{"id":76290,"date":"2023-03-28T09:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76290"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:34:31","slug":"thorchain-network-halts-after-credible-vulnerability-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/thorchain-network-halts-after-credible-vulnerability-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"THORChain network halts after credible vulnerability reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the multi-chain protocol THORChain halted the network due to credible reports of a potential vulnerability.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">**THORChain Globally Halted**<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ninerealms_cap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ninerealms_cap<\/a> and THORSec have received credible reports of a potential vulnerability affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THORChain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@THORChain<\/a>. Out of an abundance of caution, steps have been taken to halt THORChain globally. <\/p>\n<p>Stand by for more information.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pluto (9R) \u26a1\ufe0f?? (@Pluto9r) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pluto9r\/status\/1640553217539940352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Out of an abundance of caution, steps were taken to halt THORChain globally, the team member going by the handle Pluto (9R) said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project&#8217;s Twitter account confirmed that trading had been paused during the investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are claims of a potential vulnerability with a THORChain dependency that may affect THORChain.<br \/>Out of an abundance of caution, trading has been paused while an investigation is undertaken. <br \/>The validity of the claim is currently being assessed and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6a5NLAqefN\">https:\/\/t.co\/6a5NLAqefN<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 THORChain (@THORChain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THORChain\/status\/1640569760974008320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The statement said that an assessment of the claim&#8217;s validity is currently underway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the analyst, miners are producing blocks, but without transactions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-137-1024x200.png\" alt=\"image-137\" class=\"wp-image-202553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-137-1024x200.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-137-300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-137-768x150.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-137.png 1442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/viewblock.io\/thorchain\/blocks\">Viewblock.io<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The price of the RUNE token over the last 24 hours fell 4.8% to $1.33 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/thorchain\">CoinGecko<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The drop roughly aligned with market trends: Bitcoin fell 2.5% over this period, and the total cryptocurrency market cap declined by 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>The value of assets locked in the protocol stands at $113.8 million. Over the day the metric fell by 3.82% (<a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/Thorchain\">DeFi Llama<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On October 27, 2022, in the THORchain network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/thorchain-network-endures-a-prolonged-outage\">a major outage<\/a> occurred. The developers restored the protocol&#8217;s operation after about 20.5 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The project&#8217;s mainnet <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/thorchain-launches-mainnet-as-rune-climbs-11\">launched in June<\/a>. A month later the network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/thorchain-halts-operations-after-a-string-of-hacker-attacks\">halted operations<\/a> due to a series of hacker attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The THORChain multi-chain protocol developers halted the network due to credible reports of a potential vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1301,1750],"class_list":["post-76290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain-vulnerabilities","tag-thorchain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76292,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76290\/revisions\/76292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}