Liquid Network: White-Hat Returns 3400 BTC

Liquid Network suffered a 3998.5 BTC ($316M) withdrawal by a white-hat hacker via the SideSwap PAK, who then returned 3400 BTC ($268M) after on-chain coordination, keeping 598.5 BTC ($47.2M) as bounty while exchanges paused LBTC flows. Bitcoin trades at $79265.15 inside Bollinger Bands with upper resistance at $80302.89 and lower support at $78970.53; the EMA50 at $79064.95 acts as immediate resistance while the EMA200 at $73761.78 provides deeper structural support, and with RSI(14) at 47.78 remaining neutral alongside a MACD death cross at -10.21, price action points to a likely retracement toward the 50-EMA before any continuation higher. This incident arrives as traders refine BTC price prediction models, monitor risks of crypto market crash scenarios, and assess AI industry impact on on-chain security protocols.