NEAR Intents Omni Exploit (October 2026)
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On October 1, 2026, the cross-chain swap protocol NEAR Intents suffered an approximately $3.8 million exploit attributed to a bug in how its Omni deposit-and-withdrawal infrastructure interacted with its core smart contract. The team paused deposits and withdrawals across 11 networks, said it patched the vulnerability within roughly an hour, and pledged full reimbursement to affected users while funds were allegedly moved through KuCoin and bridged into Bitcoin. This page covers only the exploit incident; it does not restate the trust score of the existing NEAR Intents protocol page.
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Timeline(4 events)
September 2026
NEAR Intents reportedly blocks a roughly $50 million swap attempt and freezes over $500,000 linked to the attacker behind a separate ~$387.5-388 million theft from exchange Bitget, days before NEAR Intents' own exploit.
CointelegraphOctober 2026
NEAR Intents halts service after an attacker drains approximately $3.8 million, attributed to a bug in the Omni deposit/withdrawal infrastructure's interaction with the core smart contract.
DecryptOctober 2026
NEAR Intents states the contract-side vulnerability has been patched, pledges full reimbursement, and reports the incident to law enforcement; deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks remain paused for roughly 12 additional hours.
DecryptOctober 2026
On-chain investigator ZachXBT reports the stolen funds were sent to KuCoin and bridged to Bitcoin; attacker identity remains unconfirmed.
Decrypt / CointelegraphDecision Log
- hash: 9CGRNPs3uK9EAp6k3HkQBKY4TCmRr5ZBWwogpw6AKqs5
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 5 of 7 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 10/2/2026, 5:04:54 PM
last updated: 10/2/2026, 6:10:03 PM
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