MayaChain halts network after $1.7M exploit

The size of the loss matters less than the mechanism: six chained bugs and a single 23-message transaction point to compounding logic flaws rather than one bad key or oracle. That distinction shapes how the halt and any restart get judged, since a patched contract is a different repair job than a hardened message path. The 89% token drop also tests how the wider cross-chain sector reads shared bridge and messaging risk. Whether the chain resumes with a credible post-mortem, and how CACAO liquidity behaves after, is the open question.