Regretfully, just several hours ago an attacker took advantage of some still unknown exploit in the LSP liquidity leasing flow in publsp and liquiditystr. The tldr is that the attacker managed to get some LSPs, including myself, to lease liquidity with some initial balance on the attacker's side but without paying the full amount for that pushed balance.
Through some small miracle I picked up on it relatively early on. I managed to get in touch with the LSPs that had active ads to help mitigate the impact of the exploit but, despite my best efforts, other LSPs have also lost funds in this attack.
To be honest, I think that's the part that hurts more than the funds I lost. Others trusted the project enough to give it a try but ultimately got burned by something I built. I'm gutted over the fact that some node runners have lost some of their hard earned sats, and I'm truly very sorry this happened.
I'm still bullish on the vision of more decentralized marketplaces over nostr, including one for Lightning liquidity. However, for the moment I'm too shaken by the events that took place that I'm going to step back for a while and figure out how to be better.
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