{"id":745595,"date":"2026-08-31T07:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cronos-halts-network-after-tectonic-exploit-involving-estimated-75m\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:45:25","slug":"cronos-halts-network-after-tectonic-exploit-involving-estimated-75m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cronos-halts-network-after-tectonic-exploit-involving-estimated-75m\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/08\/01M1AX3ZN7EESDX1ZF7WKP963R\/hi-transactions-stopped-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally.<\/p>\n<p>Cronos halted its blockchain after an exploit targeting decentralized lending protocol Tectonic involved an estimated $75 million, most of which remains on the Cronos network at the time of writing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Cronos <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CronosNetwork\/status\/2094072333434769703\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it identified an exploit in Tectonic and halted the network, promising updates. Tectonic separately <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TectonicFi\/status\/2094072821630799989\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> users not to interact with the protocol while it investigated. Neither project has confirmed the cause or loss, and no restart timeline had been announced at publication.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Weilin Li <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hklst4r\/status\/2094079327176466563\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the attacker exploited TONIC\u2019s 20% collateral factor and thin liquidity, pumping the governance token\u2019s price 100-fold within 20 minutes before borrowing other assets. Li described it as a \u201cMango-market style\u201d pump-and-borrow attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cronos halted its blockchain after an exploit targeting decentralized lending protocol Tectonic involved an estimated $75 million, most of which remains on the Cronos network at the time of writing.&nbsp; On Sunday, Cronos said it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}