Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 9:11 AM EDT · New York

MultiversX Restarts Its Mainnet After a Five-Day Halt, but Kraken Keeps EGLD Locked

A virtual-machine atomicity defect let an attacker create invalid state changes, and validators stopped producing blocks until a fix was tested on a shadow fork.

MultiversX resumed block production on September 24, about five days after validators paused the chain in response to an exploit attempt. The team says an attacker tried to abuse a virtual-machine-level atomicity defect, meaning operations…