token security

PinGo

2026-09-09 09:43:35

PinGo says it was hit by another attack as Gate pauses PINGO deposits

PinGo, a DePIN project on The Open Network (TON), said it has been hit by another network attack, according to an official statement cited by ChainCatcher. The team said the attacker has already sold part of the tokens involved in the incident. PinGo added that it has completed the consolidation of on-chain assets and is actively handling the security event. At the same time, Gate has temporarily suspended deposits for the PinGo token, PINGO. The team said it will continue to disclose follow-up information as the incident develops. Following the event, PINGO briefly posted a gain of as much as 70% and was last quoted at $0.03. No further details about the attack were disclosed in the statement provided in the news digest.

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MANTRA

2026-08-21 14:50:51

MANTRA Halts Its Layer 1 Chain, Points to Cosmos EVM Module as Cause

MANTRA froze its Layer 1 blockchain late on Aug. 20 after what the team described as an incident in the Cosmos EVM module of MANTRA Chain. All endpoints and transactions were halted, and the network was still offline as of Friday morning. About nine and a half hours after the first notice, the team said it had identified the root cause, contained the threat, and determined that the issue affected two MANTRA-managed wallet addresses. The company said it had no indication that user, exchange, or partner funds were impacted, and added that no user funds were exploited. The outage hit infrastructure positioned for regulated real-world asset settlement. MANTRA has said Securitize, the tokenization platform behind BlackRock’s BUIDL, joined its active validator set in May. The chain also hosts mantraUSD, which MANTRA says is backed by short-term U.S. Treasuries, as well as a Layer 2 that uses MANTRA’s security. The halt came while Inveniam Capital Partners was still working to complete its planned acquisition of the company. Market data showed the MANTRA token hit an all-time low shortly before the halt was disclosed. At the same time, the chain had relatively little onchain value at stake based on tracked DeFi TVL. MANTRA said it is testing a patched release on its DuKong testnet and coordinating a restart with validator partners, but has not committed to a restart time.

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