Victim of ~$110K cross-chain exploit on Solana and Ethereum proposes white-hat bounty settlement, offering $10K to attacker if remaining funds returned within 48 hours.
Security & Exploits ·
The owners of drained wallets across Solana and Ethereum have posted an onchain message proposing a white-hat bounty settlement after losing approximately $110,000 in a cross-chain exploit. The victims are offering to let the attacker retain $10,000 worth of assets as a security bounty if the remaining funds are returned within 48 hours—specifically 541,187 MET tokens on Solana and 2.0 ETH on Ethereum mainnet.
The proposal conditions full resolution on the return of those assets by August 19, 2026, 12:00 UTC, after which the victims pledge to halt forensic tracking, withdraw exchange blacklist alerts, and cease law enforcement action. The message names multiple compromised addresses on both chains and provides return addresses along with a Telegram contact handle for coordination. The onchain record shows the message was transmitted from an Ethereum address on mainnet.
It remains unclear whether the attacker will respond to the offer, whether the assets remain accessible for return, or what technical vulnerability enabled the cross-chain drain. No independent confirmation of the exploit's scope or origin has emerged.