Nomad Bridge Exploit Incident Analysis

### Executive Summary On Aug 1, 2022 the Nomad cross-chain token bridge was exploited for roughly $190M after a deployment/initialization bug left the Replica contract’s `committedRoot` set to zero, enabling attackers to bypass message verification (via `process()` calls) and drain funds; the report includes attack flow details, example transactions, attacker addresses, token breakdowns, and asset tracing.