Garden Finance Goes Dark After Hackers Drain $450,000 - But Your Funds Are Safe

TLDR

• Garden Finance temporarily suspended its app after a solver’s off-chain database was breached
• Attackers drained roughly $450,000 in USDT across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Chain
• Garden says its HTLC smart contracts and user funds were not affected
• The stolen funds belonged to the compromised solver, not users
• Garden is working with zeroShadow, Quantstamp and Blockaid to trace and recover the funds

Garden Finance, a cross-chain bridge and atomic swap protocol, took its app offline on July 27 after a security breach hit one of its independent solvers.

🚨UPDATE: Garden Finance has shut down its app as a precaution, confirming that no user funds or smart contracts were affected. https://t.co/aFdBh4PWRV

- Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) July 27, 2026

The company said the attacker broke into the off-chain database of one solver in its network. The attacker then inserted fake transaction records, tricking the solver into releasing funds for swaps that had never actually been funded by the other side.

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