Garden

FORENSIC REPORT

Time of death: October 30, 2025. The specimen was discovered in acute distress across the Ethereum mainnet, exhibiting complete capital hemorrhage. Initial responders found the vault doors wide open—not breached, but unlocked by someone holding the actual key.

Cause of death analysis: Cryptographic key compromise. This is garden-variety catastrophe in the truest sense. The private keys, those sacred digital sequences that should exist nowhere but in the victim's secured infrastructure, had entered hostile territory. Whether through lateral movement, social engineering, or the classic scenario of a developer keeping backups in a Gmail draft—the pathology is identical. The attacker possessed unauthorized access to the master keys and liquidated approximately $10.8 million in assets with the casual efficiency of someone opening their own wallet.

Contributing factors: The telemetry suggests zero warning signs because there were no warning signs to detect. Private key compromise doesn't trigger alerts—it triggers transfers. This is the forensic equivalent of finding a body with no defensive wounds. The victim either didn't know the keys were compromised, or knew too late. No multisig, no timelocks, no circuit breakers. Just one key, one bad day, one complete extinction event.

Victim impact: $10.8 million in direct losses. For context, that's not a rounding error in traditional finance—that's a mid-sized company's annual budget, now irrigating someone else's accounts. Depositors, token holders, the project itself—all pronounced deceased at scene.

Pathologist's note: I've performed this autopsy 847 times. Same cause, same mechanism, same preventable outcome. The irony is exquisite: a project literally named 'Garden' failed to tend to its most critical resource. In nature, when you forget to lock the fence, the predators don't wait for an invitation. They simply enter. This specimen never had a chance.