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Morning Edition · Sunday, August 23, 2026Published at 1:46 AM EDT · New York
MANTRA Restarts After a 30-Hour Halt, and Three Other Incidents Show Where Losses Are Coming From
A shared Cosmos-EVM defect stopped one chain entirely, a payment processor lost $7.9 million to an operational compromise, and a bridge was drained twice through the same code path.
MANTRA Chain has resumed producing blocks after roughly 30 hours of complete halt, according to crypto.news. Validators deployed version 8.4.0 to fix a vulnerability in the Cosmos-EVM module, the component that gives Cosmos-based chains Eth…
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