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Alex Smirnov, co-founder of deBridge has pointed out some things he perceives as critical missteps as the Flow team continues to recover from the recent attack that hit its network.  As part of its efforts to recover, the Flow team has suggested a rollback, which has raised eyebrows as critics like Smirnov, whose company deBridge, is integrated with Flow, claimed to have received no communication or coordination from the Flow team. This is even though Flow claimed they were synchronizing with critical partners. Why is deBridge’s Smirnov concerned about Flow? According to Smirnov, the decision to roll back has been rushed and will likely result in financial damage far exceeding the impact of the original exploit. “A rollback introduces systemic issues that affect bridges, custodians, users, and counterparties who acted honestly during the affected window,” Smirnov explained before urging all Flow validators not to validate transactions on the rolled-back chain until some crucial questions are clearly answered. One of those questions is how Flow plans to handle doubled balances for users who bridged out of Flow during the rollback window and got their balances doubled because of the revert, and how users who bridged into Flow during the rollback window will be reimbursed. Another question he wants answers to is how ecosystem custodians like LayerZero will handle cases of transactions that were executed right inside the rollback window. Smirnov highlighted similar incidents, claiming they were handled far more professionally, with the hackers getting isolated without the need for a rollback. “Why is Flow taking a different approach?” He asked. “Who specifically made the decision to roll back the chain?” Smirnov has urged Flow validators to pause nodes and halt validation until clear remediation plans have been communicated by the team, ecosystem partners have been properly coordinated and security groups like…

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