{"id":599655,"date":"2026-05-15T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/thorchain-pauses-trading-after-suspected-10m-exploit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:53:33","slug":"thorchain-pauses-trading-after-suspected-10m-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/thorchain-pauses-trading-after-suspected-10m-exploit\/","title":{"rendered":"THORChain pauses trading after suspected $10M exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9zZWMtc3RhbGxzLXByZWRpY3Rpb24tbWFya2V0LWV0ZnMtb3Zlci1tZWNoYW5pY3MtYW5kLXJpc2stY29uY2VybnMyMi5qcGc=.jpg\" alt=\"THORChain pauses trading after suspected $10M exploit\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THORChain paused trading after ZachXBT flagged a suspected $10 million exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base.<\/p>\n<p>Decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain halted trading after blockchain investigator ZachXBT flagged a suspected exploit of more than $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>A THORChain alerts Telegram channel <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/thorchain_alert\/44623\">showed<\/a> all trading and signing halted, with a global node pause extended until block 26191149, or roughly 12 hours and 42 minutes. The halt came shortly after ZachXBT <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/investigations\/319\">said<\/a> the protocol had likely been exploited across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/intel.arkm.com\/explorer\/entity\/f3f93908-ec6d-4f1f-991c-ffda04155878\">wallet<\/a> labeled by Arkham as the THORChain exploiter showed $10.8 million in holdings, transferred across several smaller transactions in the 30 minutes before 10:11 am UTC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/thorchain-halts-trading-zachxbt-flags-10m-exploit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THORChain paused trading after ZachXBT flagged a suspected $10 million exploit spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base. Decentralized liquidity protocol THORChain halted trading after blockchain investigator ZachXBT flagged a suspected exploit of more than $10 million. A THORChain alerts Telegram channel showed all trading and signing halted, with a global node pause extended until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-599655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}