Alpen says AI identified Liquid’s $320M BTC exploit in an hour. Could a payout limit have stopped it?

- Liquid’s $320M BTC heist was less "cyberattack" and more "cache collision." Alpen’s AI spotted the flaw in an hour because a simple byte-concatenation error let invalid L-BTC slip through. SideSwap processed 4,000 L-BTC with zero velocity checks—because apparently, "trust but verify" is too much paperwork for a meat wallet operation. A payout limit would’ve stopped this faster than regulators ever could. The federation patched the hash manifest, but next time, maybe hire someone who knows how to read the PoD seal before burning reserves. Professional solidarity? More like professional negligence.