Shiba Inu’s core contributors and the K9 Finance DAO have escalated their recovery campaign with an on-chain ultimatum to the Shibarium bridge exploiter, deploying a new bounty contract funded with 20 ETH and broadcasting the terms directly to the attacker via Ethereum Input Data Messages (IDM).

Shiba Inu Team Drops Final 20 ETH Deal

The latest IDM , sent on November 3, 2025 at 06:32 UTC from a K9 developer-labeled account, lays out a trustless path to return frozen KNINE tokens and claim the reward before the offer decays and then expires. “Dear Shibarium Bridge Hacker… New 20 ETH bounty to return stolen KNINE tokens,” the message reads, specifying the bounty contract address and the atomic settlement flow: “Settlement is atomic when we call recoverKnine(). KNINE is transferred back t

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