# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-21T05:52:54.718Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-21/mantra-halts-its-entire-chain-while-researchers-publish-a-wo
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/mantra-price-falls-as-network-halts-transactions/), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/b1695da8a20796f08536ac2a065476bb7a55f9ae), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/5913cb958beaef18e6dd05da55952533a9f6d052), [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

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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