Mantle migrates $2.5B portal from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP
The migration is the latest signal that bridge security, not throughput, is the binding constraint for institutional tokenised assets, with Mantle alone moving $2.5B into the CCIP stack.
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The migration is the latest signal that bridge security, not throughput, is the binding constraint for institutional tokenised assets, with Mantle alone moving $2.5B into the CCIP stack.
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A 20-year-old suspect's wallet moved $122.5M in crypto over 10 months via cross-chain swaps, the kind of laundering footprint Operation First Light 2026 was built to catch.
Bridge hacks and flash-loan drains are fading, but a single logic flaw in an AI-driven DeFi protocol can now cascade across six chains at once.
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The milestone matters less for the number than for what it signals: $4.1B in circulation is now moving natively across two dozen chains, not bridged.
The protocol is back online with every Asgard vault and keyshare re-verified, and native Monero swaps now in test as the next feature on the roadmap.
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Cross-chain infrastructure platform Squid has closed a $6 million funding round backed by Ripple and North Island…
The attack drained 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH, and 147K USDC — small next to April's $293M Kelp DAO hit, but it confirms Phemex's pattern read: bridge and cross-chain messaging rails, not smart contracts,…
It's a Tier-1 exchange swapping cross-chain rails — the kind of reference customer CCIP has been chasing since launch, and the first major venue to publicly deprecate LayerZero for it.
The capital flight — triggered by April's $292M Kelp DAO exploit — is reshaping the cross-chain bridge market, with Chainlink's CCIP picking up clients and scrutiny that LayerZero once dominated.
The pause and the missing post-mortem are the real story: cross-chain bridges have absorbed more than $2.8B in thefts since 2021, and Thorchain has not yet named the attack vector.
The switchover migrates over $3B in TVL onto Chainlink's CCIP after April's Kelp bridge drain exposed legacy cross-chain risk — and follows Coinbase's $7B CCIP migration last year.
Four protocols with over $3B in TVL have moved cross-chain rails to Chainlink's CCIP after a $292M exploit exposed how thin LayerZero's verifier configurations can run.
The $292M Kelp DAO exploit exposed a single-verifier setup LayerZero now admits should never have shipped — and a 3.5-year-old multisig incident the protocol kept quiet until Friday.
After weeks of blaming Kelp DAO, LayerZero took ownership of a 1-of-1 verifier config that turned into a single point of failure — and competitors are already collecting the refugee business.
A single verifier-path failure let a fraudulent cross-chain message slip through, and the knock-on withdrawal cascade is now reading as a stress test of DeFi contagion plumbing.
KelpDAO has migrated its rsETH token bridging infrastructure to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol…