Chainlink updates its crypto bridge tech months after a $292 million hack at a rival exposed risks

Chainlink updates its crypto bridge tech months after a $292 million hack at a rival exposed risks

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Chainlink released Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) 2.0 on Monday, delivering a major upgrade to its communication and bridging infrastructure that lets different blockchains talk to each other and swap funds.

It lets companies add their own security checks to those transfers, with the launch coming five months after the year’s biggest DeFi hack, blamed on a bridge that relied on just one of those checks.

Chainlink is best known as an oracle network, feeding blockchains outside data such as asset prices that lending and trading apps depend on.

CCIP, first launched in 2023, extends into moving tokens and messages between chains.

Blockchains can’t communicate directly, so moving a token from one to another depends on a bridge.

The technology relies on verifiers, which confirm that a transaction really happened on the first chain before funds are released on the second.

If a verifier is fooled, an attacker can withdraw money that was never deposited.

That is what happened to Kelp DAO in April.

Attackers allegedly linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group drained about $292 million in rsETH from Kelp’s bridge, which ran on LayerZero, after tricking the single verifier the setup relied on.

LayerZero blamed Kelp for using one verifier instead of several, while Kelp said LayerZero staff had reviewed its setup and never objected.

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