tBTC Bridge Resumes Onchain, but Aave's $120 Million Reserve Stays Frozen

Threshold Network’s tBTC bridge resumed onchain Nov. 8 after nine days offline, but about $120 million in tBTC reserves on Aave remain frozen, restricting new deposits and borrowing against the token. Threshold paused new Bitcoin deposits, tBTC minting and redemption requests Oct. 30 while node operators patched a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that could let remote attackers run code on unpatched servers. Threshold said it had found no evidence that tBTC nodes were exploited. Patched operators are reconnecting, and Threshold expects pending redemption requests to be processed as more nodes come online.