MANTRA halted its chain Friday as a precaution while it investigates an unidentified incident. All endpoints and transactions are frozen. Deposits and withdrawals are down. This is a halt. It is not a confirmed hack.
MANTRA halted its chain Friday as a precaution while it investigates an unidentified incident. That is WuBlockchain. The team's status page says the same thing.
All endpoints and transactions are frozen. Deposits and withdrawals are down. No assets can move.
This is a halt. It is not a confirmed hack.
Wu writes that MANTRA, an RWA-focused Layer 1, froze all endpoints and transactions and has yet to determine the root cause or give a timeline for restoration.
The status page is the official last. "There has been an incident on MANTRA Chain. We have halted the chain while we are investigating this incident."
It stays halted as a precaution. Engineering and security teams are working with external partners. The chain will not resume until the team is confident it is safe.
A named drain is a different tape. Maya Protocol halted after a $1.7 million exploit. MANTRA has not printed an exploit or a drain figure.
The status page says exchange and ecosystem partners have been notified. Deposits and withdrawals for OM stay paused on affected venues until the chain resumes.
The incident is marked investigating. It affects public endpoints, validators, bridge migrate ops, and MANTRA-managed IBC relays.
No action is required from users, the team said. Use official MANTRA channels. Treat "recovery" messages as a scam risk.
Wu notes MANTRA raised $11 million, later launched a $108.8 million ecosystem fund, and counts Laser Digital and Brevan Howard Digital among partners. That is prior capital history. It is not today's incident.
Wu also notes OM fell about 90% in a short stretch in April 2025. That is last year's print. It is not Friday's stamp.
| Claim | Who said it | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Chain halted as a precaution on an unidentified incident | MANTRA status page; Wu | A confirmed hack |
| All endpoints and transactions frozen; deposits and withdrawals down | Wu; status page | A restore time |
| No assets can move while the investigation is on | MANTRA status page | A named drain |
| No root cause or restoration timeline | Wu | An exploit figure |
| OM deposits and withdrawals paused on affected venues | MANTRA status page | A TVL or live OM print |
The next dated stamp is the team's next status update. Neither a root cause nor a resume time is on this last. Live crypto is on prices.
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