NEAR Intents Omni Exploit October 2026 ($3.8M)
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On October 1, 2026, the NEAR Intents cross-chain swap protocol suffered a $3.8 million exploit caused by a bug in the interaction between its Omni deposit/withdrawal infrastructure and its NEAR smart contract. The vulnerability affected USDT on BNB Chain; stolen funds were routed through KuCoin and bridged to Bitcoin. The protocol patched the flaw within an hour, pledged full user compensation, subsequently identified the exploiter and issued a 48-hour return ultimatum, and ultimately confirmed full recovery of the stolen funds.
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Timeline(9 events)
29 September 2026
Bitget exchange suffered an approximately $387.5 million breach; Bitget CEO Gracy Chen alleged North Korean actors may have been responsible.
Decrypt29 September 2026
NEAR Intents blocked a $50 million swap attempt linked to the suspected Bitget hack perpetrators, freezing approximately $503,000.
Protos1 October 2026
NEAR Intents SHIELD security system flagged unusual activity; approximately $3.8 million in USDT drained from BSC hot wallet via Omni deposit/withdrawal vulnerability; services paused across 11 networks.
crypto.news1 October 2026
NEAR Intents co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed the vulnerability was patched within one hour; pledged full user compensation and formal post-mortem; incident reported to law enforcement.
crypto.news1 October 2026
NEAR token fell approximately 7.5–8.93%, reaching a low of roughly $4.76.
U.Today / TradingView2 October 2026
NEAR Intents GM Alex Shevchenko announced the exploiter had been identified and issued a 48-hour ultimatum to return funds, providing three recovery wallet addresses.
CoinTelegraph2 October 2026
Exploiter's address sent 1 BNB (and earlier 0.295 ETH) to a recovery wallet with a message offering cooperation and requesting Signal contact details.
KuCoin News2 October 2026
NEAR Intents confirmed full recovery of the $3.8 million in stolen funds; declared the incident resolved and halted further investigation.
PhemexDecision Log
- hash: AsiMgMWJkXGAkpuiRdjtA8oSQdLDc72d8zzEtqWjs3qj
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 7 of 13 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 10/2/2026, 5:07:52 PM
last updated: 10/2/2026, 6:10:03 PM
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