K9 Finance Offers 5 ETH Bounty After Shibarium Exploit

K9 Finance Hunts Hacker With 5 ETH Reward After Shibarium Exploit

Written by Aaron S.,

Editor-In-Chief

Last Updated: September 15, 2025

Key Takeaways

K9 Finance is offering a 5 ETH bounty for the return of funds stolen in a $2.4 million Shibarium bridge exploit on September 13;
The bounty offer will decrease after 7 days and is valid for 30 days, and once accepted, the deal is final and cannot be canceled;
In response to the attack, staking functions were paused and funds secured in a multisig wallet, while law enforcement was notified.

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K9 Finance, a decentralized application built on Shiba Inu's SHIB $0.0000130 Layer-2 network Shibarium, has offered a 5 ETH ETH $4,492.45 bounty (valued at around $23,000) to the person responsible for a recent exploit.

The team is requesting the return of the stolen assets and has issued an on-chain message on September 15 outlining their offer.

The offer is available for 30 days, but starting one week from the announcement, the amount will begin to decrease gradually.

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The message emphasized that once the attacker accepts the agreement through a specific function, the deal becomes permanent and cannot be withdrawn by the project. K9 Finance stated that the process is final once the system registers the acceptance.

The breach took place on September 13. An attacker used a flash loan to acquire roughly 4.6 million BONE BONE $0.1885 tokens, which allowed them to gain majority control as a validator on the network.

This access was used to sign a malicious transaction that transferred around $2.4 million worth of digital assets from the Shibarium bridge.

Following the attack, the development team paused the staking and unstaking features to prevent further damage. They also transferred the protocol’s stake manager funds to a hardware wallet that is controlled through a multi-signature system.

Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhairya confirmed that law enforcement had been notified, but added that the team is also open to speaking with the attacker to resolve the issue. Dhairya explained that the main focus is on restoring system safety and protecting user holdings.

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