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MANTRA Chain Halts Network After Unidentified Incident

The team says it will not bring the chain back online until internal engineers and external security partners verify the network is safe.

Overview

  • MANTRA suspended all validators, public endpoints, bridges and transactions, freezing on‑chain activity so users cannot move assets.
  • MANTRA confirmed late Thursday that block 17,449,398, produced at 11:13 pm UTC, is the network’s last block and no new blocks have been produced since.
  • Exchanges including Upbit paused deposits and withdrawals for the native token while centralized trading continues off‑chain and users were warned to avoid unverified recovery offers.
  • The project said engineering and external security teams are investigating and will not restart until a verified fix is in place, and reporting has mentioned an alleged exploit of an upstream dependency that is not independently confirmed.
  • The native token plunged to a record low near $0.00413 and trading volume spiked to roughly $24 million, and the halt raises questions for institutional partners and the pending Inveniam acquisition about disclosure, audits and remediation steps.