ATOMIQ JUST TOOK ALL BITCOIN SWAP ROUTES OFFLINE 🚨🟠🤖
On 20 August 2026 Atomiq said a small staff cannot fight the many AI-assisted attacks (attacks that use AI tools to find holes faster) hitting its systems. New swaps are off. 🛑
Atomiq is a swap app that moves native Bitcoin to other chains. Main-chain BTC and Lightning BTC (fast Bitcoin payments) sit on one side. Coins on Solana, Starknet, and Citrea sit on the other. 🔗
Trustless = the app does not hold the user’s coins. If the swap does not finish, the coins can come back. 🛡️
How a swap works ⚙️
1) Muqaddas’s coins lock in a contract
2) the other side must send real Bitcoin
3) the contract checks that Bitcoin payment
4) if the payment is proven, coins move. If not, Muqaddas gets a refund
User path right now
🔶 New swaps: off
🔷 Swaps already started: refund on the Atomiq app (about 1 day on-chain, about 5 days Lightning)
🔸 Coins already in a wallet: still the user’s coins
The team said user coins were not at risk. No coming back date yet. 📅
No full public report of what was hit. ⚠️
17 days ago Boltz paused for the same class of AI-speed attacks. That app is still down. A handover to a new crew is still in progress. 🧊
People who used Atomiq to move real BTC in and out of Solana, Starknet, or Citrea just lost that path.
ever had a swap freeze mid-way? 👇
#Bitcoin #Crypto #Binance #DeFi
On 20 August 2026 Atomiq said a small staff cannot fight the many AI-assisted attacks (attacks that use AI tools to find holes faster) hitting its systems. New swaps are off. 🛑
Atomiq is a swap app that moves native Bitcoin to other chains. Main-chain BTC and Lightning BTC (fast Bitcoin payments) sit on one side. Coins on Solana, Starknet, and Citrea sit on the other. 🔗
Trustless = the app does not hold the user’s coins. If the swap does not finish, the coins can come back. 🛡️
How a swap works ⚙️
1) Muqaddas’s coins lock in a contract
2) the other side must send real Bitcoin
3) the contract checks that Bitcoin payment
4) if the payment is proven, coins move. If not, Muqaddas gets a refund
User path right now
🔶 New swaps: off
🔷 Swaps already started: refund on the Atomiq app (about 1 day on-chain, about 5 days Lightning)
🔸 Coins already in a wallet: still the user’s coins
The team said user coins were not at risk. No coming back date yet. 📅
No full public report of what was hit. ⚠️
17 days ago Boltz paused for the same class of AI-speed attacks. That app is still down. A handover to a new crew is still in progress. 🧊
People who used Atomiq to move real BTC in and out of Solana, Starknet, or Citrea just lost that path.
ever had a swap freeze mid-way? 👇
#Bitcoin #Crypto #Binance #DeFi