2026-06-12T13:27:36Z https://nostr.now Boltz https://nostr.now/npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44981752?s=280&v=4 https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44981752?s=280&v=4 https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspdfedn95jz2w290wxq8kny9jx3yxts8aevxxy0vaj4pmgregswdczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkk8nafk UPDATE ON THE FUTURE OF BOLTZ 📢<br/><br/>Over the past couple of months, AI-assisted attackers have been targeting Boltz with increasing frequency, intensity and sophistication. Several of these attacks succeeded, but because Boltz is non-custodial, user funds were never at risk. The entirety of the risk was ours, and as a result of the losses incurred, on August 3rd we made the difficult decision to suspend the service to prevent further damage.<br/><br/>While working on a plan to bring Boltz back over the past days, we had to accept one painful insight: as a bootstrapped five-person startup, we simply don&#39;t have the resources to withstand the current level of attacks in the long run.<br/><br/>Today, we are happy to announce that a group of veteran Bitcoiners came forward to help, bringing the capital and engineering power the project needs. They have agreed to take over Boltz and continue the service. Work to find and fix the vulnerabilities is already under way, with the goal of bringing swaps back as soon as possible.<br/><br/>As we want to give them the freedom to introduce themselves in their own time, we are not attaching any names today.<br/><br/>All original founders of Boltz have stepped down from the company, effective immediately. None of us will have any formal or authoritative role with the Boltz project going forward, and any future open-source participation by us is strictly on a voluntary basis.<br/><br/>We are grateful for the community&#39;s support all these years, for the patience and understanding of our integrators affected by the disruption of our service, and to everyone who reached out offering support over the past week.<br/><br/>It was a hell of a ride, and we are proud of our contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem.<br/><br/>Godspeed to the new Boltz team as they navigate these perilous times. We know Boltz is in good hands.<br/><br/>- Kilian, Michael &amp; Karl 2026-08-12T21:34:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8hp7s0n4u7cg0gdqc9qdey9tszkfgd5r0qt8qq2qjg7kxqqfvd3qzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkzvxrvm Update: Boltz will stay disabled until further notice.<br/><br/>Our API remains available to process refunds cooperatively. In any case, unilateral refunds will work, as they do not depend on our infrastructure.<br/><br/>Our support team stays reachable.<br/><br/>To be clear: this is not a response to a single incident. Over the past months we have seen a steady rise in automated, AI-assisted probing of our infrastructure, and we have dealt with several exploits. Each was contained, but the pattern is clear: attackers now iterate faster than a team our size can find and patch. In the past few days alone we saw a drastic acceleration, and we do not believe this asymmetry will reverse. After reviewing the results of our own recent security scans, we cannot responsibly re-enable Boltz swaps, especially as we are being actively targeted by what appear to be multiple resourceful groups while we race to deploy fixes.<br/><br/>What we are seeing is a major paradigm shift for Bitcoin services operating on an open source stack, and it needs careful analysis. Do not expect swap services to resume shortly.<br/><br/>To be explicit: no user funds were ever at risk. Boltz is non-custodial by design. And as a fully bootstrapped company, the losses were ours alone.<br/><br/>We don&#39;t know yet how things will continue from here, but we&#39;ll keep you posted as soon as we have had the time to catch our breath and make a decision 🙏<br/><br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqrphra0dj5rkvy6y86pnr39kpq5w6eaumma2z6v0kh8f67ejshlmqqs0pwe2ankgd5a6e4uaelhtwyhgu5sfpn8ayccx934t8uls54xjhfsyxm3s3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…m3s3</a></span> </div> Boltz Swap Services are currently unavailable until further notice. We can't give an ETA as of this time, but will provide an update once we know more 🙏 </blockquote> 2026-08-03T16:14:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0pwe2ankgd5a6e4uaelhtwyhgu5sfpn8ayccx934t8uls54xjhfszyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lk2h77d2 Boltz Swap Services are currently unavailable until further notice. We can&#39;t give an ETA as of this time, but will provide an update once we know more 🙏 2026-08-03T09:53:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfrquzv4wy5rqw6g9wtpqqeemrnfm5vk9zy56rmhj4c7snht2fqnczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkvywudd EVM swaps (USDT, USDC, TBTC, WBTC, RBTC) are currently disabled while we fix a bug in our EVM integration.<br/><br/>Lightning, Liquid and onchain BTC swaps are unaffected and running normally. No user funds are at risk.<br/><br/>Next update here once fully resolved 🙏 2026-08-01T12:15:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8qgm2gddt9f9hwl38ef5632d5fk80jgywj4t5e3hcusr8l5ur9mgzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lku9jey9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2pf4rvlscey37keqkqusg70ds940kf8p00nm4r3xfhvrj4nqfn8cjanj75'>nevent1q…nj75</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Send the swap id via support chat at boltz.exchange and we can check on it. 2026-06-13T14:58:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2kf3plkgg4zy88jcusg9ethfkqtmsfzfdzd0xgpz6m5g89taxppqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkcqrzx7 We released Boltz Web App v2.1.2 👊<br/><br/>Highlights:<br/>* add high level quote library<br/>* add WBTC on Arbitrum<br/>* fix BOLT12 invoice verification<br/><br/>For the full rundown, check out the release notes: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v2.1.2">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v2.1.2</a> 2026-05-24T07:05:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfj8e9rnym9g69xnx208nu8tpdcvfn7vexasynf6pxujmr5t7jk5szyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lky3eh49 We are temporarily pausing swaps to and from all non-Arbitrum USDT destinations due to a current USDT0 service interruption.<br/><br/>Any currently pending affected swaps will automatically complete once USDT0 resumes service.<br/><br/>More: <a href="https://nitter.net/USDT0_to/status/2045619091990561232">https://nitter.net/USDT0_to/status/2045619091990561232</a> 2026-04-18T23:21:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy78mm05v27mlk7aux9hes2lagghncp640q343w2l724n7n62mpsczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lknkkvex In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsttmcuul3turlpu73a8wj8s2ffam2n9av8h60yteph03mrhgchc5srh9mh9'>nevent1q…9mh9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; stuck HTLCs on intermediate routes<br/><br/>Understood but that&#39;s simply bad luck and unrelated to Boltz Mini and can happen with routing to any node.<br/><br/>&gt; 250,000 sats or less have their invoice issued by Boltz Mini (03e9c515...). At 250,001 sats and above, the invoice is issued by the main Boltz node (026165...).<br/><br/>Nice probing, but don&#39;t hardcode this anywhere please. It&#39;s dynamic and will change 🙏 <br/> 2026-04-13T07:34:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs26pmrvrfdrwlfzq29msgahsz5ahjv8eq6nkp2wdj2fvv6dcetadqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkzz02jp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyuyxzpuq5ufw8jusjtrwxsd7v2zx90y2dksaa645jknjt2fzk3xcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpsmfcc'>nevent1q…mfcc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Boltz Mini has a bunch of publicly announced channels and is decently well connected. You are the first to report an issue with it: <a href="https://amboss.space/node/03e9c5157126b8049ad235bdade8db97a473b5760b34781b8c870bd2ba34dbfcf8?section=Channels">https://amboss.space/node/03e9c5157126b8049ad235bdade8db97a473b5760b34781b8c870bd2ba34dbfcf8?section=Channels</a><br/><br/>It must be some limit you are applying locally to your routing that makes the payment fail. Anyhow let&#39;s continue debugging this in the support ticket you opened.<br/><br/>And regarding node selection: it&#39;s dynamic and we don&#39;t plan to expose this. The node we assign to a swap should always work for you and you shouldn&#39;t have to care which node. Let&#39;s figure out why you can&#39;t route to Boltz Mini. 2026-04-12T10:08:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9wtl2dtr0rhgrfqugcy6h83lk73jayc3634t3sexsmzczh58zmsgzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkrac7mj Exactly 7 years ago (on April 4, 2019) we launched Boltz as the world&#39;s first easy-to-use and non-custodial Bitcoin Bridge between Bitcoin and the Lightning Network 🚀<br/><br/>Look at this beauty 🥹<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/announcing-the-first-boltz-release-6cb630701432">https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/announcing-the-first-boltz-release-6cb630701432</a> 2026-04-04T14:27:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstmyuyq8mxysh9ydmf704swjl4yzy7aes2npaq73fhv979g653nzgzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lk0382mw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstu9vejfak25j7fwfzmrrcphyv79amc0svmeruyh4fqe4rlrem88gh0qcf0'>nevent1q…qcf0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>? 2026-03-18T17:11:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp4wznfgm5n3ap32agcaukajyz3wuwmw5l3kzgl2nzw3zlaxwpydczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkh82ql7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxgz79rxluq7y257xxtwu0gey9g699x7987rztxef26p7aaw67cdcr85es9'>nevent1q…5es9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Absolutely would love to. Reason is Liquid UDST is still to be integrated into <a href="https://usdt0.to">https://usdt0.to</a> 2026-03-18T16:34:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszt35h33aukyeehu5hw4jffacye3qu8jc99ghaupv6e7kqt3le4agzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkr9608n We shipped a lil something today: USDT Swaps ⚡💵<br/><br/>Lightning ↔ USDT. No custody. No accounts. No KYC.<br/><br/>Move from sats to stablecoins in seconds, across a growing number of networks.<br/><br/>👉 <a href="http://beta.boltz.exchange">http://beta.boltz.exchange</a> 👈<br/><br/>Read the full announcement: <a href="https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-usdt-swaps-from-sats">https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-usdt-swaps-from-sats</a> 2026-03-18T16:19:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd3xre7y5a7njw0vd02xktcakyql4qlqwswlr0g3dehu284jlmr6qzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkuam86p 🚨 Mandatory Update Alert! 🚨<br/><br/>Please update Boltz BTCPay Plugin and Boltz Client to at least the below linked releases **before April 15th**!<br/><br/>Older versions will stop functioning at that date.<br/><br/>🤖 Boltz Client: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.11.1">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.11.1</a><br/>💚 Boltz BTCPay Plugin: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-btcpay-plugin/releases/tag/v2.2.20">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-btcpay-plugin/releases/tag/v2.2.20</a> 2026-03-06T14:36:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstta8nkhv33th7jfwj2cg7g7tfsx2r4phrth3nw8x6wyvz46zktlgzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkfr9ga2 Epic 😂<br/><br/>Who made this? Drop a reply if you know – we&#39;d love to credit where credit is due 🙏 <br/><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://blossom.primal.net/741a0f54ab58abe2c23ca4184b4811b95eebe3f38f56ee3074f91c2cd07172e4.mp4"></video> 2025-11-20T10:40:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrp6fxu6jnatsmne05fsw845twehermvkjsjv6t0ph0pesujxqu8szyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkppjmvh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9n8jrxagj972z9usr85jcxh2t3lle7dyatx5x87gsys4cphl0aaspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhggcfnza'>nevent1q…fnza</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Some temporary issues with the Tor network. Just tested, works. 2025-10-27T08:40:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqd5kksz07ync4egk6de0997r2yvzl6k8d3yuml6ummy0pml4y2tgzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkh7p7z9 ⚠️ Scheduled maintenance downtime for about 30 minutes later today at 20:00 UTC:<br/><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Boltz+Maintenance+Downtime&amp;iso=20251019T20&amp;p1=1440&amp;am=30">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Boltz+Maintenance+Downtime&amp;iso=20251019T20&amp;p1=1440&amp;am=30</a> 2025-10-19T16:57:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq5svngmxqlwnd34mnz4ylrys66nqx0kvqry8fesu0ya8hpvkertqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkuxm57c We just released Boltz Client 2.8.3 and Boltz BTCPay Plugin 2.2.5 🛠️<br/><br/>Highlights:<br/>* Add timeout to API Requests<br/>* Gracefully handle API unavailability<br/><br/>For the full rundown check the release notes: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.8.3">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-client/releases/tag/v2.8.3</a> &amp; <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-btcpay-plugin/releases/tag/v2.2.5">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-btcpay-plugin/releases/tag/v2.2.5</a> 2025-08-21T11:59:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2fl08myc6ldmrru8v3wmytkcsa0qhw0jf5j629em4gg59vdku26szyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lknhga75 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqgllhfdamyfdl6zthvqr9fryum4lazfszc5swelqgvt2f7rkd6yqpzemhxw309ucnjv3wxymrst338qhrww3hxumnw35dsna'>nevent1q…dsna</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>🫡 (even though we work hard to minimize trust in us) 2025-03-07T10:06:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfruttvkd8qw3rfm3lqfthvmktyz2wqvthe3k6yeq0c5jhc6k4ygczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkq40x5g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs24l2ft6hatngg8psvvq4rqygycvg45dnukmx4zdvh7cj62nz8xwcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcswt50e'>nevent1q…t50e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you! 2024-01-31T11:04:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2mqq5kh7xj50ehtvrhvgqfvkf3f5myxhkfwah9ksychcf5d5xysqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lk9eh5y7 Anyone looking to give dormant testnet coins meaning, drop em here 👇<br/><br/>tb1quq5mr47ld2p54pah7ahc6l38dp2kphfwnwchfz 2024-01-30T16:26:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspspm8lhhxssfw6hgkdgse7d7gtw3mvnpklw78xza8q9cdvrf6nkqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lk3d62mr Today we shipped Boltz Web App v1.2.0 🚢<br/><br/>- Automatically detect &amp; switch to Browser language<br/>- Add Chinese language localization<br/>- Improved refund file download as one simple step<br/>- Clickable min/max amounts<br/>- Improved behavior when jumping form landing page to /swap<br/>- Swap Box Emped version for iframes<br/>- Move important error messages into &#34;Create Atomic Swap&#34; button<br/>- Default to BTC denomination for new users<br/>- Many more fixes and improvements related to WebLN, LNURL, UI elements and more<br/><br/>For the full run down check the release notes: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v1.2.0">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v1.2.0</a> 2023-12-21T16:52:14Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswznxsn6rlu2cxt7m03e9zl4f5f0ngndezwu3wr6qhmhhr8k5nzjczyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lk8tjkf3 We just released Boltz Web App v1.1.1 🫡 <br/>- we now populate amounts in the swap box automatically based on the pasted lightning invoice<br/>- add pwa doc for <a href="https://boltz.app">https://boltz.app</a><br/>- several smaller bug fixes<br/><br/>For the full run down check the release notes: <a href="https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v1.1.1">https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-web-app/releases/tag/v1.1.1</a> 2023-10-11T12:18:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszgc93wnpu9k7hnc072snvzgcrskcjlsw7ph9jjqus7hud4gkq5rqzyqxrw867m9g8vcf5g05rx8ztvzpga4nmehh6595cldwwn4an9p0lkze2nx3 Today we are introducing our all-new web app:<br/><br/>👉 <a href="http://boltz.exchange">http://boltz.exchange</a> 👈<br/><br/>🏠 United Liquid &amp; mainchain swaps: one web app to swap them all<br/>⬆️ Increased Liquid swap limits: Now up to 0.1 BTC<br/>🥕 Swap to Taproot addresses: now supporting bech32m<br/>🧅 Enhanced privacy: Liquid swaps available via onion domain<br/>📱App Store censorship resistance: install as Progressive Web App<br/>🧮 Exact on-chain amounts: swap to pay with precision down to the satoshi<br/><br/>More: <a href="https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-our-new-boltz-web-app">https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-our-new-boltz-web-app</a> 2023-06-19T15:35:03Z