The Block reports that BTCPay Server supporters are offering up to 3 BTC as a recovery bounty following a critical exploit. BTCPay stated that artificial intelligence may have been used to exploit the vulnerability, and the company credited Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team fund for reporting the issue.
If AI-assisted exploitation of a self-hosted payment tool is confirmed, that's a signal for anyone running their own crypto infrastructure: the cost of probing for vulnerabilities is dropping, so unattended or lightly-maintained services become higher-risk. Worth checking whether your own deployments (including anything on Avalanche or Base tooling) are patched promptly rather than left on old versions. The bounty response is a reasonable model, but it's a reaction to a breach, not a substitute for a hardened update cadence.
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