Blockstream’s Core Lightning just got caught with its pants down. AI audits found a pile of critical vulnerabilities, and now the devs are screaming at node runners to kill their nodes right now and wait for a patch. No money stolen yet, but with $313 million locked in the network, it’s a ticking time bomb.
▪️ AI scanning of CVEs found critical bugs in CLN — Calle, the maintainer, called it a 'critical vulnerability' (no shit, Sherlock)
▪️ Team is cooking signed binaries with a fix in the next 48 hours; full disclosure in two weeks (because why rush?)
▪️ No exploit in the wild yet, but nodes are told to disconnect from peers and refuse new channels — basically go dark
▪️ Murch (Bitcoin dev) confirmed: offline restart is the only safe move until the patch lands
▪️ Lightning Network capacity dropped 32% in eight months — from 5,891 BTC down to 3,998 BTC as of writing
📊 Locked in LN:
$313.5M📊 Capacity loss in 8 months:
-32%📊 Emergency fix timeline:
48 hoursIf you’re running a CLN node, shut it the f*ck down now. Patch in 48 hours, but even after that keep your eyes peeled — AI-driven attacks are becoming the new normal (remember Coldcard? ~2k BTC drained). BTC holders are safe, it’s just the layer 2. But if you’re using channels, one unpatched node can drain all liquidity. And yeah, trend is clear: AI finds bugs faster than devs can patch them.
💬 «Critical vulnerability in Core Lightning. Blockstream developers urge users to shut down CLN Lightning nodes right NOW!» — Calle (CLN maintainer)
🔮 AI found the hole in CLN before the hackers did. It’s only a matter of time before it finds one that can’t be patched in time.
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