NEAR Intents GM: Part of $3.8M Exploit Returned in Monero

The return of funds in Monero rather than the original assets is the detail worth noting: the attacker's conversion forced the protocol to refill contracts from its own balance, meaning the loss was absorbed internally rather than simply reversed. That NEAR Intents is now working to convert the XMR back also signals how privacy-coin routing complicates recovery, even when a portion of stolen funds comes back. Whether the remainder is recovered, and how much of the refill is ultimately offset, is the open question.