According to a report by TechFlow on December 29, following a hack that cost approximately $3.9 million, Flow's validators decided to roll back the network's transaction ledger to its pre-attack state, a move that has drawn strong criticism from cross-chain bridge operators.
Alex Smirnov, co-founder of the cross-chain bridge service deBridge, stated that the Flow team's decision to roll back without prior consultation with key partners could unfairly impact legitimate users. Smirnov pointed out that the rollback would not affect attackers who had already transferred assets out of the network, but would instead harm the interests of honest participants. Interoperability providers like deBridge and LayerZero recommend a hard fork approach to patch vulnerabilities and lock exploited funds, rather than completely erasing the ledger.
