomic forwarding bug compromises Bitcoin reserves

    Osmosis froze 22.65 BTC after a flaw in Nomic's forwarding system enabled false-voucher minting of nBTC, leaving roughly 36% of allBTC's backing invalid and minting/redemption paused pending governance action.

    Source evidence: CryptoSlate

  2. #02
    Escalation2026-09-11 15:59 · publication time

    Osmosis took 74 days to discover 40-BTC Nomic exploit

    Newly disclosed: exploit occurred June 25; attacker used two bugs to mint 40.650602 BTC of unbacked nBTC; detection took 74 days; attacker cashed out ~$1M via 671 ETH to Tornado Cash; governance proposal would seize frozen 22.65 allBTC, cancel USDC.noble liquidity re-deployment, and pull Community Pool allBTC to fill the 40 BTC shortfall.

    State after update: Osmosis has frozen 22.65 allBTC via emergency upgrade; allBTC remains ~36% unbacked; governance proposal seeks to fill the 40 BTC shortfall.

    Source evidence: Protos

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