According to Adam Back, Bitcoin Core v30 includes security and robustness fixes, and calls to reject these updates constitute a social attack on Bitcoin. Source: Adam Back, X, Oct 12, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1977307450341720440 Back added that losing the social ability to make rational changes would be a far worse problem for Bitcoin, underscoring the need to adopt v30's security fixes. Source: Adam Back, X, Oct 12, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1977307450341720440 Based on Adam Back's statement about security fixes in v30, traders should track v30 release progress and node upgrade adoption as signals of protocol risk management before taking BTC exposure. Source: Adam Back, X, Oct 12, 2025, https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1977307450341720440

According to @PeckShieldAlert, the incident was a compromise of a user's personal wallet and is not related to the THORChain protocol, indicating no confirmed protocol-level exploit on THORChain at this time (source: x.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/1966409664008233379). For trading, this clarification means the event should be treated as user-side security risk rather than a protocol failure when assessing RUNE exposure and THORChain liquidity risk (source: x.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/1966409664008233379; reference: x.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/1966399712741016051).