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Morning Edition · Friday, August 21, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York
MANTRA Halts Its Entire Chain While Researchers Publish a Working Attack on Bridge Attestations
The real-world-asset network froze validators, endpoints and transfers without naming a cause, as a new proof-of-concept showed how an Allbridge cross-chain path could be made to credit deposits that never happened.
MANTRA Chain, a layer-1 network built for tokenizing real-world assets, halted validators and transactions while it investigates an incident. All endpoints are frozen, deposits and withdrawals through the chain are suspended, and the team h…
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