Liquid Network Pauses Sidechain After 4,000 BTC Withdrawn from Reserves
Liquid Network disabled bridge nodes and paused operations after roughly 4,000 BTC left the federation wallet backing L-BTC.
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Liquid Network disabled bridge nodes and paused operations after roughly 4,000 BTC left the federation wallet backing L-BTC.

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