BREAKING: Shibarium Restored—Inside the Major Bridge Exploit That Shook Shiba Inu

The Shiba Inu development team has announced the restoration of Shibarium following one of its most severe challenges to ￰0￱ network was targeted through a sophisticated bridge exploit that disrupted operations and threatened user ￰1￱ a nonstop ten-day recovery effort, developers reported that security had been reinforced and assets ￰2￱ team has confirmed that preventive measures have now been implemented to protect the ecosystem from future ￰3￱ Efforts and Security Enhancements According to lead developer Kaal Dhairya, the exploit was carried out through three fake checkpoints submitted to Shibarium’s Ethereum ￰4￱ manipulation halted Heimdall by breaking the link between its local and on-chain state.

Additionally, the attacker staked 4.6 million BONE tokens in an attempt to influence validator thresholds, creating a critical risk that required immediate ￰5￱ response, the Shiba Inu core team, alongside external partners, worked continuously for over ten ￰6￱ explained that developers worked late nights and weekends to restore ￰7￱ firm ￰8￱ was brought in as an independent reviewer to test and validate every ￰9￱ standups, emergency syncs, and continuous log reviews were conducted to ensure accuracy in all ￰10￱ were separated across infrastructure, validator operations, test networks, and ￰11￱ structure enabled parallel progress while maintaining strict ￰12￱ the system was stabilized, several long-term measures were ￰13￱ 100 contracts across Shibarium, ShibaSwap , and the Shiba Inu Metaverse were migrated to multi-signature ￰14￱ signing keys were rotated, and a blacklist feature was introduced to staking ￰15￱ measure was first tested on Devnet and Puppynet before deployment on ￰16￱ of the most notable outcomes was the rescue of the 4.6 million BONE tokens tied to the ￰17￱ the tokens were staked through a contract, the team executed a targeted recovery via the ￰18￱ correction restored ledger integrity and removed the malicious ￰19￱ delays were also extended from one checkpoint to around 30 checkpoints, giving developers more time to detect suspicious activity.

Roadmap, Plasma Bridge, and Infrastructure Upgrades The Shiba Inu team confirmed that checkpointing on Heimdall has been safely ￰20￱ stated that repairs were implemented through a staged process beginning in Devnet, then Puppynet, and finally deployed to ￰21￱ developers initially considered negotiating with the attacker, no response was received, and stolen assets were observed being ￰22￱ a result, the team chose not to deploy a bounty contract , citing operational ￰23￱ ahead, developers outlined a cautious roadmap for restoring full bridge functionality. A blacklist mechanism will be added to the Plasma Bridge to prevent malicious addresses from initiating ￰24￱ this system is fully in place, bridge operations will be gradually reintroduced.

Additionally, plans are underway to ensure fair compensation for affected users through phased withdrawals, transaction limits, and coordination with ￰25￱ will only be disclosed when it is safe to do ￰26￱ recovery, the team is focusing on long-term ￰27￱ has partnered with ￰28￱ to consolidate RPC services under a single endpoint, rpc. shibarium. shib. io, improving reliability and ￰29￱ are also updating documentation for node setup and validator operations to encourage broader participation and strengthen security across the ecosystem.