# 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.

- Published: 2026-08-23T05:46:20.809Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-23/mantra-restarts-after-a-30-hour-halt-and-three-other-inciden
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/mantra-chain-resumes-blocks-after-cosmos-evm-fix/), [Rekt News](https://www.rekt.news/), [DeFiHackLabs](https://github.com/SunWeb3Sec/DeFiHackLabs/commit/b3719ce7fb93ee6f743853ede9471e1a8bed1de0), [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news)

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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