The official Fortnite Status account on X posted about the couch issue at 8:05 PM ET on November 2, which is literally five minutes after The Simpsons started last night. The couch gag saw poor Peely meet an unfortunate fate and brought an unsettling new meaning to Fortnite skin. Meanwhile, an account named Relishh on X believes the couch was disabled in-game because the interaction could lead to invincibility for players.
In a statement issued on Friday, Garden again said that user funds were safe and that the attack exploited one of its solvers. In the context of decentralized finance, a solver is typically an algorithm or trading agent that's relied on to execute transactions in the most efficient manner possible. Garden is a blockchain bridge protocol company, and its solvers earn a small profit for carrying out transactions between blockchains.