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Story: $RUNE Holders Hit Hard as THORChain Launches Recovery Portal After $10M Exploit

By Maheen Hernandez

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How the Exploit Worked. Four blockchain networks affected simultaneously. That's not a simple bug or a single smart…

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What the Recovery Portal Actually Does. The portal has one core job — let users cancel any malicious authorizations that got exploited…

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THORChain got hit. A $10 million exploit tore through the platform, leaving users across four separate blockchain networks scrambling to figure out what happened to their funds.

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The damage wasn't contained to one chain, which made the whole situation messier than a typical DeFi breach. Four networks. Unauthorized transactions. Real money gone.

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The scope here is worth sitting with for a second.

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Four blockchain networks affected simultaneously. That's not a simple bug or a single smart contract gone wrong — that kind of reach takes a sophisticated attack, one that found…

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That silence is frustrating. It's also pretty common in the immediate aftermath of a DeFi breach, when teams are still pulling logs and figuring out the full blast radius before…

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What THORChain did say, in effect, is: here's the portal, here's how to use it, go revoke your approvals and start your refund claim. Users are being walked through the steps.

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More context: THORChain Halts Trading After Suspected $10M Exploit Hits Multiple Chains

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The refund piece is separate. Affected users are being guided through a process to reclaim lost funds, though THORChain hasn't spelled out exactly how that restitution gets…

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DeFi platforms have faced this kind of situation before, and the response playbook is usually the same: move fast, launch a recovery tool, communicate through official channels,…

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That's not unique to THORChain. It's kind of the norm across the space. But it doesn't make it easier for the people waiting.

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Cross-chain platforms carry a specific kind of risk that single-chain protocols don't. Every additional network in the stack is another surface area for attackers to probe.

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More context: House Committee Pushes Trump to Staff CFTC Before CLARITY Act Stalls Crypto Oversight

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Users who were affected are being told to act fast. Use the portal. Revoke the approvals. Start the refund process. Don't wait.

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